The New Republic

Sometime in 1988, the actor, musician, and painter John Lurie was busy designing the cover for Voice of Chunk, an album by his band, The Lou...

In a campaign ad released a few weeks before Georgia’s January Senate runoffs, an aide tells his boss, GOP Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw...

Last month, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a press release announcing that he had certified the results of the U.S. Se...

This week, NBC News’s national political reporter, Sahil Kapur, tweeted a bit of interesting color from the Hill: Hawaii Senator Brian Schat...

There is a story about Joe Biden that has been retold many times in the press over the last several years, largely because it seems to illum...

On Wednesday, Newsmax—the demented far-right channel seemingly modeled after North Korean newscasts—was forced to air a groveling apology to...

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, has elected to close two stores in Long Beach, Ca...

“Amtrak Joe” loves trains. He has taken Amtrak round trips between Delaware and Washington D.C. some 8,200 times. He almost took one to his...

The recent furor regarding speculation in the stock of GameStop—which soared far beyond its fundamental value, due to a technique known as a...

All Americans believe in equality, but they don’t believe in it equally—an awkward circumstance that politicians have always struggled to pa...

Two months before armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the first major operation to “Stop the Steal” went down in Philadelphia. On No...

The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on whether to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Georgia, fr...

On Tuesday, as Amazon announced record earnings amid the pandemic, CEO Jeff Bezos said that he would be stepping down from his position, pa...

Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video of herself titled “Marjorie Greene Confronts David Hogg” to YouTube on January 21, 2020, shot the year...

President Joe Biden made the Defense Production Act (DPA) a key part of his campaign coronavirus platform. He began calling for the act to b...

Few figures in recent American history have found a smoother path to power than California Governor Gavin Newsom. His father, a state appeal...

One of the scariest female characters inEnglish literature is Madame DeFarge, the wine shop owner whose face is the blank,pitiless gaze of...

In late 2016, staff at the American embassy in Havana began hearing strange noises and experiencing a range of odd symptoms: headaches, dizz...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the freshman congresswoman from Georgia, is a QAnon devotee who has questions about whether or not a plane flew into...

Kink is a new collection of short fiction edited by the novelists R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, including contributions from them both. It’...

Liberals, still flush from defeating Trump and taking control of both houses of Congress, are adjusting to the grim reality that the fate of...

The scene Monday night was not high on the list of Democratic fantasies about a Joe Biden presidency: A smiling Susan Collins, flanked by Re...

At first it may seem like Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is another “poverty porn” film, a rising Hollywood genre in the mold of Slumdog Mi...

In a Friday news conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was asked about a report from the state’s attorney general that showed that nurs...

Covid-19 is a trickster. Those who have lived with it the longest often describe the disease as if it knows what mischief it’s making. Miel...