The New Republic

It’s fairly easy by now to identify the problems that extreme wealth creates in a society: the way it corrupts politics, the way it sequeste...

Last week was a difficult one in the American West, a region now facing three overlapping climate crises: a megadrought rounding the corner...

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on Monday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot restrict certain education benefit...

In mid-April, Rupert Murdoch’s News UK announced that it would be scaling back their plans to launch a new television service in Britain, ai...

After some Republican-leaning bishopscondemned John Kerry, the Catholic presidential candidate in 2004, for hissupport of abortion rights,...

Do you remember last November, when Arizona’s electoral votes hadn’t yet been called in the presidential election, and pro-Trump forces gath...

The queer right to assemble has long existed in tension with the state, and that’s not resolved with the inclusion or exclusion of police at...

Last year was a disturbingly violent one for New York City, which suffered nearly 150 more homicides and around 750 more shootings than in 2...

The politics of Gilded Age America has always lent itself to a certain mock-heroic streak in historical storytelling; the name of the era co...

Paper TrailIn the fall of 2019, on my first visit to Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, an exhibition of Janet Malcolm’s writings,...

Last week, I criticized West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for announcing that he would vote against the For the People Act on purely perform...

President Joe Biden has proposed a tax increase that you may not have heard about. It would make the tax code more progressive without extra...

I started reading Janet Malcolm the year I came to the United States. Encountering her work felt like emerging from ignorance—revelatory and...

India Walton greets me alone at her campaign office, which is actually just a one-desk room in a co-working space, sparsely decorated but fo...

A week after the G7 patted itself on the back for agreeing to charitably hand out 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, (“a drop in the oc...

On June 10, 2019, John Lewis took to the floor of the House of Representatives to tout a piece of legislation that he and his colleagues, in...

As a lifelong fan of musical theater, it gives me no pleasure to admit that it’s an art form with often iffy ideological undercurrents—a lan...

In the September 1970 issue of the radical feminist magazine off our backs, an anonymous author asked, “Who are our real allies in a revolut...

Only one side is officially fighting the culture war over “critical race theory.” Republican elected officials have not only denounced “crit...

On Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued an injunction on the Biden...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Catholic foster-care agency in Philadelphia that refused to help place children with same-sex cou...

The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot bid to overturn the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, once again saving the landmark health-care law f...

Using the discharge of incendiary devices across the wall that hems in the Gaza Strip against the Mediterranean Sea as justification, Israel...

Crystal Jackson and her husband live with their three-year-old son in rural Arkansas. Crystal’s husband, Keith, who is 39, was born with cer...