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When I graduated from college in 1991, Naomi Wolf was a feminist icon, and the only person of or close to my generation who merited the desi...

On Wednesday, TC Energy, the Canadian company backing the Keystone XL pipeline, announced the official cancellation of the controversial pro...

The politician as novelist is certainly nothing new. Bored, famous, and perhaps hoping to distract from the inevitable reassessment of their...

The Trump administration’s goal for the Interior Department was clear the moment the former president took office: From top to bottom, the I...

Over the next few months, editors at The New Republic are choosing their favorite episodes of The Politics of Everything. Summer Pick #1Epis...

The Senate voted 68-32 Tuesday to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a wide-ranging package promoted by Senate Majority Leader Ch...

After a somewhat obscure court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case, reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, the Biden administratio...

“The Fox of 2021 is different even than the Fox of 2019.” That was the key point that CNN anchor Brian Stelter wanted to stress in his recen...

“Politics stops at the water’s edge,” was the maxim of Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican sponsor of the 1948 Senate resolution that bore his...

For climate advocates worried that Republicans and swing-Democrats like Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are about to torpedo green i...

With early voting beginning in New York City this weekend, the mayoral candidates have taken to the airwaves to make their closing arguments...

This is a strange moment for Dr. Anthony Fauci to reemerge as the right’s public enemy number one. The United States is only averaging about...

Monday night, Merrick Garland’s Justice Department shocked a lot of people by filing a brief in federal court effectively shielding Donald T...

The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On th...

At the end of April, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Brandi Levy, a high school cheerleader, who posted “Fuck school f...

Last September, an obscure, 36-year-old documentarian named Christopher Rufo landed a slot on Tucker Carlson Tonight. Knowing the president...

Over 15 books, one play, and many shorter published prose pieces, Rachel Cusk has accrued a reputation for regality. Although her subject ha...

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s problem is twofold. First, he fetishizes bipartisanship during one of the most hyper-partisan eras of mo...

The transition was supposed to be a smooth one. After President Joe Biden tapped Michael Regan, head of North Carolina’s Department of Envir...

The structural integrity of his brain might be questionable, but if anyone can spot a scam, it’s former President Donald Trump, whose busine...

Several months into the largest mass vaccination campaign in U.S. history, nearly half the country’s residents have yet to get a shot. While...

Well, it’s looking pretty grim. Last week, Kyrsten Sinema said that the filibuster, which for decades was used chiefly to sustain apartheid...

In November 2006, Niall Ferguson traveled to the Bahamas. Then aprofessor of history at Harvard, he had been invited to address MorganStan...

In 2009, Senator John Ensign, a Republican from Nevada, acknowledged that he had had an affair with a staffer. The authorities took notice w...

President Donald Trump infamously labeled the press the “enemy of the people” and routinely suggested that negative stories about him were i...