The New Republic

As I warned last October, Republicans planted a fiscal timebomb two years ago in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019. What they did at the tim...

On New Year’s Day in 1889, a religious leader of the Northern Paiute Indigenous tribe had a dream during a solar eclipse. He was whisked to...

Millions of renters who have been unable to pay their rent during the Covid-19 pandemic received a temporary, last-minute reprieve last mont...

The first season of Ted Lasso, Apple TV’s streaming series about an American college football coach (Jason Sudeikis) who takes over a top-fl...

Finally, no joke, it’s Infrastructure Week. At least, that was last week’s scuttlebutt—senators from both parties dismissed last Wednesday’s...

It would be callous to suggest that in the dark, early, and deadly days of the Covid-19 pandemic there were bright spots or signs of hope. B...

It’s about time America became disenchanted with foodies. Pig, Michael Sarnoski’s foodie noir about loss, love, and labor in Portland, Orego...

When the protests against the Cuban government broke out across the island on July 11, one of President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s first reactions...

In late July of 1957, America’s finest writer of horror stories replied to a certain Mrs. White, “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake...

As the multitrillion-dollar infrastructure bill wends its way through Congress, its exact parameters and legislative outcome remain uncertai...

Over the last six months, Republicans have tried to rewrite the history of the January assault on the Capitol, casting a violent attempt to...

Smoke from raging, climate-fueled wildfires out West blanketed East Coast skies this week. Siberia is burning, too. And flooding in China ha...

It was the middle of June, and my mother had just died.“It’s 112 degrees in Seattle,” someone told me.“Fuck you,” I recall responding. “My m...

With much of Washington focused on griping over an infrastructure bill and the makeup of a House committee that will investigate the January...

“OK, well how’s everyone feel about kidnapping?” a 37-year-old weightlifter and militia member named Adam Fox asked last July, over an encry...

“I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer,” Jeff Bezos said Tuesday on returning from the edge of outer space, “...

After six months of indecision, President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday—finally—a nominee for one of the most crucial positions in his admi...

In the past week, the United States and Europe have tossed a once-obscure climate policy into the spotlight: carbon tariffs, or “border adju...

Few people enjoy going to the dentist. But generally speaking, we don’t question what’s done to us when we’re there. On Episode 33 of The Po...

There’s never been a more curious work in Edgar Allan Poe’s oeuvre than his 1848 epic, Eureka: A Prose Poem. A freewheeling attempt to descr...

The scene at Los Angeles’s Wi Spa on Saturday was disorienting: Anti-trans feminists carrying signs with slogans like “protect female spaces...

It’s never been easier for governments to covertly access and monitor the phones of activists, journalists, dissidents, politicians, and, we...

Almost exactly one month ago, Joe Biden stood outside the White House flanked by a bipartisan group of senators and announced they had reach...

There is a moment near the end of Space Jam: A New Legacy, the new Looney Tunes–LeBron James crossover product that is less a movie and more...

In a unanimous decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that universities’ long-standing practice of colluding through the NCAA to limit...