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Articles in April, 2008 issue of Washington Monthly

• Tilting at windmills
  by Charles Peters
• Pacifist aggressive: Nicholson Baker's odd take on World War II
  by Jamie Malanowski
• Portrait of an inbox: fixing America's worst school system, one e-mail at a time
  by Kevin Carey
• Invisible shove: how choice is becoming the favored social engineering tool of the twenty-first century
  by David Wallace-Wells
• Chris Kimball
  by Markos Kounalakis
• Mad social scientists: how anti-comic-book crusaders paved the way for William Bennett
  by Jesse Singal
• "Military Psychiatric Screening Still Lags," by Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel, Hortford Courant, March 9, 2008
• Majority rule at last: how to dump the electoral college without changing the Constitution
  by Michael Waldman
• Confessions of a sweatshop inspector: presidential candidates are calling for tougher labor standards in trade agreements. But can such standards be enforced? Here's what I learned from my old job
  by T.A. Frank
• Louisiana purchase: love of family inspired William Jefferson to do great things. it also explains that $90,000 in his freezer
  by Jason Berry
• An idea whose time has gone: conservatives abandon their support for school vouchers
  by Greg Anrig
• Policy is the best honesty
  by Paul Glastris
• Inequality and solidarity: why a resurgent labor movement is closer than you think
  by Richard D. Kahlenberg
• An end to torture
  by Lloyd Doggett
• Underground authority: a gonzo sociologist discovers how drug gangs give ghetto life a fragile kind of order
  by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
• Bagels vs. traffic jam
  by Richard Florida
• Air of indifference: how Clear Channel destroyed its own radio market
  by Paul Waldman