@glastris.bsky.social
Editor in chief, Washington Monthly, former speechwriter for President Clinton, physically present if mentally distracted father, St. Louis Cardinals fan.
For TIME’s cover, my profile of @springsteen. Fifty years after his breakthrough Born to Run and ahead of a powerful new film on the most vulnerable stretch of his life, we met to discuss his life and legacy, and to walk the streets where it all began: Asbury Park.
Story: time.com/7319963/bruc...
🎙️Higher education excellence is not catering to the wealthy but meeting the needs of the average student, says @glastris.bsky.social. He's the editor of @washingtonmonthly.com which just put out its 2025 college rankings.
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The American press consistently Undercovers the success of Ukraine’s war effort.
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Trump's personalist industrial policy is unlawful and courts disaster. But with the right democratic checks and balances, the next Democratic president can use the same tools to great effect, notes @joeldodge07.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com
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The unemployment rate for Black college graduates 25 years and older reached 5.3% in July, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Haver Analytics, based on Labor Department data. That was up from 3.9% in May and 2.7% in February. (Unlike the figures for overall unemployment, the Labor Department doesn’t adjust these figures for the typical seasonal swings that occur from month to month.) The July rate was 1.7 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for white workers with only a high-school diploma—the biggest gap since Labor Department records for this metric began 1992.
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates.
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Worth remembering (and pointing out where necessary) that drawing equivalence between raiding Bolton’s house for documents and raiding Mar-a-Lago requires Bolton to have similarly dismissed and worked around demands for their return for months.
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My take on the pathetic Alaska summit and the White House meeting that followed.
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Map of DC showing federal troops mainly in tourist-heavy areas, not crime centers.
A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC.
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If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.
Washington's homicide rate is the 11th highest among large US cities, but eight of the 10 with higher rates are in red states — Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana. Trump has not sent National Guard to any of them. @russcontreras.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/08/15/h...
15.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 381 🔁 186 💬 29 📌 21If YIMBYs weren’t primarily focused on rezoning single family residential neighborhoods then the name of their movement would be “Yes In That Underutilized Commercial Area Over There.”
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Washington DC, America’s bluest city, is building more homes per capita than Houston—not with bottom-up zoning reform but with top-down government action:
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I’m proud to have the endorsement of my friend and colleague, CA State Treasurer @fionamacpa.bsky.social!
Her leadership has strengthened California’s economy and invested in our future. I’m ready to build on that record as your next State Treasurer!
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Dems should go "all out on gerrymandering warfare," says @billscher.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com, and fight fire with fire in California and elsewhere.
From this week's politics roundtable: @glastris.bsky.social @mattizcoop.bsky.social
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Join @billscher.bsky.social @glastris.bsky.social for this week's politics roundtable @washingtonmonthly.com at 10 AM TODAY.
Among today's topics: Should Dems go "nuclear" in the escalating battle over redistricting?
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Trump is wrecking college admissions, says @glastris.bsky.social, with his demands for admissions data from elite colleges.
ICYMI, this week's politics roundtable @washingtonmonthly.com with @billscher.bsky.social also talk tariffs and redistricting
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Pravda takes note of @washingtonmonthly.com coverage of the war in Ukraine, and notes as a dark aside that we are supported by Bill Gates‘s foundation! nato.news-pravda.com/world/2025/0...
11.08.2025 14:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth.
All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.
NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | @jacobheilbrunn.bsky.social - The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files | Steven Harper - The Dirty Deal Already Made Between Trump and Ghislaine
Maxwell | Chris Hedges - Speaker Johnson Meets Israeli Settlers Telling Them They are the "Rightful Owners" of Palestine
Join @mattizcoop.bsky.social @glastris.bsky.social @billscher.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com at 10 AM this am as they talk about the mess in Texas redistricting, Trump's latest authoritarian move with the BLS, and a GOP rift on Israel
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The Texas GOP's outrageous power grab could be doomed to fail anyway, says @billscher.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.com
ICYMI, watch this week's livestream with Bill, @mattizcoop.bsky.social @glastris.bsky.social
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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
02.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 576 🔁 183 💬 18 📌 6Right take. BTW, never heard of her until literally 10 minutes ago.
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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...
27.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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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...
25.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
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Join @glastris.bsky.social @billscher.bsky.social @mattizcoop.bsky.social on @washingtonmonthly.com’s politics round table at *10 AM TODAY* with special guest Tamar Jacoby, joining us living from Ukraine.
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