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Menstrual Classes + Mass Deportations = Peak Stupidity

2 days ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Bill Scher

“Policy experts and advocates of boosting the birthrate have been meeting with White House aides, sometimes handing over written proposals on ways to help or convince women to have more babies,” reported The New York Times.
The Abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Not About Politics

6 days ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Bill Scher

Pragmatism is a worthy principle in politics. If parties can’t win elections, they can’t shape policy. To win elections, parties need to build coalitions of base voters plus swing voters. Since issues that motivate base voters don’t always move swing voters, sometimes politicians need to emphasize issue positions with broad resonance and downplay those with narrower ideological appeal.
The Next Frontier of Plutocracy

1 week ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Bill Scher

First Elon Musk seized control of the federal bureaucracy and broke it. Then he commandeered the campaign of the conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and tanked it. Handing over the keys to our government and our democracy to oligarchs would appear to be a bad idea. Yet our elections may soon be owned lock, stock, and barrel by the mega-rich. That’s because last October, the Federal Election Commission failed to enforce a law regarding joint fund-raising committees.
Trump's Huge Tariff Exemption Grift

1 week ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Jonathan Alter

There’s an old saw: If you lay every economist end to end, they still won’t reach a conclusion. Not true. Every economist except for ex-con Peter Navarro, who was recently exposed as having invented an imaginary expert to bolster his research, concluded that President Trump’s now-paused tariff policy was not just wrong but idiotic.
Divided Democrats Should Unify Behind Trade Peace Over Trade War

1 week ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Bill Scher

Trade policy has a way of dividing political parties. Shifts towards liberalized or protectionist trade measures have disparate impacts on industries and regions, scrambling the usual partisan fault lines. For example, the last two Democratic presidents embraced freer trade over the concerns of party members.
A Fresh Look at Ted Kennedy’s Famous “Robert Bork’s America” Speech

1 week ago | washingtonmonthly.com | David Masciotra

Donald Trump’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions; doctors who offer reproductive health services to women could go to prison; Blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters; rogue police could break down citizens’ doors and bust into college dormitories in midnight raids; schoolchildren could not be taught evolution, Black history, or gay rights; writers, artists, and journalists would be censored at the whim of government; and the doors of the federal...
Ep. 16: A citizen's guide to resisting Trump w/ Timothy Noah

2 weeks ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Anne Kim |Garrett Epps

Washington Monthly Ep. 16: A citizen's guide to resisting Trump w/ Timothy Noah 00:00 / Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube There’s plenty that ordinary citizens can do to push back on the Trump regime. They can protest, they can support legal action, they can lobby elected officials, and, above all, they can stay informed. Co-hosts Anne Kim and Garrett Epps speak with journalist Timothy Noah about his recent piece for TNR on the tactics of successful...
Unscrambling the Price of Eggs

2 weeks ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Claire Kelloway

The fate of the nation, as we have all learned, hangs on the price of eggs. But have you noticed that the price of some eggs has risen much faster than others? In the past, if you went down to your farmers’ market and bought eggs laid by local free-range hens living under humane conditions, you had to pay a big premium.
How Susan Crawford Neutralized Attacks on Transgender Rights

2 weeks ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Bill Scher

One of the ads Donald Trump deployed to defeat Kamala Harris argued “Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you.” Since the November election, Democrats have been embroiled in an internal debate regarding transgender rights. Some, like California Governor Gavin Newsom, believe Democrats need to pivot rightward.
Donald Trump's Third-Term Enablers

3 weeks ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Garrett Epps

One of the mysteries of American life is why lawyers make so much money. My brother Gus, a veteran bankruptcy warrior, once told me it was because, as a class, we are willing to be so much more bored than most people. That explanation has a lot to say for itself. Lawyers spend many hours (billable, to be sure) poring over incomprehensibly verbose jargon printed in indecipherably tiny text.