Red Herrings
This spring, conservative media took the message the president had soberly delivered in his State of the Union address—that “America will never be a socialist country”—and transformed it into a berserk...
View ArticleBig Pharma Is Pushing a Big Lie
In June of 2017, 26-year-old Alec Raeshawn Smith died on the floor of his apartment from diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition where, without insulin, the blood turns acidic and causes organ failure. His...
View ArticleTrump Declares War—on Accountability
The Trump administration has spent the past week refusing to give an inch, wielding executive privilege as a shield against every subpoena and request from Democrats. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary...
View ArticleAndrew Yang’s Disjointed Plan to Reform American Democracy
There are more than 20 Democratic candidates for president, and none are as technocratic as Andrew Yang. The New York–based entrepreneur and venture capitalist is running on an eclectic platform that...
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Sara Nelson’s Art of War
The most powerful labor leader in the country right now is about 5’5” in sneakers, though her work uniform generally adds an extra inch or two. As the president of the Association of Flight Attendants...
View ArticleICE’s Brazen Arrests Are Impeding Justice
Earlier this month, two men in street clothes rapidly approached defense attorney Mark Wester and his client in the hallway of the Marlborough District Court. After confirming the defendant’s identity,...
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Claire Denis’s Long Journey to Nowhere
Critics use the adjective “elliptical” a lot for Claire Denis’s movies. From a Greek word meaning “to fall short,” ellipses are the dot dot dot indicating a word left out from a sentence. The...
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Fire Forced Me From My Home. Then Water Trapped Me There.
I’ve lived in Idyllwild for the last 45 years. It’s a small town in the Southern California mountains, and it’s about a mile high where most people live. We don’t have any traffic lights. We don’t have...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Ask Not For Whom the Bells Toll
Each Monday, members of The New Republic staff will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones, now in its eight and final season. Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they...
View ArticleThis Is Not a “Constitutional Crisis”
A constitutional crisis, like a good first date, is typically self-evident. That’s what makes top Democrats’ sudden embrace of the term so jarring. “Certainly, it’s a constitutional crisis, although I...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Fight the Opioid Crisis. Why Don’t Other...
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is causing a stir in Trump country. In a rural West Virginia town with a population of 400, Warren spoke to a crowd of 150—many decked out in MAGA...
View ArticleThe Unstoppable Rise of Phoebe Waller-Bridge
In a scene about halfway through the new season of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who writes and stars in every episode, sits inside a confession booth in an old church. The fact that her character,...
View ArticleHow Gerrymandering Leads to Radical Abortion Laws
Stacey Abrams still hasn’t conceded that she lost to Brian Kemp in last year’s gubernatorial race in Georgia, and perhaps justifiably so. Kemp, formerly the secretary of state there, administered his...
View ArticleDemocrats Already Have a Position on Tariffs... If You Know Where to Look
Donald Trump’s trade war with China is not going well. Weeks after assuring people that trade negotiations between the two countries were on the “five yard line,” a sheepish Larry Kudlow, Trump’s chief...
View ArticleShould People Be Allowed to Get Rich on Global Warming?
The Trump administration does not usually acknowledge the reality of climate change. But it’s willing to make exceptions in certain cases—namely, where it sees that the coming planetary apocalypse...
View ArticleThe Very American Case of Robert Kraft and a Florida Prostitution Sting
Before February, Robert Kraft was mostly known for two things: winning six Super Bowl rings as owner of the New England Patriots, and losing one of them to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then...
View ArticleVideo Game Workers See Power in a Union
“I reported and he got promoted.”Those were the words on a hand-lettered sign held above nearly 200 employees of Riot Games—the publisher of the immensely popular multiplayer video game League of...
View ArticleJoe Biden Is Going Back to the Clinton Playbook
When Joe Biden made his first bid for president, he was forced to drop out after plagiarizing British Labour leader Neil Kinnock in a Democratic debate. Now, in his third run for the White House, Biden...
View ArticleNathan Glazer’s Life of the Mind
When I was 22 years old, Nathan Glazer, the Harvard professor of education and sociology who died this past January, stood for everything I was against. It was 1964, the year of the Berkeley student...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Sets His Sights on Biden
Bernie Sanders has a Joe Biden problem. The former vice president’s formal entry into the 2020 primary has cut into Sanders’s numbers, which have lagged in recent weeks. Already underwater with older...
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