| Letters | 2 |
| Tilting at windmills | 4 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Why It's Too Hard to Start a New Business | 10 |
| Meacham, Jon | |
| Who's Who | 16 |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 18 |
| Critical Lessons From the Health Reform Front | 19 |
| editors, The | |
| What Hillary Could Learn From Canada and Germany | 22 |
| Jaffe, Susan FitzGerald and Mark | |
| Annual Political Book Award | 31 |
| The Washington Monthly, 2019 | 32 |
| Easterbrook, Gregg | |
| Political Puzzle | 37 |
| The Real Leader of the Opposition | 38 |
| Segal, David | |
| Memo of the Month | 43 |
| Monthly Journalism Award | 48 |
| Give Everyone a Job | 49 |
| KAUS, MICKEY | |
| End Discrimination and Increase Productivity | 51 |
| Lessand, Suzannah | |
| Build Single Room Occupancy Hotels | 52 |
| DeParle, Jason | |
| The Enemy Is Us | 54 |
| Longman, Phillip | |
| Political Booknotes Reviews | 58 |
| Torrey, Howard Kurtz and E. Fuller |
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