Recently added articles from The Washington Monthly:
Tilting at windmills.(on terrorism and economy)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Obama's Vietnam? In a haunting reminder of Vietnam's body counts, the U.S. Army has begun publicizing every Taliban fighter killed, according to the Wall Street Journal. Another reminder of Vietnam comes from a New York Times report that Army investigators have determined that ...
Athens 2.0.(Editor's Note)(on Greek politics)
Jul 01, 2009; ... When the Founding Fathers were designing the American system of government, they carefully studied previous models, especially the democracies of ancient Greece. They came away determined not to copy a key Greek idea: the direct, participatory democracy that held sway in Athens between ...
The geekdom of crowds: the Obama administration experiments with data-driven democracy.(Barack Obama)
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My favorite bar in Washington is the Raven Grill, a shoebox-shaped (and -sized) dive in the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. The second half of the bar's official name is a total lie, unless you count the overpriced beef jerky on the shelf next to the ...
Code red: how software companies could screw up Obama's health care reform.(Barack Obama)(Cover story)
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The central contention of Barack Obama's vision for health care reform is straightforward: that our health care system today is so wasteful and poorly organized that it is possible to lower costs, expand access, and raise quality all at the same time--and ...
Cuba notwithstanding: could this summer's hurricanes blow away the trade embargo?(TEN MILES SQUARE)
Jul 01, 2009; ... For half a century, the United States has pursued a policy of isolating Cuba in the vain hope that doing so would lead to the downfall of the island's Communist regime. Today that policy is one of the last great historical anachronisms of the Cold War, outliving the Berlin Wall and the ...