The New Republic

Other than the joys and sorrows of leaving New York City (or staying there), no recent topic has launched more exasperating essays than “can...

Last month in Chicago, after months of heated negotiations, the teachers union and Chicago Public Schools emerged with one of the most detai...

On November 6, 2000, Kansas Highway Patrolmen pulled over a rented Buick LeSabre on what seemed like a routine traffic stop. That was until...

The Republican Party is facing what many observers are describing as a William F. Buckley moment—a make-or-break opportunity to purge the ra...

How do you get rich? Writing last month in the preferred mode of his late career—the hastily written commencement address—David Brooks let h...

A clandestine airstrike here, a little diplomacy there, a wink and a nudge to America’s favorite Saudi failson dictator, and some paeans to...

It’s difficult to remember now, but one of the last major items on the table for Congress before the novel coronavirus swept the globe last...

This week marked a kind of coming out party for the Biden-era fossil fuel industry. At CERAWeek, the industry’s annual energy conference, it...

Marcus Flowers may be the most mysterious person in American politics. On January 18, which was also his last day working for the Defense De...

The director Chloé Zhao’s films have been described as poetic. That could mean that her work seems always to be seeking the sublime: in the...

In the summer of 1855, William Walker, a ruthless, ambitious, famously short Tennessean, invaded Nicaragua with a private militia, declared...

A few weeks ago at work, a man came in the door, crouched down, and shit on the floor. Colleagues who witnessed it happening were shocked bu...

As part of their ongoing effort to delay passage of the Democratic Covid-19 relief bill, Republicans are forcing Senate clerks to read the e...

Seventeen years ago, Jane Breckinridge came home. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with a great-grandmother who was Euchee, Breckinr...

Joe Biden ran for president promising to “revive” the spirit of bipartisanship, put an end to factional battles, and bring Americans togethe...

Less than a decade ago, it wouldn’t have taken much to imagine either Andrew Cuomo or Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office as president about now...

Speaking on the House floor on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy updated Martin Neimoller’s famous post-Holocaust poem. “First t...

It’s been almost two months since former Vice President Mike Pence narrowly escaped a violent mob of Trump supporters in the Capitol buildin...

By March 2020, there was no denying that the mysterious virus that had ravaged the city of Wuhan—and placed large parts of China in varying...

“No” is probably not a word the world’s second-richest man is all that accustomed to hearing. Bill Gates, one might imagine, exists in a wor...

Even the most cautious voices now seem to agree that we’ve reached a turning point in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. With three va...

Is there a more embarrassing column on the internet than the Publisher’s Note at Harper’s? This is where you can find the addled musings of...

In 2009, during Barack Obama’s tumultuous first year in the White House, the telecommunications giant Comcast bought NBC Universal, raising...

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold two voting restrictions from Arizona in a challenge brought by Democrats under the Voting Rights...

In April of last year, I sat down in front of my computer for a Zoom call with my supervisor at the small technology consulting firm where I...