The New Republic

When the Supreme Court was first established in 1789, the United States was small enough that the justices could review decisions in lower c...

Hao-Yuan Cheng is a night owl. So when an alert buzzed his phone in the early morning of December 31, 2019, he saw it almost immediately. Tr...

One night last summer, I saw a police van go up in flames, and I allowed myself to feel hope, something that had become quite foreign to me...

There are a lot of hidden trip wires on the road to a greener economy. One of the biggest is the network of investor protections through whi...

On April 21, the far-right magazine ValeursActuelles launched the kind of perfectly timed volley that sends Frenchpolitical and media life...

OnThursday, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire, putting a tentative end to 11days of fighting that began with protests over the eviction...

In the aftermath of a delicate ceasefire coming on the heels of ten days of Israeli airstrikes that killed some 230 Palestinians, Gaza’s hea...

At the Associated Press, college activism is apparently a fireable offense. On Thursday, the venerable news organization sent an email infor...

A central problem in labor economics is how to raise wages without first killing off a significant portion of the workforce. Plagues have hi...

There’s a scene in Those Who Wish Me Dead where Allison Sawyer, a heavily pregnant side character played by Medina Senghore, blasts a bad gu...

The title of Joseph Darda’s new book, How White Men Won the Culture Wars, may land awkwardly for weary followers of recursive debates over c...

Last August, as yet another season of historic wildfires ripped through the West and sent plumes of smoke drifting across the continent, rep...

“Social justice” might seem, at first, like a perfectly innocuous phrase, safe enough for brands like Aflac, Mountain Dew, Disney, and Pizza...

On April 30, the online UFO community lit up with excitement. The New Yorker, the most luxe of news magazines, published a major UFO article...

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, there was a commission. When an assassin killed John F. Kennedy, there was a commission. Each time a Space...

The office novel is a deceptively orderly genre. Its settings are quiet cubicles and solitary glass towers; its characters share a carefully...

On Chinese New Year a few months ago, my parents showed me President Joe Biden’s Lunar New Year greeting. Against a backdrop of traditional...

Since they were first introduced in the 1970s, tax credits for renewables have helped scale up and dramatically reduce the cost of clean pow...

There is almost no schadenfreude in the Matt Gaetz downfall. The latest chapter unfolded Monday, with the Florida congressman’s ostensibly n...

It was almost cryptocurrency’s Black Wednesday. In the space of a few hours, Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, from about $43,000 to...

Most of the attention on the Supreme Court this week focused on the court’s decision to hear a major abortion-rights case this fall. As I no...

John Kerry’s interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday was a masterclass in equivocation. The first-ever Special Presidential Envoy for...

In 1983, the director Mike Nichols was rehearsing Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway. The cast included Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ch...

In Minden, Nevada, a cherry-red siren, perched atop the town’s volunteer fire department, sounds every evening at 6 p.m. on the dot. If you...

What atrocities a human being is capable of and the psychic torments she might or might not suffer in consequence are, to a disturbing degre...