Stories by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Benjamin Wallace-Wells is an editor of The Washington Monthly.
Boxing has long existed in a cultural ghetto, reveling in its corruption and violence. Women's boxing operates in a further ghetto still, a brutal and hopeless sport.
Posted on Mar 22, 2005
America's economy is losing its high-tech competitive edge and Washington hasn't noticed.
Posted on Mar 3, 2005
There's a private fear even among Barack Obama's most passionate admirers that he's been pushed toward a national stage that he may not not quite be ready for.
Posted on Nov 19, 2004
The changing demographic of Virginia points to a Democratic revival in the state.
Posted on Sep 27, 2004
A Scottish historian and darling of the Bush administration sees the failures in Iraq not as an indictment of the project of American empire, but as a confirmation of it.
Posted on Jun 30, 2004
The recent spate of television shows reveal a generation of wealthy heirs who simply don't know what do with themselves or their money.
Posted on Jan 29, 2004
The network that once represented the epitome of cool for millions of teenagers is now peddling high school melodrama minus the parents.
Posted on Nov 5, 2003