The Washington Monthly
Amy Stackhouse has extensive experience in editorial roles, currently serving as Managing Editor at The Washington Monthly since September 2006 and at Sugarbush Resort since June 2011. Stackhouse also holds a position as Copy Editor at Alfred A. Knopf since January 2000. Prior editorial roles include Copy Editor/Proofreader at the Alliance for Excellent Education from 2003 to 2014, Executive Editor at The Atlantic from October 2005 to August 2006, and Managing Editor at The American Prospect from September 1989 to September 1999. Stackhouse received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Government, as well as German, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where studies were completed between 1985 and 1989.
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The Washington Monthly
The Washington Monthly was founded in 1969 on the notion that a handful of plucky young writers and editors, armed with an honest desire to make government work and a willingness to ask uncomfortable questions, could tell the story of what really matters in Washington better than a roomful of Beltway insiders at a Georgetown dinner party. In our cluttered little downtown DC office, we’re still doing what we have done for more than 50 years, and what fewer and fewer publications do today: telling fascinating, deeply reported stories about the ideas and characters that animate America’s government. We don’t chase news cycles, or obsess over the endless political horse race. We care about how the government can be improved, and why it hasn’t; who’s a fraud and who isn’t; which ideas ought to be banished from the nation’s capital and which ones deserve to be championed. We’re not a subsidiary of some giant media company or a mouthpiece for ideologues. We’re an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on sacred cows—liberal and conservative. Instead of cynically tearing down institutions and programs, we offer innovative solutions: how to get the best people to work for the government and how to get the best government for the people; how to get teachers who can teach and social workers who can make welfare reform work. We believe in the great American traditions of civic responsibility, caring for the down and out, and giving the average person a break.