The New Republic

United Airlines announced this week that it will purchase at least 15 supersonic Overture jets, at $200 million a pop, from a startup called...

For years, Facebook has had two sets of rules—if not more—for its users. One set applied to everyday people on its platform: your mom, your...

Not so long ago, you could be forgiven for thinking of Bill Gates as the good tech billionaire. Microsoft, the software company he co-founde...

It cannot be said enough that—beyond installing Federalist Society–approved judges and lowering taxes for corporations and the rich—today’s...

There’s a scene in the 2011 film Moneyball when Brad Pitt’s Billy Beane is mentoring young Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) on how to cut a professi...

An unnamed Democratic congressional aide told The Washington Post this week that the mood in his party is “panic.” The cause of that panic i...

As Israel prepared to remove Palestinian families to make way for settlers in East Jerusalem, and launched airstrikes on Gaza that demolishe...

Gird your loins, folks, because it’s infrastructure week again. White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told the media that this, the fi...

One day at work, well before being elected to Congress, Cori Bush got a call from her godmother. “She had a dream my house burned down,” Bus...

President Joe Biden is fond of using a quote from his father to criticize Republicans: “Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget an...

When the United States Senate was called into recess on January 6 at 2:13 p.m., Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough stood from her s...

Last week, Secretary Jennifer Granholm joined San Francisco-based radio station KQED’s “Political Breakdown” to talk about the task of runni...

Let’s say you’re a hacker who wants to extort money from a big corporation. A decade or two ago, you might have hacked into their systems, s...

Like many of us, Charlie Brown and his not entirely devoted dog, Snoopy, were always looking for ways out of the difficult and sometimes ugl...

Republican governor and former MAGA acolyte Ron DeSantis has focused more on climate during his first term than would be expected of most ri...

Two bad omens for American democracy appeared in Texas over the Memorial Day weekend. One of them involved Michael Flynn, the former nationa...

Michael Flynn, the retired general who briefly served as Donald Trump’s national security advisor before being fired for lying about convers...

Since the surprise announcement earlier this month of Bill and Melinda Gates’ impending divorce, dirt has been piling up on one side. During...

FormerMSNBC host Chris Matthews has made a career out of a certain image of Americanpolitics. It’s a nostalgic vision of the heyday of bar...

This Friday at 10 a.m., two years after he should have done so, former White House counsel Don McGahn will testify before the House Judiciar...

Even within the walls of the World TradeOrganization, the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, or TRIPS, is a p...

All across the country, at grocery stores, nightclubs, and construction sites, police officers are standing guard: uniforms on, guns in hols...

If you were to read the headlines—and the headlines alone—about former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Thursday speech at the Reagan Library, you...

If you don’t want to know the ending to Mare of Easttown (or Sharp Objects, or The Woman in the Window, or the very last case of Jane Tennis...

After decades of exhausting climate change denial, we’re now in the new era of disingenuous corporate environmentalism, all while companies...