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The closure of The Washington Post's Book World was a gut punch for book lovers. We're proud to announce that the Washington Monthly’s new standalone book review, The Reader, is stepping into the breach.

On November 15, The Reader will begin publishing five new books-related pieces each week—mostly reviews of nonfiction, where the lack of books coverage is most severe, but we’ll tell you about important new fiction, too.

The Reader’s list of contributors includes more than thirty Pulitzer Prize winning authors, as well as marquee journalists, critics and novelists. Among our eclectic list are Jelani Cobb (@jelani9), Amy Bloom (@AmyBloomBooks), Ian Frazier, Michael Lewis, Susan Orlean (@susanorlean), and Nora Krug (@nbkrug).

All of our reviews are free, with no paywalls. Subscribe here: https://t.co/jLo2eocR3q

[Haley Sweetland Edwards @haleybureau]

Had the pleasure of talking with Michael Schaffer @CityCast_DC about the launch this Sunday of @monthly's new book review, https://t.co/EtCTnw2slf

[Matthew Cooper @mattizcoop]

A launch, a grand reveal...coming soon from the Washington @Monthly.

[Bill Scher @billscher]

Big news for book lovers!

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

this is the best news!!!! for book readers, for authors, for the general public. and helmed by the very best person, @haleybureau to boot

[Bill Scher @billscher]

The election results are a clear mandate from the people to make sure the leader of the Senate was not a 76-year-old lifelong politician from Brooklyn but a 67-year-old lifelong politician from Montgomery County https://t.co/qWMYRrnslc

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The Washington @Monthly has a policy agenda for the new Congress, and we’re just getting started, @glastris writes.

https://t.co/oDR5QPTRSP

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The clamor to dump Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer after their colossal midterm victories makes no sense.

https://t.co/2VIfNTDEiG

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Using reconciliation, Democrats can preserve the tax cuts for working families in Trump’s big, ugly bill while repealing those for the wealthy.

https://t.co/xSLULXuXJi

[Bill Scher @billscher]

“Jon Stewart [claimed @chuckschumer ]‘fought tooth and nail against half of these f—ing people.’ But that isn’t true. Most of the Senate field were his recruits, and those that weren’t, like El-Sayed and Jackson, still got his financial backing.” https://t.co/qWMYRrnslc

[Bill Scher @billscher]

“Jeffries is 56 years old and has been in Congress for 14 years. He has never been Speaker. When Jeffries became House Minority Leader just four years ago, that was the pass-the-torch moment many Democrats had long been clamoring for.”

More here: https://t.co/qWMYRrnslc

[Bill Scher @billscher]

“Hakeem Jeffries Is Not Old, and Chuck Schumer Is Not Done” — my Washington @monthly latest https://t.co/qWMYRrmUvE

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Democrats won the Deep South.

Their Senate candidates carried the region-wide vote by five points, shattering a Republican stronghold that’s endured for generations.

@WoodardColin explains how the red wall collapsed.

https://t.co/FPxG7cgw5S

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

There is no desire for the right’s hardline immigration agenda. The average American hates ICE, wants criminals deported, and supports a path to legal status for most undocumented immigrants. This is clear in the polls leading up to and after the midterms. But Trump admin officials, like the rest of the right, want the opposite because the right is obsessed with race and it views immigration as part of an ongoing battle to tip the scales toward or away from it. These people use terms like “demographics,” but what the right really means is race. If you believe, as the right does, that it is locked in an existential battle over the future of the country and that the outcome will be determined by the racial composition of the country, then you are not going to just let people vote their way out of your race-obsessed regime.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Democrats have the opportunity to start taking immigration away from the GOP by offering an alternative to approach to the issue, one that is actually popular with voters:

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

"Democrats can still deliver enough progress to hold their coalition together in the long term. A few modest but visible wins, oversight without impeachment theater, and a strong affordability agenda for the future could carry the party through 2028."

[Washington Monthly @monthly]

Democrats must deliver some quick wins to satisfy their new coalition. It won’t be easy.

https://t.co/M6MDJYoI3V

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

Great stuff by @emeriticus

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I wrote about how Democrats can start to tackle immigration, and why the right has to be defeated in the long term as Trumpism dies and new threats emerge. My latest for @monthly https://t.co/7mPTqnI20l

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Republicans think immigration is their winning issue after the midterms. It’s not. 58% of voters said enforcement went too far; only 20% said not far enough. Yes, Latinos shifted left, but *young white men* also shifted left as much or more. Why? Because the right has nothing to offer except racial grievances and culture wars. It has no interest in governing well, which is why it spent the lead-up to midterms attempting to stop Americans from voting their way out of this through gerrymandering, attacks on the Voting Rights Act, and other schemes. It completely backfired. There could not have been a clearer signal that Americans reject the right-wing project, and that is why the movement is now doubling down. It sees itself as being at war with the country and has no intention of letting something like a biblical rebuke of its agenda stop it.

So it is now on Democrats to build something durable that offers people a constructive vision of the future that addresses real concerns while also thwarting the paths by which the right might recover its position. That means tackling issues like immigration, and there is a way for the party to do that: