The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly was founded in 1969 on the notion that a handful of plucky young writers and editors, armed with an honest desire to make government work and a willingness to ask uncomfortable questions, could tell the story of what really matters in Washington better than a roomful of Beltway insiders at a Georgetown dinner party. In our cluttered little downtown DC office, were still doing what we have done for more than 50 years, and what fewer and fewer publications do today: telling fascinating, deeply reported stories about the ideas and characters that animate Americas government. We dont chase news cycles, or obsess over the endless political horse race. We care about how the government can be improved, and why it hasnt; whos a fraud and who isnt; which ideas ought to be banished from the nations capital and which ones deserve to be championed. Were not a subsidiary of some giant media company or a mouthpiece for ideologues. Were an independent voice, listened to by...