Month: June 2016

Remembering Ali

Keep in mind that the approximate temperature in the ring during this fight was 120 degrees fahrenheit. That’s because it was very hot in Manila at 10am when the fight started, and the lights added even more heat. I have...

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Please Visit the New WaMo Site

We’ve been working hard for the last few months to redesign the Washington Monthly website. The old one was the bane of my existence, so I’d like to do a little dance on its grave. We’re still working out the...

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Will No One Defend White Supremacy?

Not long before I was born in 1969, this country was split between states that had legal segregation of the races and states that did not. The raging debate was whether it was legitimate or even constitutional for state and...

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Where Progressives Go in a Clinton Administration

As the process of melding the Clinton and Sanders campaigns/movements begins, we’ll see more and more stories like this one. The National Student Organizing Director for Sanders 2016 has just been hired by Hillary. Kunoor...

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