Washington Monthly

George W. Bush, on the ballot again.

Editor's Note - Editorial

Brave new world?

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Math is hard.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Too little, too late.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Correction.

LETTERS - Correction notice

Party over policy.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Tilting at windmills.

Last call: industry giants are threatening to swallow up America's carefully regulated alcohol industry, and remake America in the image of booze-soaked Britain.

How we could blow the energy boom: America's vast new surplus of natural gas could lead to greater prosperity and a cleaner environment. But if we don't fix our decrepit, blackout-prone electric grid, we could wind up sitting in the dark.

The conservative war on prisons: right-wing operatives have decided that prisons are a lot like schools: hugely expensive, inefficient, and in need of root-and-branch reform. Is this how progress will happen in a hyper-polarized world?

Obama's game of chicken: the untold story of how the administration tried to stand up to big agricultural companies on behalf of independent farmers, and lost.

Drone on: it's probably a matter of when, not if, al-Qaeda in Yemen successfully strikes the U.S. Yet the drone attacks currently keeping the organization at bay are also helping recruit more terrorists. Can you say "no-win situation"?

The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia - Book review

Brass backwards: Thomas Ricks explains the declining competence of America's senior military commanders.

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today - Book review

Act of recovery: only one national reporter, Michael Grunwald, bothered to take a detailed look at how well the $787 billion stimulus was spent. What he discovered confounds the Beltway conventional wisdom.

The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era - Book review

Up from independence: Harry Truman was a classic American striver, and a failure, until war and politics intervened.

Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman - Book review

Memoirs of an academic fraudster: inside the shadowy business of ghostwriting college students' papers.

The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat - Book review

Spread too thin: scholars have discovered that certain everyday food items have played pivotal roles in the history of civilization. Apparently, peanut butter is not one of them.

Creamy & Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food - Book review