He oriented his presidential campaign around lower- and middle-income Americans and placed rural communities squarely at the ...

The November/December issue of the Washington Monthly print magazine, "How the Democrats Can Go On Offense," is here.

Tim Wu’s "The Age of Extraction" argues that Big Tech’s dominance is squeezing businesses, distorting markets, and destabilizing democracy.

Yes, AI is disrupting entry-level work. But don’t mistake short-term chaos for collapse. The college wage premium still holds.

Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.

Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.

Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Instead of chasing MAGA-style virality, Democrats should lead the fight to reform the toxic online world politics now depends on.

In "The Second Estate," Boston College law professor Ray Madoff argues that America’s tax code has birthed a modern aristocracy.

In After the Spike, two economists make a provocative case that population decline could stall innovation and human progress.

We say taxes make citizens equal before the state. In practice, they divide them—between those whose income is tracked at the source and those whose wealth is invisible. Founded in 1969, ...