Paul Glastris - 2028 Will Be Totally Different Than 2026 with Julie Mason

Editor in Chief @glastris.bsky.social went on The Julie Mason Show to break down the Democratic field for 2028: whose policy hits the mark, who can (or can’t) electrify a crowd, and––crucially––who’s tall.

The Bipartisan Roots of Trump’s One Good Education Reform The "Do No Harm" rule codifies the idea that every college degree should make graduates better off than if they had never attended.

An unheralded provision in the “big beautiful” tax act creates a beachhead for quality control in higher education that both parties have worked towards for three-quarters of a century,
@glastris.bsky.social and @nateweisberg.bsky.social write. Will it survive?

The Corporate Conspiracy of Silence on “Affordability” Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize the wages they pay their employees.

Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts? @anne-s-kim.bsky.social unpacks.

Newport, Oregon, is another battleground in President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration as the administration plans numerous detention facilities in small towns.

@garrettepps.bsky.social reports.

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Repeat After Me: ‘I Am Somebody’ Jesse Jackson was furious over injustice. He was also full of hope. His funeral was a reminder that the two were never meant to be separated.

Jesse Jackson was furious over injustice. He was also full of hope. His funeral was a reminder that the two were never meant to be separated, David Masciotra writes.

At least some Americans are benefiting from Trump’s Iran War.

On affordability, Democrats have the stronger hand. They just need to stop folding.

The winter issue of the Washington Monthly is here, featuring @glastris.bsky.social, @jrakove.bsky.social, @alexbronzini.bsky.social, @billscher.bsky.social, @gooznews.bsky.social + more: shorturl.at/38NmN

The Unraveling Right The MAGA movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.

If you want to understand the roots of the MAGA crack up we are witnessing in real time, read this review essay @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/t...

Putin’s Energy Blitzkrieg is Backfiring Putin and Russia’s drone and missile campaign aims to break Ukraine’s will. Instead, it’s deepening civilian resolve and national solidarity.

If you want to know the reason why Russia is not going to win, read this @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/29/p...

How to Bring Down Grocery Prices A civilian equivalent of the commissary system could deliver more affordable grocery prices to hard-pressed Americans.

A public option for grocery stores, based on the proof of concept provided by the commissary model, could not only vastly improve food access; it could inject more competition into the broader grocery market and bring down food prices for all Americans in the long term. By @clairek.bsky.social

Is FEMA ready for this storm? How will cuts impact Americans? Will Trump provide equal support to red and blue states alike? This will be one of those tests of governance that every administration faces...and that Trump-led administrations regularly and often disastrously fail.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

In Denmark, U.S. lawmakers contradict Trump on need to own Greenland Leaders of the bipartisan delegation said most Americans don’t want to acquire Greenland, and that Russia and China don’t pose imminent security risks to the territory.

More of this please. Screw the water’s edge. The world needs to hear from national leaders of both parties that Trump’s foreign policy is broadly detested in America on borrowed time. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The number of representatives House Rs can afford to lose on a floor vote:

Yesterday: 3
Today: 2
Soon after Jan. 31: 1
After GA-11 special (which will happen next) (barring upset): 2
After NJ-11 special (barring upset): 1
After CA-1 special (sometime in May) (barring upset): 2

Best Colleges For Your Tuition Dollars - TestBright An assortment of institutions as diverse and differentiated as colleges… Read more

Had a great discussion with the hosts of the Tests and the Rest podcast about which colleges provide the best value for your tuition and tax dollars, based on @washingtonmonthly.com’s 2025 college rankings. gettestbright.com/best-college...

The GOP War on Nurses Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social

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finished Death By Lightning, pretty good! nice plotting, well acted etc. didn’t really buy the saintly portrayal of Garfield but boy are we loaded up with a lot of Guiteau type people today

A New Path for a Free Palestine Pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist activists now face a moral test as antisemitic violence surges worldwide. Can they change course?

Israel isn’t going to disappear and calling for its liquidation spurs antisemitism. There’s a better way.

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Beware of Trump’s Global Broligarchy The president’s pay-to-play mentality is undermining U.S. foreign policy.

The Trump administration has broken with decades of settled practice on corruption issues, and the American people will pay the price, writes Christian Caryl.

Why Can’t America Build Enough Weapons? The debasement of the U.S. defense industrial base began, ironically, under Ronald Reagan, and won’t be reversed until we abandon the free-market fundamentalism he introduced.

…you would have known all about it in the summer is 2024. @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/23/w...

Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.

This devastating NYTimes assessment of the American military’s broken weapons development and military industrial systems is spot on. But if you’ve been reading @washingtonmonthly.com…/1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1. Thread: Why America fails to build public infrastructure cost effectively.

High Costs Are Not an Engineering Problem
They Are a Political–Fiscal Design Problem

Countries like Sweden and Germany do not build transit cheaply because they have better engineers per se. They build cheaply because:

Hoosier daddy

Mad respect for this headline. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Now Trump gets to count the war twice

How to Fight Authoritarianism To manage the rise of China and other illiberal forces, the U.S. and Europe need a new kind of alliance.

This was the correct path. Trump and the GOP abandoned it. America and the world will pay the price. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/04/04/h...

China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time

China’s predatory economy is the problem. Uniting with our allies to fight back is the only sensible response. Instead, Trump is undermining our allies, and hence we are losing. There was an alternative. /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

Without a higher education program, the University of Nebraska is going to have a hard time recruiting and keeping the next generation of higher education leaders when competing institutions offer the chance for staff members to further their education. This decision will backfire.

One aspect of the "affordability" story that the great minds who write on this shit seem unable to see is that Trump and his rich friends are trying to end work from home and force people back to the office. This is equivalent to an 8% pay cut, but I guess that's too simple.

Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.

Oh this is so definitely going to happen.