Everything about The Washington Monthly totally explained
The Washington Monthly is a monthly
magazine of
United States politics and
government that's based in
Washington, D.C..
The magazine's founder is
Charles Peters, who started the magazine in
1969 and continues to write monthly columns.
Paul Glastris, former speechwriter for
Bill Clinton, has been the
Monthly's editor-in-chief since
2001. Author and journalist
Markos Kounalakis is the magazine's current president.
Nick Penniman is the magazine's current publisher. Past staff editors of the magazine include
Taylor Branch,
James Fallows,
David Ignatius,
Nicholas Lemann,
Mickey Kaus,
Jonathan Alter,
Joshua Green and
Jon Meacham.
The politics of the
Monthly are
left of center, though somewhat
moderately so.
The
Monthly is one of a growing number of magazines to feature a continuing
blog; the popular "Political Animal" is written principally by
Kevin Drum with frequent guest contributions by the
Monthly's current and alumni editors.
Annual college rankings
The Washington Monthly's annual
college and university rankings (an alternative college guide to the
U.S. News and World Report) began as a research report in 2005. It was introduced as an official set of rankings in the September 2006 issue. The rankings are based upon the following criteria:
- a. "how well it performs as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor to get rich rather than the very rich to get very, very rich)"
- b. "how well it does in fostering scientific and humanistic research"
- c. "how well it promotes an ethic of service to country" .
The top ranked National University for 2007 is
Texas A&M University and the top ranked Liberal Arts College for 2007 is
Presbyterian College..
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