Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing: Rhoda Feng (@newrepublic.com) and Dan Piepenbring (@harpers.bsky.social).
A proposed OMB rule would require every grant to "advance the President's policy priorities." James D. Zirin explains why researchers are at DEFCON-1.
Trump's deal-making reputation is in tatters after the Iran War. But the biggest loser, @billscher.bsky.social argues, is Netanyahu—whose every gamble backfired, strengthening Iran and weakening Israel's American alliance.
Don't read Nicholas Lemann's "Returning" as a Jewish book, @mattizcoop.bsky.social writes, but as an American one: how, in a free country, we choose to wear our identities, and how the majority culture pushes back. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/11/t...
On the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Roberts Court has found a way to commemorate it: by gutting the Voting Rights Act. @jrakove.bsky.social, a historian of the founding era, on what's really being nullified.
For two decades, Iranian and Venezuelan exiles were Washington's most convincing salespeople for pressure campaigns against their homelands. Now they've been cast aside.
The Washington Monthly’s annual Kukula award celebrates the best in nonfiction book reviewing and honors the memory of Kukula Kapoor Glastris
“Remember When We Used to Take World War III Seriously?”
My @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest on the plotless farce of the Iran war
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“The Iran War’s Biggest Loser? Definitely Netanyahu”
My @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest
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In the 1980s, serious people feared World War III. Today, our slouch toward World War III is being orchestrated by egotistical sociopaths.
