The New Republic

More than 12,000 men and women have served in Congress since 1789. But only six have received the highest honor that Congress can bestow—to...

It’s hard to find someone in Washington who doesn’t like Merrick Garland. There are Republicans who don’t like Barack Obama and accordingly...

Every spring, Americans flock to their local box store or nursery looking for ornamental plants—something to spruce up their front yard, per...

As we rapidly approach the point where the Covid-19 vaccine is available to all those who want it, the key constraint on reaching a suffici...

Feeding kids, as it turns out, is a good thing. Or at least that’s what the United States Department of Agriculture decided this week, as th...

Earlier this week, Florida Republicans enacted a law they claimed would prevent riots in the state. Its real purpose, of course, was to disc...

The European Super League, perhaps the biggest debacle in sports history, was born of desperation, and it showed. Twelve breakaway clubs—the...

On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed course on its decade-and-a-half-long push to reduce the most serious sentences for prisoners who com...

It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two yearsdenying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, theBrazilian...

When The Los Angeles Times asked Blake Bailey what he thought about Laura Marsh’s review of his Philip Roth biography in The New Republic, h...

The war over cancel culture is reaching new levels of absurdity. Earlier this year, Lucasfilm dropped the actress Gina Carano from its Star...

What did they know, and whendid they know it? That is, when did the Sackler family know that OxyContin, thedrug responsible for their vast...

On Thursday, while President Biden met with world leaders at the climate summit, the Senate Agriculture Committee convened to vote on the Gr...

There’s a troubling pattern in coverage of the White House’s new emissions target, formally announced Thursday morning as part of an interna...

Kara Ward started her life as a caregiver earlier than most people do. She was only 29 when her mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in 20...

On Monday, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the main character of the United States Senate, announced that he would co-sponsor one of the...

On October 7, 2020, Jalil Muntaqim exited the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York a free man. A member of the Black Panther P...

Most of the attention on how George Floyd died last year focused on the actions of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was con...

A few hours after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of three charges in the murder of George Floyd, Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, annou...

There might not be anything more embarrassing than getting scolded by Fox News host and reckless driver Jeanine Pirro on national television...

In the days to come, there will be plenty of commentary on the implications of Tuesday’s guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the bro...

Walter Mondale, who died Monday at 93, was the last presidential nominee to tell the truth about taxes. This experiment was judged a failure...

This year’s slate of nominees for the AcademyAwards brings Amiri Baraka to mind. In his 1965 essay “TheRevolutionary Theatre,” Baraka call...

What we grow determines how we eat, and what we eat determines how we live and die. These simple but overlooked truths drive the work of the...

German scandals are not like otherscandals. The bouquet of a classic German scandal contains unmistakable notes:a rabbit-hole impenetrabil...