Bill Scher

@billscher

Politics Editor for the Washington @Monthly. Also, contributor @politico @realclearnews, @DMZShow, When America Worked podcast. (Avi by @Jess_Sassenach.)

Northampton, MA

Joined March 2008

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Bill Scher@billscher · Dec 1, 2020

For the debut episode of my history podcast "When America Worked," I delve into to the story of Edward Stettinius and the creation of the UN It's a story with sex, spying, betrayal and, most importantly, bipartisanship and compromise You can listen here scherable.com/whenamericawor…

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 6

“Schumer’s Iran Position Is Stupid” — my @monthly column on the one issue area where Democrats should be helping Trump washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/06/sch…

billscher's tweet card. Trump pursuing options as part of a nuclear deal with Iran isn’t “outrageous.” Schumer shouldn’t get in the president’s way.

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Bill Scher@billscher · May 29

"The Trump administration has responded in seeming retaliatory fashion, opening up a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into James for suspicion of mortgage fraud." politico.com/news/magazine/…

SSam E. Antar@SamAntar · May 29

🔥 Politico just named Letitia James their “Shadow Attorney General.” And Bill Scher—who wrote the piece—didn’t mention a single word about her federal criminal investigation for mortgage fraud. That’s not journalism. That’s reputational laundering. FULL ARTICLE (10 M READ):…

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 24

“Give Democrats Some Credit for Chasing Republicans Out of Washington Early” — my latest for @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/23/giv…

billscher's tweet card. House Democrats pressured Speaker Mike Johnson into adjourning early by forcing votes on Jeffrey Epstein file disclosures.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 22

“Democrats should immediately announce that all talks about Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations are over.” “It’s not the Democrats’ job to keep the government open and have no say in how the federal government functions.” My case for the Washington @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/22/dem…

billscher's tweet card. Republicans broke the budget deal. Democrats should stop negotiating and let them keep the government open alone.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 18

“Likes Don’t Equal Votes” My @monthly look at the import of content creator Deja Foxx losing to Pima County Board of Supervisors member Adelita Grijalva in the AZ-07 primary washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/17/lik…

billscher's tweet card. Adelita Grijalva’s landslide win over Deja Foxx shows that real-world connections still matter more than social media influence in politics.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 15

Conspiracy promotion was and is integral to Trump’s MAGA movement. It defines Trump as oppositional to established institutions & forges a deep bond with cynics/skeptics. That’s why the Epstein Files bust threatens that bond. My @monthly column washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/14/tru…

billscher's tweet card. Trump hyped the Epstein files, then backpedaled. Can Democrats expose his conspiracy game without playing it themselves?

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 11

"Democrats Should Prepare for the Return of Debt Politics" My latest for the Washington @monthly, with far more questions than answers! washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/10/dem…

billscher's tweet card. Rising debt may force Democrats to revisit Clinton- and Obama-era strategies for balancing budgets and progressive priorities.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 10

"Don’t Laugh: Elon Musk Could Pull Off a Third Party" -- my cautionary take for the Washington @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/10/don…

billscher's tweet card. Could Elon Musk succeed where Ross Perot failed? With deep pockets and disaffected voters, a third party bid may be more plausible.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 10

“while abundance liberals are certainly right that some infrastructure projects have been slowed or stalled by regulations and public engagement processes … that is simply not the case with Biden’s rural broadband initiative.”

PPaul @glastris.bsky.social Glastris@glastris · Jul 9

When Ezra Klein told Jon Stewart that liberal regulations ruined Biden's broadband program, the clip went viral, with Elon Musk’s help. But the story wasn’t true—and the telecom monopolies who were the real saboteurs are still laughing. New @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/09/the…

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jul 2

"The Republican Budget Reconciliation Bill Is Awful. Just Ask Republicans." My latest Washington @monthly column: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/02/the…

billscher's tweet card. Senate Republicans passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill after telling us how ugly and terrible it is.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 27

Trump was supposed to shift government resources into vocational education and help lower-income people train for good-paying blue-collar jobs. You will be shocked to learn that is not what is happening. My Washington @monthly deep dive: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/tru…

billscher's tweet card. Trump promised to revitalize vocational training and help the working class. Instead, he's cutting workforce programs by a third.

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Washington Monthly@monthly · Jun 25

A longtime military and intelligence insider explains to @glastris why the failure to destroy Iran’s nuclear bunkers may have weakened U.S. power far beyond the Middle East: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/25/tru…

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 20

Great read, right on the money. GOP message is running into the wall at high speed.

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“Republicans, Not Democrats, Have the Messaging Problem” My @monthly look at the disastrous poll numbers for the One Big Beautiful Bill washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/19/rep…

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 20

“Republicans, Not Democrats, Have the Messaging Problem” My @monthly look at the disastrous poll numbers for the One Big Beautiful Bill washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/19/rep…

billscher's tweet card. While Democrats fret about messaging, Republicans discover Trump's campaign magic doesn't work for governing.

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Nate Weisberg@WeisbergNate · Jun 17

What Trump Is Doing to Latinos Is Literally Out of Cheech & Chong washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/17/wha…:

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 17

“What Trump Is Doing to Latinos Is Literally Out of Cheech & Chong” My latest for @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/17/wha…

billscher's tweet card. The video of an American wrongly accused of being an undocumented immigrant echoes the music video for Born in East L.A.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 13

“Why Obama’s Immigration Enforcement Policy Was Better Than Trump’s” My latest for @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/13/why…

billscher's tweet card. Obama prioritized the deportation of felons and security threats. Trump is giving us legal chaos, fewer deportations, and less safety.

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Bill Scher@billscher · Jun 10

How @elonmusk Can Kill Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill -- my latest for the Washington @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/10/how…

billscher's tweet card. The multibillionaire should quit attacking Trump and aim his fire at the president’s “disgusting abomination” of a bill.

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Washington Monthly@monthly · Jun 5

Politics Editor @billscher joins LiveNOW's Christina Evans to react to former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre leaving the Democratic Party... "Labeling yourself as an independent is hardly a solution to the problem the country faces." livenowfox.com/video/1652914

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Bill Scher@billscher · May 30

Musk & Trump are both cranks who used their wealth to feign governing competence But unlike Trump, Musk has learned—and accepted—that governing is harder than it looks More in my @monthly column washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/30/wha…

billscher's tweet card. Governing is complicated. Trump and Musk may have limited capacity for personal growth, but the rest of us can learn from their failure.

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