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America’s K-12 schools are failing students. Understanding the problem is the first step toward fixing it.
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5 Hard Truths Democrats Must Face on Education
Test scores are down, learning loss is real, and inequality is growing. Here are 5 truths Democrats must face on education.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
America’s K-12 schools are failing students. Understanding the problem is the first step toward fixing it.
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“The 2028 Race Has Begun. Here’s Who’s Winning.”
It’s my (I think) 9th annual @politico.com year-end presidential primary temp check
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It’s my (I think) 9th annual @politico.com year-end presidential primary temp check
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The 2028 Race Has Begun. Here’s Who’s Winning.
White House hopefuls in both parties are maneuvering for the post-Trump era. Here’s where they stand at the end of 2025.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“The 2028 Race Has Begun. Here’s Who’s Winning.”
It’s my (I think) 9th annual @politico.com year-end presidential primary temp check
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It’s my (I think) 9th annual @politico.com year-end presidential primary temp check
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Long-standing threats to an independent press are coming to a head. The Monthly needs your help more than ever to fight back.
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Don’t Let Independent Media Die
Long-standing threats to an independent press are coming to a head. The Monthly needs your help more than ever to fight back.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Long-standing threats to an independent press are coming to a head. The Monthly needs your help more than ever to fight back.
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What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters
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What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters
It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we w...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters
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The GOP’s pronatalist argument that reducing graduate education loan support will boost the birth rate isn’t looking so good, considering the damage likely to be done to the careers of those who **deliver babies for a living**
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The GOP War on Nurses
Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The GOP’s pronatalist argument that reducing graduate education loan support will boost the birth rate isn’t looking so good, considering the damage likely to be done to the careers of those who **deliver babies for a living**
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To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social
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The GOP War on Nurses
Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social
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Hoping those in NATO can evolve this alliance relationship & account for national strategic advantages. We talk a lot about sealift capacity w/my colleagues at the Hoover Institution. Here's one possible solution.
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Hoping those in NATO can evolve this alliance relationship & account for national strategic advantages. We talk a lot about sealift capacity w/my colleagues at the Hoover Institution. Here's one possible solution.
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NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
NATO's fixation on defense spending percentages overlooks Greece’s vast maritime power—and the capacity actually needed in a major war.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Here's my latest piece @washingtonmonthly.com
Hoping those in NATO can evolve this alliance relationship & account for national strategic advantages. We talk a lot about sealift capacity w/my colleagues at the Hoover Institution. Here's one possible solution.
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Hoping those in NATO can evolve this alliance relationship & account for national strategic advantages. We talk a lot about sealift capacity w/my colleagues at the Hoover Institution. Here's one possible solution.
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To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social
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The GOP War on Nurses
Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social
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The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
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NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
NATO's fixation on defense spending percentages overlooks Greece’s vast maritime power—and the capacity actually needed in a major war.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
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The president's uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great, writes @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
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Donald Trump’s Go-it-Alone America
Trump’s second term has turned radical individualism into doctrine—eroding America’s collective institutions, from health care to alliances.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The president's uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great, writes @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
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The riveting acting by @nickofferman.bsky.social and the rest of the cast makes Death By Lightning a wild ride, but the Netflix miniseries also offers a peek into why keeping the professional civil service is so important washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/19/d...
Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. Death by Lightning is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The riveting acting by @nickofferman.bsky.social and the rest of the cast makes Death By Lightning a wild ride, but the Netflix miniseries also offers a peek into why keeping the professional civil service is so important washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/19/d...
It’s a murderous December. Shocking slayings and the background of Orange Man's dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.
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Brown, Bondi Beach, and the Reiners: The Murderous December
Shocking slayings at Brown, Bondi Beach, and of the Reiners, plus the background music of Trump’s dysfunction, cast a pall over the holidays.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It’s a murderous December. Shocking slayings and the background of Orange Man's dysfunction cast a pall over the holidays.
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“‘Death By Lightning’ Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters”
My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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Death By Lightning Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters
Donald Trump wants to bring back the spoils system. Death by Lightning is an entertaining tale of why we should never do that.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“‘Death By Lightning’ Shows Why a Professional Civil Service Matters”
My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com
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My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
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What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
My qualms about Ken Burns' American Revolution series, which strangely fails to explain what made the Revolution revolutionary.
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Ken Burns's latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated. @jrakove.bsky.social
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What’s Wrong with The American Revolution by Ken Burns
Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ken Burns's latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated. @jrakove.bsky.social
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The government can only deliver for working people if it’s built to do so.
Great listen from @washingtonmonthly.com featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, author of our recent report laying out a progressive blueprint for fixing a risk-averse federal government and clearing barriers that slow action.
Great listen from @washingtonmonthly.com featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, author of our recent report laying out a progressive blueprint for fixing a risk-averse federal government and clearing barriers that slow action.
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. On our podcast, a former senior Biden official offers a blueprint to fix it. @rooseveltinstitute.org
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Government Is, in Fact, Broken
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The government can only deliver for working people if it’s built to do so.
Great listen from @washingtonmonthly.com featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, author of our recent report laying out a progressive blueprint for fixing a risk-averse federal government and clearing barriers that slow action.
Great listen from @washingtonmonthly.com featuring Hannah Garden-Monheit, author of our recent report laying out a progressive blueprint for fixing a risk-averse federal government and clearing barriers that slow action.
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. On our podcast, a former senior Biden official offers a blueprint to fix it. @rooseveltinstitute.org
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Government Is, in Fact, Broken
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. A former senior Biden official offers a progressive blueprint to fix it.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Government is slow, inefficient, and sclerotic. On our podcast, a former senior Biden official offers a blueprint to fix it. @rooseveltinstitute.org
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Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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Trump’s Education Tax Credit Gambit
Trump’s school choice tax credit is pitched as innovation, but it mainly diverts tax dollars to private schools with little accountability.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Subsidies for Scholarship Granting Organizations, the latest rage on the right, are being sold as a brilliant innovation to help underprivileged kids. Don’t fall for it.
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Palestine activists should follow David Blakenhorn’s example, not Barry Goldwater’s, writes Jon A. Shields.
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A New Path for a Free Palestine
Pro-Palestine activists should follow David Blakenhorn’s example, not Barry Goldwater’s.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Palestine activists should follow David Blakenhorn’s example, not Barry Goldwater’s, writes Jon A. Shields.
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A comprehensive overview of the 47th president's pardon machine.
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Trump’s Pardon Power Abuses
The president has wide latitude to grant clemency, but Trump has broken all pardon norms and sought even more authority to help his allies.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A comprehensive overview of the 47th president's pardon machine.
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If anybody who criticized Charlie Kirk in the days after his death deserved to lose their job, why doesn’t Donald Trump deserve to lose his?
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Trump’s Sickening Sociopathic Shots at Rob Reiner
All Republicans must be asked if they stand behind their master Donald Trump on his disgusting Rob Reiner comments.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If anybody who criticized Charlie Kirk in the days after his death deserved to lose their job, why doesn’t Donald Trump deserve to lose his?
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"Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him."
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Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him
The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs. Help us keep independent media alive.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him."
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The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs.
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Trump Is Trying to Control the Corporate Media. Here’s How You Can Stop Him
The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs. Help us keep independent media alive.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The president wants to pick CNN’s owners and decide what CBS News airs.
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