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The problem isn’t just disinformation or right-wing media, explains a former Democratic member of Congress, but how media reaches us.

There’s no insurrection like Trump’s 2020 handoff, but it’s still filled with infighting, wild selections like Gaetz, and a GSA-free framework, adding to the chaos. A transition scholar explains.

Ahoy, readers! The Washington Monthly has been generating ideas and doing the reporting to revive liberalism, but we need your help to keep going.

If you’re Catholic and of a certain age and grew up inspired by (at least some) of the Kennedys, watching a delusional Robert F. Kennedy Jr. join the Trump administration is the final blow.

The two-term attorney general is almost certain to be confirmed by an incoming Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, but will they even try to probe whether she’ll be independent of Trump and his minions?

To break the MAGA stranglehold on the White House, the Senate, and the House, America needs good ideas that can win elections and make government work. That’s where the Monthly comes in.

Multinationals often opposed the FTC chair’s vigorous antitrust enforcement and that of the entire Biden administration, but Trump’s industrial policy by temper tantrum gives corporations what they really hate—instability.

The press has ignored his championing failed health-care privatization schemes for our veterans and current military.

The incoming U.S. president does not have a mandate for high tariffs. The leaders of Canada and Mexico should exploit Trump’s impetuous ineptitude.