Look, John Roberts Actually Did an Unambiguously Good Thing for Once!
On Monday the Supreme Court told Donald Trump he can proceed full steam ahead to construct his monstrous ballroom. That’s not because the project is lawful: the per curiam 5-4 order on the shadow...
View ArticleThe Legal Wreckage of the Supreme Court’s Ballroom Follies
President Donald Trump is building an illegal ballroom on the ruins of the White House’s East Wing, which he destroyed last fall. Congress forbade the construction of any building on federal property...
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Nancy Lemann’s Wasted Youths
Youth may be wasted on the young, but what if the young are already wasted? The writer Nancy Lemann coined the term “wastrel-youth contingent” to describe characters who squander their early adulthood...
View ArticleTrump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence
Donald Trump returned to power in large part through a campaign of scapegoating, promising to rescue his supporters from the immigrants and transgender people who he claimed endangered America. That...
View ArticlePioneering Feminist Gloria Steinem Passes Away at 92
Trailblazing women’s rights leader Gloria Steinem has died.She passed away peacefully in her New York City residence, according to a statement posted Thursday on her Instagram account. She was...
View ArticleTrump Says to Vote for Ken Paxton Even Though He’s Dumb and Ugly
President Donald Trump just let everyone know how he really feels about Ken Paxton.Speaking at a dinner at the White House Rose Garden Wednesday, Trump promised to campaign for the Texas attorney...
View ArticleTrump Secretly Plans to Ramp Up Iran War After November Elections
President Trump is planning to escalate military action against Iran after November, as his inner circle scrambles to keep him from intensifying the war before the midterms. Reuters reports that White...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Pressures CDC into Fudging Measles Death Toll
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to remove two measles deaths from the Pennsylvania tally, in an effort to fudge the numbers...
View ArticleTrump Has Bonkers Excuse for Commerce Sec. Saying No One Died in Iran
Following the president’s example, Trump officials have taken to saying whatever comes to mind with little regard for the significance of their office, or the truth. Donald Trump defended one such...
View ArticleAfter 5-Week Vacation, House Suddenly Takes Off the Rest of September
Republican House leadership has announced that the largest U.S. governing body will be taking a massive fall break, seriously cutting legislative calendar before November’s midterm elections. This...
View ArticleSailors Finally Off USS Lincoln Say It Was “Worst” Deployment Ever
Sailors fresh off the USS Abraham Lincoln have some serious concerns about their record-setting deployment. MS NOW’s Priya Sridhar appeared on The Last Word Wednesday night after speaking with some of...
View ArticleBillionaire Leon Black Sues House for Trying to Ask Him About Epstein
Leon Black, a billionaire investor with millions of dollars in financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, refused to appear before Congress Thursday.Black had appeared before the committee for a voluntary,...
View ArticleTrump Finds New Way to Target Schools That Support Non-White Students
The Trump administration has found a new way to target Black and brown students at American universities—by giving white kids all their money. The Department of Treasury proposed a new rule Thursday...
View ArticleIs This District the Key to the 2026 Midterms?
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonIs this district the key...
View ArticleGrowing Number of Republicans Are Sick of “Inept” Pete Hegseth
At least two Republicans in Congress are now calling for Pete Hegesth’s ouster as secretary of defense.Following Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation on Wednesday, Senator Thom Tillis called for...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Hasn’t Killed DEI in America
This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. Perry Bacon: This is Right Now on The New Republic. I’m Perry Bacon, I’m the host. I’m joined by Natasha...
View ArticleEvery Democrat Who Voted to Defund Schools That Boycott Israel
On Thursday, 33 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a law that would take federal funding away from academic institutions involved in any kind of boycott of or divestment from Israel. The legislation...
View ArticleICE Officer Charged With Lying to Investigators After Shooting Someone
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.The Associated Press, citing an...
View ArticleWidow of Airman Killed in Iran War Says She Was Denied Benefits
A U.S. military widow whose husband was killed in the Iran war claims that she is being denied death benefits.Libby Klinner, the widow of U.S. Air Force Major John “Alex” Klinner, who died in a crash...
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Walmart and Target Pull a Literal Nazi Costume Off Their Websites
Walmart has pulled a Nazi costume from its inventory after facing a typhoon of public blowback.The outfit was made by Orion Costumes and marketed as a “German Army Soldier Adult Costume” that included...
View ArticleTrump Wants to Permanently Shut Historic Site for Protests
President Donald Trump is taking extraordinary efforts to keep protesters out of his eyeline. Trump officials will present plans Thursday to install permanent fencing around Lafayette Square Park in...
View ArticlePentagon Mysteriously Pulls Hegseth’s Testosterone Screening Memo
The Pentagon on Thursday took down recently published clinical guidance for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mandatory testosterone screening requirements for troops.Before Thursday, the Pentagon’s...
View ArticleJD Vance Says You Should Be Grateful Gas Prices Aren’t Even Higher
Vice President JD Vance thinks Americans should be more grateful that gas prices aren’t higher.Speaking to the press at the White House Thursday, Vance said that the U.S. was the only country capable...
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Washington Post Uses Photo of Wrong ’60s Icon on Gloria Steinem Obit
One of America’s largest newspapers made an elementary-level error in its obituary for Gloria Steinem.Thousands of readers who learned of the trailblazing feminist’s death via The Washington Post’s...
