The New Republic

“You make that gown look good,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told Dr. Elizabeth Dufort in front of reporters back in May of last year, as...

On Monday evening, Chris Cuomo began his CNN nightly show, Prime Time, with an unsurprising announcement. He would not be covering the day’s...

Marches and mobs in Washington, D.C., have been much on the minds of Americans of late. So, too, for James Weldon Johnson in 1930, when the...

In 2013, Jose Luis Vaello-Madero moved back to Puerto Rico. He had lived and worked in New York since 1985. His wife had already moved back...

The morning after the 2016 election, in a tidy, scenic park along the Hudson River, I met up with Sarah Marchando, a plaintiff in a class ac...

When Merrick Garland testified last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be confirmed as attorney general, he offered, among other...

Last September, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who relishes undermining subordinate local politicians and interjecting himself into the man...

Ten years ago, Donald Trump gave a speech at CPAC that electrified his fans and teased a future run for the presidency. On Sunday, he did it...

My morning newspapers were so transfixed by Sunday night’s vindictive speech by the president who lost reelection in November that they negl...

Eight months ago, Andrew Cuomo unveiled a poster celebrating New York state’s triumph over Covid-19. Embossed on a mountain, symbolizing the...

In a video filmed for his millions of Twitter followers, the celebrity preacher T.D. Jakes, posing in a double-breasted suit with a conspicu...

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina noticed a strange liquid bubbling...

When the pandemic hit last year, 53-year-old Richard Ault was treading water. A longtime technologist in Silicon Valley, Ault had taken a br...

Horror movies have sidled into a dominant place in entertainment; you can hardly have missed how many of them are available on Netflix, or w...

According to the Center for Economic Policy and Research, the national minimum wage in this country rose in tandem with both inflation and p...

The Paris Agreement is a paradox. On the one hand, it provides an essential, shared framework for the nations of the world to tackle the cli...

I am scanning in vain the “Locke’s notebook” blog of Conservatives for Property Rights for any discussion of Friday morning’s unpleasantness...

“Biden deprioritizes the Middle East,” a Politico headline declared. The president, wrote Natasha Bertrand and Lara Seligman, “is tired of...

Dr. Oni Blackstock finished seeing patients one day in late December, and then she became the patient for a few minutes: She rolled up her s...

The Wikipedia article for the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t exist until January 2020. By June, it was one of the site’s most visited entries of a...

The long-standing idea of paying reparations to Black Americans for the costs of slavery, segregation, and other racist policies has lately...

For the last two and a half centuries, the only certainties in American life were death, taxes, and the census. Every 10 years, the Census B...

The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy...