The New Republic

In 1975, Adrienne Rich wrote a letter to the editor in The New York Review of Books, scoldingSusan Sontag for suggestingthat contemporary...

When I was an undergraduate, long ago, there was a legend at my college concerning a student who was up for a summa cum laude degree in Engl...

Early in the morning of April 1, Texas state Senator Bryan Hughes, a Republican who represents a rural district in the northeast part of the...

As she fought to keep her job as the third-most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, Liz Cheney returned again and again to...

A lot of people in Austin do this job. I knew that it was moderation. I knew that I would be looking at gross content. There’s a lot of turn...

For all the talk of constructing a wall on America’s southern border over the past five years, one of the Trump-era notions less discussed o...

Last week, the New York Times reported on the upcoming opening of what will be America’s second functional lithium mine—a signal of the nati...

The Biden administration currently has two major initiatives to fight joblessness in America. One is the American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion p...

Too many American workers have become layabouts living off the government dole. That’s the message—same as it ever was—being sent by some bu...

TheCovid-19 pandemic has laid bare many fault lines in American society, from thesavage inequalities of our health care system to the coll...

For years, Donald Trump groused about the ugly architecture in Washington. And then, in December, in the waning days of his presidency, he h...

They went to ground as John Kerry was “reporting for duty” at the Democratic National Convention, deftly avoiding the release of Princess Di...

In 2021, anything can be turned into culture-war fodder. Republicans are hoarding Goya beans and Aunt Jemima syrup to own the libs. The Mupp...

I’ve been thinking a lot about Liz Cheney. Her courage in standing up to Donald Trump and the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party sh...

Israeli security forces spent the weekend beating and arresting Palestinian worshipers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site...

In Silicon Valley, what passes for innovation often means copying the hot new thing, and right now that new thing is Clubhouse: an app that...

As WikiLeaks was riding to global fame a decade ago by publishing archives of leaked American military and diplomatic files, its founder, Ju...

Last August, Missouri voters made themselves perfectly clear when they voted to expand the state’s Medicaid program, passing a ballot measur...

Last week, on 60 Minutes+, journalist Wesley Lowery visited Manhattan Beach, California, to cover a century-old story about a Black family t...

Not so long ago, Liz Cheney was being presented as “a new thought leader for the GOP” and even the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. As Do...

In the last several years, the fossil fuel industry has tried to paint itself as being on a smooth path toward a clean energy future. Its me...

No one everbelieved that reality television was totally real. Thirty-one days before TheReal World premiered on MTV in 1992—a one-off abou...

When Republicans began reformulating their tax philosophy in the late 1970s, they looked to their party’s policies in the 1920s for inspirat...

In March, federal agents raided the Beverly Hills premises of a company called U.S. Private Vaults. According to asubsequent grand jury ind...

In early April, the state of Washington managed to do what once seemed impossible: successfully pass a bill establishing carbon pricing. It...