View ArticleLeaked Video Shows Flock Taught Cops How to Hunt No Kings Protesters
Flock Safety, the company behind the dystopian surveillance systems popping up in U.S. cities, is training law enforcement officers to use its products to surveil “No Kings” protests, 404Media reported...
View ArticleHegseth and Co. Are Trying to Steal Other Agencies’ Funds, Dems Say
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee have accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon of trying to steal funds from the National Institutes of Health to make up for the record...
View ArticleWhat Do the Centrists Stand For? Here’s the Uninspiring Answer.
This primary season, most of the energy and attention on the Democratic side has been on progressive candidates who overperformed in races around the country, sometimes despite steep funding...
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
The global decline in fertility is one of the major stories of the twenty-first century—maybe even the major story. It is built into our brains, bones, and infrastructure that we live in a growing and...
View ArticleMAGA Dimwit James Comer Blurts Out Bombshell: Trump Badly Screwing GOP
It isn’t every day that Republicans admit that Donald Trump is harming their midterm hopes. After all, that would require an admission of Trumpian fallibility, which is unacceptable to MAGA. But on...
View ArticleHow Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?
Happy Labor Day! (Well, almost.) There’s no better time to assess President Donald Trump’s labor market and labor policies in advance of November’s midterm elections.Let’s start with the labor market....
View ArticleIs Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage?
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters—the superstorm Hurricane Helene that blasted the...
View ArticleTrump Spirals After Missouri Supreme Court Hands Him Massive Loss
President Donald Trump crashed out on Thursday night after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down Republican redistricting efforts ahead of midterm elections—changing the House map after the primary...
View ArticleThe Stunning Reason Fox News Fired Maria Bartiromo Exposed
Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo was fired for leaking information about her employer to the White House, Status reported Thursday.Bartiromo’s sudden termination stemmed from President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump Reveals Why He Keeps Launching New Vanity Projects
President Donald Trump admitted that he’s just building monuments to himself. In a sprawling dispatch Friday, New York Magazine’s Ben Terris asked Trump what he made of a viral barb from Jon Ossoff, a...
View ArticleJohn Fetterman Keeps Blowing Off People He Represents to Talk on Fox
Embattled Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman blew off meetings with disabled veterans, the families of slain police officers, children’s hospital officials, and countless constituents in...
View ArticleDonald Trump Has No Idea of the Tidal Wave That’s Coming for Him
On this cusp of Labor Day, when election campaigns kick into fourth gear, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I have to say it: The voters are going to barber-strap Donald Trump in the November...
View ArticleTrump Team Turns Their Horrific Deportation Policy Into a Video Game
Donald Trump’s administration has made a game of the president’s deadly crackdown on immigrants.The White House launched a new arcade website Thursday that hosts a series of retro-style video games...
View ArticleFox News Isolated Maria Bartiromo for Weeks Before Firing Her
New details from Maria Bartiromo’s sudden firing from Fox News reveal internal upheaval that resulted in her being completely isolated at work, as her own staff was banned from speaking to her and her...
View ArticleTrump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington President Donald...
View ArticleGloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
I have many books about feminism on my bookshelf, but only one by Gloria Steinem. It’s an old copy, possibly a first edition, of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, the book she considered her...
View ArticleEx-Trump Labor Secretary Went to Strip Club on Taxpayers’ Dime
A Thursday report from the Inspector General states that former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer went to a strip club while on the job, even forcing her driver to rain dollar bills on one of the...
View ArticleHow to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
I confess that the vast majority of what I know about political influencer Hasan Piker came from this April interview he did with TNR contributor Aaron Regunberg. I’m constitutionally unsuited for that...
View ArticleThey Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
For a little while there, I became very interesting. Not more accomplished, so far as I could tell, and certainly not more experienced. I had not added a degree, been instrumental in a startup’s exit,...
View ArticleThis Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America
On Labor Day 2026, the outlook for workers can seem grim. The Trump administration is rolling back workplace protections, and corporations act as though they have a free pass to do whatever they want....
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How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
It used to be that the president of the United States tried to persuade the public to go to war. Franklin Roosevelt’s speech asking Congress to enter World War II produced one of the most famous...
View ArticleTrump Tailspins as Leaks about GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn
Donald Trump’s tailspinning continues. A CNN analysis finds that Trump has a lower approval rating than any of his predecessors going into midterms in this millennium. That’s worse than Joe Biden in...
View ArticleIs This Really the Left’s Big Moment? We’ll Know in Two Months.
It didn’t take long after the primary polls closed on August 18 for Jared Moskowitz, a moderate Democrat who has represented a South Florida congressional district since 2023, to declare victory—not...
View ArticleTrump’s Midterm Convention Will Yield a Bounce All Right—for Democrats
You must be as excited as I am for this week’s GOP midterm convention. I’m being serious—well, kind of. I’m excited because a midterm convention is such a preposterous notion, such a display of...
View ArticleDobbs’s Near-Total Destruction of Abortion Rights Across the South
Thousands of patients across the southeastern United States are now being forced to travel more than 250 miles to access abortion care in North Carolina, according to a study recently published by The...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Tailspins as GOP Leaks Humiliating Truth: He’s Toxic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
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