Paul Glastris

Washington Monthly Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent magazine based in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the Monthly has launched some of the biggest names in journalism, including James Fallows o...

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Crises and chaos shake the GOP with a power grab in Texas, a dispute over jobs data and a looming rift on Israel Washington Monthly Politics Roundtable · Episode

The Texas GOP's outrageous power grab could be doomed to fail anyway, says @billscher.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com

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YouTube video by Washington Monthly Numbers don't lie - Trump's economy is cratering

Trump's economy is hardly the "golden age" he promised, says @glastris.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com

In fact, it sucks.

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Victims of child rape have risked their mental health and lives to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell and also testify against Donald Trump for violent sexual assault as women. Yet GROWN ADULTS are too afraid of risking their proximity to power to demand the Epstein files or to directly condemn Trump

Right take. BTW, never heard of her until literally 10 minutes ago.

Opinion | How Israel’s War Became Unjust

Mostly agree with this but not sure how Douthat left out the fact that Netanyahu and Trump are openly talking about ethnically cleansing Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Al Arabiya English on X: "How do you regard what is often seen as Donald #Trump’s contradictory behavior? Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief of Washington Monthly, shares his view. #RizKhan https://t.co/ZG6vh3r9zB" / X How do you regard what is often seen as Donald #Trump’s contradictory behavior? Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief of Washington Monthly, shares his view. #RizKhan https://t.co/ZG6vh3r9zB

He's also a totally nice guy, especially for someone who's interviewed the leaders of maybe half the countries on Earth. The conversation was wide ranging—everything from Trump’s tariffs to the future of American global influence and how the Democrats might win back power. x.com/AlArabiya_En...

Al Arabiya English on X: "Is #Trump truly unchecked in #US politics? @glastris, editor in chief of Washington Monthly, weighs in. #GNT https://t.co/Moi8kP89u1" / X Is #Trump truly unchecked in #US politics? @glastris, editor in chief of Washington Monthly, weighs in. #GNT https://t.co/Moi8kP89u1

You might remember Khan as the inaugural anchor of CNN International and later host of the marquee interview program on Al Jazeera English. If you watch just a short clip like the one below, you'll see Khan's questions are more impressive than my answers. /2 x.com/AlArabiya_En...

President Clinton’s former speechwriter Glastris on Trump, Clinton, Harris Riz Khan sits down with Paul Glastris, former speechwriter to President Bill Clinton, for a deep dive into the power of political language. From US

Who gets a chance to go on TV for an hour and give their opinions on the most important issues of the day? Certainly not I--until the legendary international broadcast journalist Riz Khan invited me onto his show on Al Arabiya English. /1 english.alarabiya.net/webtv/progra...

Washington Monthly Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent magazine based in Washington, D.C. Over the years, the Monthly has launched some of the biggest names in journalism, including James Fallows o...

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A notice that should make students, faculty members, and taxpayers angry...

.... and will make people who have worked as speechwriters say ... really????

Trump’s Shift on Ukraine is Welcome, but Now What? | Washington Monthly The president's had tougher language for Putin and Russia and put through a stalled arms shipment to Ukraine. Is the change real?

Trump might offer Ukraine kind words in his big speech tomorrow, but judge him by his deeds. @washingtonmonthly.com Kyiv correspondent Tamar Jacoby on what the president must do to put himself on the right side of history. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/13/t...

Given that the two leaders are openly talking about ethnically cleansing Gaza of Palestinians, I rated the likelihood as low. Interview begins at minute 11:30.

Gaza diplomacy, Ukraine under fire, and Trump targets Putin In this episode of Global News Today, presented by Tom Burges Watson, we bring you the latest on renewed ceasefire efforts in Gaza, as Israeli and US

On Al Arabiya TV yesterday I was asked to assess whether the recent meetings between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump to negotiate a cease fire in Gaza would lead to a longterm regional solution that would deliver Trump a Nobel prize. english.alarabiya.net/webtv/progra...

The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong | Washington Monthly Ezra Klein and abundance liberals blame red tape for broadband delays. But the real story behind Biden’s BEAD program is far more complicated.

