Washington Ideas Forum 2014
Dispatches from The Atlantic's two-day conference in the capital
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Vice Is the Establishment Now
When it's hard to tell the difference between a former White House press secretary and a hipster media CEO, times have changed.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Susan Rice: There's No Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations
The national security advisor responds to reports that the relationship is at an all-time low.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic The Demands of Running a 21st-Century Museum
Incoming Smithsonian secretary David Skorton says the institution will continue to be accessible to all.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic The Libertarian Capitalist's Case for State Power and Making No Money
Peter Thiel praises the great government-engineering projects and the impoverished inventors like Tesla and the Wright brothers.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Gaming Out the End of the Gay-Marriage Fight
Evan Wolfson and Ted Olson aren't pleased with the Supreme Court's decision not to make marriage equality the law of the land, but they're ready to keep fighting.
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Hitting ISIS Where It Hurts
Treasury undersecretary David Cohen on using finance to fight terrorism
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: Get Used to Endless War
From ISIS to climate change, the Pentagon chief says, the threats that face the United States are long-term challenges.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Megan Smith Thinks Every Child Should Be Able to Code
The U.S. chief technology officer and former vice president of Google[x] believes that the key to innovation is early STEM education.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Does Eric Holder Want to Prosecute Journalists or Not?
The attorney general continues to wrestle with how to handle national-security-leak prosecutions, but says leakers in Ferguson, Missouri, "need to shut up."
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic David Rubenstein's Patriotic Philanthropy
The billionaire founder and CEO of the Carlyle Group on his mission to repay America for everything it's given him
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Do Campaigns Actually Produce More Voter Apathy?
"People are a whole lot more interested in themselves than they are in the candidates."
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic The Onion, Jon Stewart, and the Rise of the Bashful Social Critic
Why don't America's most effective, moral voices want to claim any credit for what they're doing?
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Larry Downing/Reuters Winning With Ideas
For the next two days, lawmakers, experts, academics, and pundits will demonstrate how creative thinking can affect pressing global issues.
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simpleinsomnia/Flickr What Will the GOP Senate Be Like?
Republicans promise that if they seize the majority, they'll stop Obama—and stop the Washington gridlock. Can they really do both?
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Swoan Parker/Reuters The Economic Impact of School Suspensions
A recent report found that African-American girls were suspended at much higher rates than their white peers, a phenomenon that leads to lower earnings and educational attainment in the long run.
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Matt Rourke/AP Can Groceries Save the USPS?
In an effort to forestall its collapse, the Post Office is experimenting in San Francisco.
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Kimberly White/Reuters Are Gay-Marriage Bans a Form of Sexism?
A federal judge argues that barring people from marrying who they want because of their gender is unconstitutional. It's a promising but imperfect case.