The New Republic

Would you like to become a U.S. ambassador to a foreign country? You have two options. You can join the State Department as a career officer...

Somewhere on Earth 2, President Boe Jiden, after committing to a thorough review of the groaning, creaking, top-heavy agriculture industry,...

What does it mean to “elevate climate change as a national security priority?” President Joe Biden is already well on his way to keeping thi...

For much of the past week, one story has dominated the news: The share price of GameStop, a brick-and-mortar retail chain that sells physica...

The first rule of r/WallStreetBets is YOLO. There is no second rule.This isn’t the land of enlightenment, it’s the borough slum of loss porn...

“I think that the TNT is about to go off.” An Oregon woman named Jo Rae Perkins was livestreaming to Facebook at Seattle-Tacoma Internationa...

Duringmy sophomore year of college, my mom drove up to New York to take me to see The Color Purple on Broadway. We werenot then and are no...

As GameStop’s share price seized the internet’s attention this week, another set of news stories about the stock market went all but unnotic...

It’s been almost three weeks since Donald Trump began his exile from public life on a Florida golf course. I thought this would be a moment...

WhenWashington, D.C., announced that it would soon prioritize people who areoverweight for the Covid-19 vaccine, experts and commentators...

In December 2017, President Trump signed an executive order dramatically reducing the sizes of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante...

The March for Life began in 1974—the year following the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It bills itself as the largest social mobiliz...

A GameStop in a New Jersey mall was the first place I participated in a market. I’d beg my dad to drive me there so I could swap out old Gam...

On January 11, just a few days after the Capitol riot, Fox host Mark Levin opened his show by outlining a grand conspiracy involving the Dem...

In March of last year, Reddit user Oneawkwardpanda mentioned that the pandemic stay-home order had resulted in a “massive dip in productivit...

Not long after the attack on the Capitol, Republicans turned from spreading outrageous lies about the election to calling for “healing” and...

For a brief moment on Wednesday afternoon, CNBC anchor Scott Wapner appeared to be on the verge of an epiphany. Wapner was, in that moment,...

The ongoing fallout over a group of Redditors boosting GameStop and other heavily shorted stocks has landed—inevitably—at the door of the Tr...

The best way to think of President Biden’s mid-week flotilla of executive actions on climate is as a statement of intent: a signal of how th...

President Joe Biden is looking to make good on a promise that every president since Bill Clinton has formally offered, in some shape or form...

On January 26, 45 Republican senators voted for an amendment declaring the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump uncon...

Nearly a year into the pandemic, more than 10 million people are out of work in the United States. That number is partial, excluding the sev...

On a typical day in early January, the stock for GameStop, or GME—a beleaguered brick-and-mortar video game retailer undergoing downsizing—t...

One of my first bosses, the publisher of a digital media startup, sat just a few rows of desks away from me. She blended in fairly easily. T...

“Unity” is an elusive word in American politics. More often than not, it suggests something utopian and silly—the promise of an end to parti...