The New Republic

Throughout history it’s been periodically suggestedthat America should amend the Constitution to make the president serve a singlesix-year...

My baby is 4 months old today, as I write these words. He’s been smiling for weeks already, but it has just started feeling like his smiles...

John and Revé Walsh’s lives changed on July 27, 1981, when Revé took her six-year-old son, Adam, to the Sears department store in a mall in...

In the fall of 2018, a Snapchat video began circulating in the wealthy Dallas suburb of Southlake, Texas. It showed a group of white high sc...

The snapshot was taken hastily on a cheap Instamatic camera out the back window of an SUV nearly 20 years ago. But my photo of dozens of joy...

Joe Biden is keeping another campaign promise. This time, that’s not a good thing.One of the cornerstones of Biden’s 2020 platform was to sh...

One way of interpreting the controversy currently roiling the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the relative importance of civil li...

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin isn’t sold on the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that could be this country’s last chance to pas...

I felt as though I had stumbled across a crime scene so violent that I couldn’t process it, let alone synthesize the images in front of me....

CNN has a Chris Cuomo problem—and the network only has itself to blame. Last spring, as Covid-19 spread like wildfire across the country, Ne...

Leegraciea Lewis had lived at the Landings at Steele Creek, an apartment complex in Charlotte, North Carolina, for eight years until she was...

If it’s now widely believed that life spent tethered to a smartphone is inherently suspect, performative, or false, the physicality of our d...

Andrew Cuomo’s resignation was inevitable. At the end, he had no support anywhere, from the president of the United States on down. And yet...

The longest-running political joke in America is nearing its end. The Senate on Tuesday voted 69–30 in favor of the $1 trillion Bipartisan I...

For the last 10 years, Andrew Cuomo has held onto power by bullying and belittling everyone in his path. He has been ruthless, taking on and...

On Tuesday, Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation as governor of New York. In his address to the state, he continued to deny the allegation...

Americans love few things more than bacon. American media outlets love few things more than running stories about bacon shortages. In 2012 i...

In mid-April, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took a victory lap. With Covid-19 vaccinations readily available and the pandemic surely coming...

The deep chasm in American political culture continues to open, and to generate irreconcilable positions on everything from climate change t...

Of all the many provisions jammed into the 2,700-page bipartisan infrastructure bill that’s teetering ever closer to passage, an unlikely on...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the first, nearly 4,000-page installment of its Sixth Assessment Report. The repo...

Quiz time: What is the current amount of the federal budget deficit?I’ll give the answer at the end of this column. For now, what you need t...

Last week, beleaguered Amazon workers and organizers received a rare gift from the government—two, in fact. The National Labor Relations Boa...