The New Republic

Forty years ago, when the right wing was first ascendant in this country, the nation was introduced to some exotic characters the likes of w...

Ash is settling across the Mediterranean, where wildfires have raged for the better part of August. As extreme heat scorched Europe, the mer...

As the American withdrawal from Afghanistan accelerated toward catastrophe—the Taliban sweeping across the country, tens of thousands of Afg...

It didn’t take long after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan for nonfiction about captive or oppressed Muslim women to begin trending on Go...

Lawmakers may wish that someone would wake them up when September ends, but unfortunately, there is simply too much for Congress to do next...

The story seems to always go like this: A Democratic administration wants to pass a major policy initiative. Democrats, in theory, have the...

It’s been some time since public school curricula sat at the center of America’s culture wars, but panicked parent politics have returned wi...

Theearly media assessments of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal were asconsistent as they were overheated: It was a “catastrophe,” a “dis...

Kathy Hochul, who becomes the new governor of New York on Tuesday, can count herself fortunate that her state has forgotten just how closely...

Earlier this month, more than 150 companies signed an open letter calling on Congress “to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act,...

Criticism of President Biden over the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has reached a fever pitch in recent days, amid repo...

Last year, while promising better pandemic-era treatment for their workers, gig companies like Lyft and Uber proceeded to pour more than $20...

Practice, alas, makes perfect. It took an agonizing, heart-rending week, but Joe Biden finally hit the right tone and seemingly the right st...

On a warm June evening in downtown Manhattan, tourists hoping to visit the National September 11 Memorial & Museum are disappointed. The spo...

“It’s time for us to resist,” Rand Paul says, railing against vaccine and mask mandates, “lockdown measures,” and other pandemic interventio...

A depressingly familiar theme has dominated the reports and commentary that have surfaced in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afg...

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.… It is the only one in...

On Thursday, the U.S. Capitol became the locus of national attention again when a man claiming to have explosives in his truck forced a stan...

Is history made by individual actors—by so-called great men—orby vast, impersonal social forces? Tolstoy, in War and Peace, saw history as...

The Supreme Court receives thousands of requests each term to review lower-court decisions. The justices typically only agree to consider a...

Twenty-five years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act into law, following through on his...

Last week, the world shook twice. The first shock hit Haiti, when a magnitude-7.2 earthquake erupted beneath the island’s southern peninsula...

As the Village and the far right continue to heap their scorn on Joe Biden for the way pulling out of Afghanistan has unleashed chaos in Kab...

This summer, the lines at vaccination centers suddenly got shorter. After a few desperate months of shot chasing and limited supply, it seem...

The four great prose works of W.G. Sebald were published around the turn of the millennium, a period once perceived by some as the end of hi...