The New Republic

How did New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is set to resign this month after sexual harassment allegations and a cover-up of nursing home d...

In 2009, John Kerry, then the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, invited a panel of post-9/11 veterans to testify on the...

President Biden has been lauded for his capacity for empathy, and particularly his ability to connect with those who are grieving through a...

For those of us anxious about climate change, last week feltlike a lot. In addition to witnessing the ongoing present-day fallout of climat...

It began as a natural, unplanned experiment. In March 2020, when schools shut down to curb the spread of Covid-19, the system charged with k...

Of all the recently departed thinkers who might have helped us puzzle through the dismal political, intellectual, and socioeconomic prospect...

As Freddy Martinez tracked the latest impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Twitter, he saw a screencap of a CNN broadcast that st...

The news about how social media companies might handle the resurgence of the Taliban is fragmented and conflicting. According to early repor...

While the United States lost the Afghan War a long time ago, the scale of the defeat became undeniable when Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sun...

In 1992, an electrician named Robert Joiner sued Monsanto, the immense and powerful agrochemical corporation that had, for many years, manuf...

Former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon, indicted oncharges of fraud and money laundering last summer, is plotting a political comeback....

The dust had seemed to settle on questions of school reopening—one of the most polarizing political debates of the pandemic. In the spring o...

The term “Stockholm syndrome” comes from a 1973 bank heist that started out perfectly normally. An experienced robber named Jan-Erik Olsson...

Joe Biden delivered Monday’s speech with grim determination as he tried to both take—and deflect—responsibility for the greatest American mi...

It would be fair to say that the eyes of the nation are not currently focused on the uphill battle to advance voting rights legislation in C...

From its inception in 2001 to its ignominious end, the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been defined by lies. It was a lie when, in 2001, Preside...

As the Taliban reconquers Afghanistan, producing bloody scenes of reprisals and desperate attempts to get on some of the last planes out of...

Last week I wrote about the gap between Democratic leaders’ rhetoric about the climate crisis and the reality of their actions, put in stark...

It was tragic to watch events unfolding yesterday in Kabul. Blame Joe Biden for a terrible miscalculation based on intelligence estimates th...

In politics, the rule is treated as immutable, like the law of gravity that Isaac Newton supposedly conceived while sitting under an apple t...

As the Covid-19 virus experiences its second life in the form of the Delta variant, the lion’s share of national attention has focused on ho...

A very bad idea has picked up more steam than it deserves inrecent days: Fed up with surging Delta cases and lagging vaccination rates,com...

For Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, a week of momentous accomplishments has wrapped up. On Tuesday, the Senate advanced a $1 trillion in...

Friday was supposed to be a big day. “The morning of August 13 it’ll be the talk of the world,” Mike Lindell, the MyPillow impresario and pu...

Accountability is a rare thing in modern American politics, and it’s been dismally lacking in the wake of January 6. Though hundreds of Capi...