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Our Patented Early Warning System: From the very beginning, the Washington Monthly has had an almost uncanny ability to be out in front of the news. An early example is Gregg Easterbrook's 1980 cover story that foreshadowed the 1986 and 2003 space 
shuttle disasters by highlighting the solid-rocket booster and heat-shield tile problems that ultimately led to their loss, for precisely the reasons that Easterbrook forewarned. Then in October 1994, Senator Byron Dorgan predicted with uncanny accuracy that a then-new kind of Wall Street gambling — derivatives trading — could trigger the kind of financial meltdown that actually occurred in September 2008. And in an April 2004 cover story — "There Goes the Neighborhood" — then-editor Ben Wallace-Wells talked about how the cheap-credit-driven housing boom would collapse and take the economy down with it. And now we all know just how accurate that was.
