Recently added articles from The Washington Monthly:
Service interruption.(Editor's Note)(national service)
May 01, 2008; Glastris, Paul ... Journalists tend to fall for Senator John McCain--and go easy on him in their coverage--for all the reasons you've heard of. The hours of unmediated access he gives reporters. The knowing winks he flashes them in the midst of a public pander. The frisson they feel in the presence of ...
Tilting at windmills.(presidential election)
May 01, 2008; Peters, Charles ... What worries me about Obama I Why didn't Barack Obama mention the military option in his otherwise eloquent call to service at Wesleyan? Why didn't he show respect for the people of West Virginia and Kentucky by doing more than token campaigning there? These are troubling ...
BHO: QED: why Obama is scientifically certain to win in November.(TEN MILES SQUARE)(Barack Obama)
May 01, 2008; Balz, John ... If you spend time among the chattering classes, it s easy to get caught up in Campaign '08's most tantalizing questions. Has the length and tenor of the primary campaign irreparably split the Democratic Party in half? Could the Jeremiah Wright videos hurt Barack Obama more in the general ...
How to be a Montana millionaire.(Under the Influence)
May 01, 2008; Klein, Avi ... Montana's state motto may be oro y plata (gold and silver), but it's not a good place to get rich. In the rankings of millionaires per state, Montana beats only four other states, with a mere 22.9 millionaires for every thousand households, plus a solitary billionaire. But we'll let you in ...
Pinkertons at DHS: are immigration busts undermining U.S. labor law?(United States Department of Homeland Security)
May 01, 2008; Frank, T.A. ... In November 2005, hotel employees in the city of Emeryville, California got some good news. Local voters had passed a "living wage" law requiring hotels to pay workers a minimum of nine dollars per hour plus extra for certain duties. In an expensive town--Emeryville occupies a narrow ...
Bin Laden's soft support: how the next president can win over the world's most alienated Muslims.(Osama bin Laden)
May 01, 2008; Ballen, Kenneth ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a typically humid spring night in Jakarta in 2005, an Indonesian colleague and I were driven by some Islamist activists through the city's dense back alleyways to the dilapidated offices of a leading radical student publication. We were led up a narrow ...
Too weird for the wire: how black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the feds.(Cover story)
May 01, 2008; Carey, Kevin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On November 16, 2005, Willie "Bo" Mitchell and three co-defendants--Shelton "Little Rock" Harris, Shelly "Wayne" Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner--appeared for a hearing in the modern federal courthouse in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The four African ...
The end of resentment: has the well of middle class anger that Richard Nixon tapped finally run dry?(Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Kilgore, Ed ... Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Scribner, 866 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The best way to convey Rick Perlstein's achievement in writing Nixonland is to observe that he has taken one of the most ...
Grandiose Old Party: two young conservatives have a plan to revitalize the GOP: embrace massive social engineering.(Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Drum, Kevin ... Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream By Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam Doubleday, 256 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During the week I spent reading Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party, I ...
Contract with Armenia: America may be no good at exporting democracy, but it's great at exporting political consultants.
May 01, 2008; Green, Joshua ... Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin Into a Global Business By James Harding Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 252 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few years ago, I wrote a long article on Karl Rove's history of dirty tricks that got a lot of ...
Soldier of good fortune: rebel leader Paul Kagame ended the Rwandan genocide. Has he also made that country a model for the rest of Africa?(A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Hammer, Joshua ... A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer Wiley, 400 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In early May 1994, one month into the Rwandan genocide, I was driving down a mountain road in northern Rwanda when my car was ...
Roman Scumbag: Ralph Reed was a despicable political operative. Maybe that's why his first novel is so good.(Dark Horse: A Political Thriller)(Book review)
May 01, 2008; Malanowski, Jamie ... Dark Horse: A Political Thriller by Ralph Reed Howard Books, 445 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They are male and female, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, legislator and executive, insider and publicity hound. They are Boxer and ...