The New Republic

“What is infrastructure?” Somehow, this is the question under debate right now, thanks to America’s antiquated political system, which has m...

One night in 2016, during “a crack-fueled, cross-country odyssey” that he recalls in his new memoir Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden saw an ow...

Democracies depend on law; authoritarian systems prefer legal theater. In recent cases having to do with religion, the conservative majority...

Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s self-proclaimed image as a reform-minded state gradually opening to the world, the country’s human rights situati...

Over the past 25 years, Fox News has turned both cable news and partisan propaganda into a science. Obsessed with breaking down ratings to t...

What counts as infrastructure? Critics of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan are already in a huff that the administration’s proposals go...

“From election law toenvironmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts ofthe private sector keep dabbling in behav...

Cristin Milioti, an actress of irrepressible charisma, is for some reason a natural at playing women who are being squashed, constrained, or...

Florida Republican Matt Gaetz may be the first member of Congress under investigation for sex trafficking, and whether or not he is indicted...

Trendy Swedish food company Oatly is fooling you. That, at least, is what a Medium post from entrepreneurial self-help guru Nat Eliason, whi...

Eleven years ago, as President Obama was beginning to emphasize climate change as a potential legislative priority, utility companies began...

Back in the days when the GOP was a traditional, pro-business party led by orthodox conservatives like Paul Ryan and John Boehner, House Rep...

The economist Robert Mundell died on April 4. Although known primarily for his work on international economics—he’s popularly known in econo...

The same day thatFrancis Bacon’s landmark retrospective opened at the Grand Palais in Paris, in1971, his longtime boyfriend and muse Georg...

When Alden Global Capital announced its plan to take over Tribune Publishing—the Chicago-based media conglomerate that publishes the Chicago...

This article is adapted from this year’s acceptance speech for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, awarded by the Nation...

On Sunday, The Guardian published a comprehensive report on the environmental, health, and legal issues raised by fracking in the Eastern Ag...

The most monumental pro-labor legislation since the 1930s is a few co-sponsors shy of a majority in the Senate, and it’s tough to overstate...

The last time Stephen Hawking was ever uncertain about his fame was before a lecture in Cambridge, in the winter of 1988. Even then, really,...

The recent battle over voting rights in Georgia has briefly disrupted the usually placid relationship between America’s corporate titans and...

Rory Nolan remembers the first time he was banned from Facebook. It was October 8, 2020, the day that news broke that a militia group, in co...

It’s been a big term for state-on-state clashes at the Supreme Court. The justices could hand down an opinion any day now in California v. T...

Carolyn Bennett Glauda, a librarian in Beacon, New York, got her Covid-19 shot at an abandoned JC Penney. The store went out of business aro...

As Joe Biden’s climate-scented infrastructure proposal kicks off, the fossil fuel industry has one tried-and-true message to fall back on: T...

Through the many upheavals of the Trump era, one trend has remained strikingly stable: the mobilization of the white evangelical community a...