When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart about out-of-control regulations ruining Biden's rural broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing.

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Also, Jon Stewart and others are so susceptible to this kind of narrative by being credulous about any “guvmint bad” argument & failing to examine it closely. Stewart’s bending over backwards to be fair to bad-faith conservative critiques can make him Bill Maher Lite.

It seems to be a ubiquitous republican tactic: to make any public-good legislation they can’t stop outright more bureaucratic and burdensome, so they can point and say “government sucks!” Means-testing, making bizarre limitations on food stamps, etc.

" U.S. policymakers, Teles argues, increasingly create kludgy government because of the tension between liberals who want to use federal power to address national problems and conservatives who want to siphon federal largess through private corporations and the states. "

Nailed it.

"Others, including the editors of this magazine, argue that abundance liberals...fail to recognize that corporate behemoths are frequently the hidden saboteurs, and that their outsized economic and political power is a direct result of past deregulatory efforts."

Amen! Brothers and Sisters.

GOP Budget Bill: One Big Betrayal | Washington Monthly Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” turns on his own voters, Zohran Mamdani topples Cuomo in New York, and the Iran strike may have backfired.

More on this from @billscher.bsky.social here. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/30/g...

Pentagon Again Shifts Assessment of Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program

Conservatives opposed Obama’s nuclear treaty because it only froze Iran’s weapons program for a decade. Now they defend Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites for setting Iran’s nuclear program back a few years at best. The bombs have at least moved the goalposts!
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Politics LIVE - 6-30-25 - The GOP Spending Bill: One Big Betrayal of Trump's Base YouTube video by Washington Monthly

Trump's one big "beautiful" bill is not only a budget-buster but a betrayal of his base.

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I am glad to see a prominent scholar focus attention on constitutional failure. I have been writing about this since 2018 (when I presented a paper at APSA on this problem) and have since written several academic papers as well as op-eds on trump & constitutional failure 1/2

Trump's Vocational Education Con  | Washington Monthly Trump promised to revitalize vocational training and help the working class. Instead, he's cutting workforce programs by a third.

Trump was supposed to shift government resources into vocational education and help lower-income people train for good-paying blue-collar jobs.

You will be shocked to learn that is not what is happening.

My @washingtonmonthly.com deep dive: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/t...

Analysis: Why Trump needs the world to believe Iran’s nuclear program is ‘obliterated’ | CNN Politics There are two reasons why President Donald Trump needs the world to believe his adamant claims that Iran’s nuclear program has been obliterated.

“If the world believes that Iran’s nuclear program is destroyed and all sources suggesting otherwise are discredited, Trump has a rationale for taking no further action,” Stephen Collinson writes.

A longtime military and intelligence insider explains to
@glastris.bsky.social why the failure to destroy Iran’s nuclear bunkers may have weakened U.S. power far beyond the Middle East:

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@washingtonmonthly.com @glastris.bsky.social "US government established a test facility, a mock underground chemical & nuclear production facility in western US & bombed it literally for years. Every type of bomb or combination of bombs were used rarely caused any more than superficial damage" #Iran

Trump's War Gamble: Isolationist President Opens Pandora's Box With Iran | Washington Monthly Editors weigh in on potential military escalation, domestic political divides, and economic fallout from Trump's strike on Iran.

Trump’s War Gamble: "Isolationist" President Opens Pandora’s Box With Iran. A spirited conversation.

Featuring @jacobheilbrunn.bsky.social @glastris.bsky.social @mattizcoop.bsky.social and host @anne-s-kim.bsky.social:

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Contrast betw Hegseth's preening, and the limited specific answers from Gen Caine, is difference between someone who thinks the world is a (weekend) Fox News show, and someone who is serious about business of war.

Hegseth's toadying comments about Trump impossible to imagine from previous SecDefs.

No Kings, Just Chaos | Washington Monthly As Trump’s military pageant fizzled, millions joined protests, a political assassination shook Minnesota, and Israel attacked Iran.

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