2+ week, 1+ day ago  (467+ words) As the nation prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial, Americans are reflecting on the Founding generation. But too often, the Revolution is still framed as a story of great men: George Washington's army defeated the British at Yorktown, Thomas Jefferson drafted…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (973+ words) Baby!" Mrs. Jackson said excitedly upon seeing her beloved son. Baby's here, momma," the civil rights leader answered back. He introduced me as a journalist writing about what I'm trying to do here," but also as a friend." Upon hearing…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (262+ words) A "public option" for grocery stores, based on the proof of concept provided by the commissary model, could not only vastly improve food access; it could inject more competition into the broader grocery market and bring down food prices for…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (184+ words) Michael Javen Fortner, author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, is Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow and Director of the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College. He is…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (186+ words) I have been trying to figure out how to sum up the punishing experience we've all had over the last year-plus of watching what's happened to our country, explain what this magazine has tried to do about it, and lay…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (505+ words) There's more to Dickens, though, than misty-eyed sentiment. His was a subtle and muscular vision that recognized (and condemned) the sins of impoverished individuals as well as the collective guilt of society. Dickens gives us not only Oliver Twist but…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (408+ words) When I interviewed for a Washington Monthly internship in March, I was contemplating abandoning journalism, even though I hadn't finished journalism school. After completing a final summer newsroom stint at the 56-year-old magazine (assuming I was accepted), I'd find a…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (283+ words) These monopolies do not arise naturally: New York has poured hundreds of millions of public dollars into the infrastructure for Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, Madison Square Garden, and the Barclays Center. Critics defending market discipline are talking about a market…...

5+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (346+ words) When Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, one of his earliest declarations was that the United States would begin building ships "very fast, very soon." But in the ten months since his inauguration, the administration's actions have…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (490+ words) Thompson's athletic life'and the way it has fueled his professional success and shaped his personal life'is the focus of'The Running Ground, an engrossing, unconventional memoir.'The book'traces a serpentine course,'simultaneously a family history, an autobiography, an inspirational guide to…...