Nate Weisberg `24 at The Washington Monthly:
What I’ve learned at the Washington Monthly is simple: look where others aren’t. Ask the complex question. Build the case. And then write the hell out of it. Start over and do it again.
That approach has taken me everywhere. I wrote a piece on New York Democrats’ Election Day wipeout, focusing on candidates like Representative Pat Ryan, who’d figured out how to outperform. I interviewed a lawyer from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about the gutting of his agency from within. I spoke with Democratic and Republican operatives in Kansas about the parallels between Trump’s second-term policies and Sam Brownback’s disastrous supply-side experiment for a piece that turned out to be prescient. And I’ve managed to insert myself into the debate about the future of the Democratic Party, American liberalism, and MAGA.