The New Republic

It’s rare that U.S. foreign policy makes much of a dent in domestic politics—did anyone, outside of the families of military members and ref...

America’s retreat from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war, $2 trillion in taxpayer dollars, and 2,448 dead servicemembers is nearly co...

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, is something of a Rorschach test for climate activists and policy wonks. For incrementalist...

Something important is happening this week, something that never would have happened if Donald Trump had been re-elected or if the Republica...

After four years of Donald Trump, not much is holding what little is left of the GOP’s establishment wing together. Formerly mainstream Repu...

Barely two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo—already postponed a year due to the pandemic—organizers anno...

Ashli Babbitt should be alive right now. A Capitol Police officer shot and killed the 35-year-old woman on January 6 outside the House chamb...

It’s not every day that the senate majority leader weighs in on a local fossil fuel infrastructure fight. It’s also not every day that—flank...

On Friday, the White House announced a potentially important, if modest, effort to further tamp down the power of the technology industry. T...

News travels slowly in the summer months, so you may have missed this week’s signal that the Great American Labor Shortage of 2021 is easing...

August 15, 1971, was a fateful day in the history of American economic policy: President Richard Nixon imposed far-ranging wage and price co...

Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir about growing up in rural Ohio, was often touted as a work of sociology that illuminat...

We may one day recall the summer of 2021 as defined by proliferating climate catastrophes, the Afghan war withdrawal, a desperate effort to...

More than a few things foiled Donald Trump’s plan to hold onto power after the 2020 election. One was the fact that he received nearly seven...

One way or another, U.S. liquefied natural gas is on course for a reckoning. One batch of bad news for the industry came in May, when the In...

As the first term of the Mitch McConnell–engineered 6–3 right-wing Supreme Court supermajority drew to a close last week, most liberal obser...

It is by now something of a shared joke among its fans that the movie A Quiet Place, the surprise hit of 2018, a horror story in which alien...

For Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, decades of climate denial aren’t nearly enough. With the planet rapidly warming and extreme weather events...

“We’re going to hold big tech very accountable,” said former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Holding forth in 91 degree heat in Bedmins...

Stephen Breyer did something last week that even some Supreme Court watchers may not have noticed, focused as people were on the flood of la...

On Sunday, J.D. Vance—the author and Ron Howard muse turned GOP gubernatorial candidate—tried to repent for committing the cardinal sin of p...

I spent my Fourth of July holiday this year like most others did: spending time with friends and family, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and...

To summarize North American fossil fuel derangement, you only need two sentences: The Gulf of Mexico was on fire this weekend. On Monday, th...

What madeBill Barr such a bad attorney general? The question is of more than historicalinterest, as pundits have begun to grapple with the...

The deal Walmart has inked with Novo Nordisk, that will allow them to sell the Danish drug manufacturer’s short-acting Novolog insulin for $...