An editor details a new rural college rankings list for students trying to find a great rural college, including those providing top salaries.

For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate.

For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate.

The Best Colleges for Rural America reveal how some of higher ed’s biggest returns are happening in the country’s most remote corners.

Evan Barker offers a revealing critique of progressives but fails to explain how disillusionment with Democrats led her to vote for Trump.

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AI is not destroying white-collar work. It is making entry-level jobs harder to get, especially for graduates without real work experience.

In the Senate contest between Ken Paxton and James Talarico, both Republicans and Democrats should prefer a servant leader over a self-serving crook, writes the Editorial Board.

If Macron’s defense spending debate is any indication, a “European NATO” is neither around the corner nor on the horizon

Explore the Washington Monthly’s Spring 2026 Print Issue

Explore the Washington Monthly’s Spring 2026 Print Issue

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

The California governor will be haunted by his noble pledge to house the homeless, and his failure to give them temporary shelter.

It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”

The California governor will be haunted by his noble pledge to house the homeless, and his failure to give them temporary shelter.

The California governor will be haunted by his noble pledge to house the homeless, and his failure to give them temporary shelter.

The president’s words on Cuba, the next nation he’s casing for foreign intervention, sound all too familiar.

The president’s words on Cuba, the next nation he’s casing for foreign intervention, sound all too familiar.

Grade inflation is the predictable result of how American universities now organize teaching, labor, and money.

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Trump's second term is moving fast but avoiding the legislative work that builds durable legacies. A successor can undo much of it.

Now they’re going after Americans who have dual citizenship—like me, and Melania and Barron Trump, and millions of others.

Test scores are down, learning loss is real, and inequality is growing. Here are 5 truths Democrats must face on education.

To manage the rise of China and other illiberal forces, the U.S. and Europe need a new kind of alliance.