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Late Monday, Politico reported that Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of a handful of Republicans in the chamber who can be counted on in close co...

When Ari Aster’s breakup fantasia Midsommar was first released in 2019, many women I knew cited one of its earliest scenes as a particularly...

In the early days of the presidential campaign in 2019, long before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests and the insurrection at the C...

“A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it last week when Utah’s...

In the new docuseries Dancing with the Devil: The Art of Starting Over, which airs on Demi Lovato’s YouTube channel today and precedes the r...

In a sleepy virtual hearing on Monday, New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone—chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee—introduced form...

When Ana Sharp Williamson came home from her honeymoon in the summer of 2019, she moved in with her husband and began the process of decidin...

The exit of an editor in chief at Teen Vogue isn’t the kind of thing that usually gets international media pickup, but the brief tenure of A...

One of the more surprising resignation letters in recent history was published on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Posted on...

After Election Day last year, it was Donald Trump’s doomed, illiberal crusade to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden that preoccupied t...

“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us … history is literally present in all that we do.”—James Baldwin,...

Thereis, among the works of Philip Roth, a book his friends urged him not to publish. Thedocument, titled “Notes for My Biographer,” is a...

“In less than 100 years,” Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, told The New Republic in 1973, “this oil business will be finished.” Toda...

Thisweek, HBO Max began streaming Zack Snyder’s JusticeLeague, a remake of the 2017 movie JusticeLeague. With an unfathomable running tim...

Glacially and fitfully, the filibuster debateis continuing to move in the right direction. In an interview that airedTuesday night, Presid...

One of the more puzzling developments in states’ rights conservatism has been the combination of don’t-tread-on-me militancy with a determin...

Eight decades after the writer H.P. Lovecraft died of intestinal cancer, having published in his lifetime only one book, riddled with printi...

After declaring a state of emergency around this time last year, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced his intent to halt all surgical...

Substack, the flourishing four-year-old newsletter company, has always touted itself as a savior. It was a way to make real money from writi...

The AstraZeneca vaccine rollout was already chaotic. But overly jumpy governmental decisions may have made it even worse. Countries like Den...

State courts! Of all the institutions of American government, they might receive the least attention relative to their impact on day-to-day...

It is probably good news that Donald Trump, speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, encouraged viewers to get a Covid-19 vaccine. “I would recommen...

Pundits have gotten kind of goofy about Joe Biden recently. After the president signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act on March 1...

“The purpose of the Democratic Party,” the political consultant Robert Shrum once advised, “is to take care of ordinary Americans.” Fair eno...

On January 13, one week before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States and seven long days after the...