The New Republic

On Tuesday, an otherwise fairly boring confirmation hearing heralded a remarkable victory for climate policy. In response to several questio...

“When was the last time we really had terms with which or the occasion for questioning the quality of people’s work?” Kathi Weeks, professor...

Joe Biden’s inaugural speech was primarily about unity, an appropriate theme after the pathologically divisive presidency of you-know-who. B...

“You don’t have to like it,” my late father would tell my siblings and me when we complained about our jobs. “That’s why it’s called work.”...

Joe Biden’s inaugural address was studded with words and sentences that were hard to imagine any other president expressing at any other tim...

Donald Trump’s presidency died on Wednesday as it lived: in a last-minute torrent of corruption. His final batch of pardons doled out mercy...

They called it the “Great Awakening.”Inauguration Day was supposed to be a climactic moment for believers of QAnon, the conspiracy theory t...

In the early 2000s, Peruvians faced a difficult choice.Their outgoing president, Alberto Fujimori had been democratically elected as apopu...

The Trump era begins and ends with stories of capitol buildings and Confederate flags. On July 10, 2015, the emblem was taken down once and...

On Monday, two days before Donald Trump was set to exit the presidency, the White House released the names of 244 individuals who would be h...

In January 1973, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., a 30-year-old county councilman who won an upset election by just over 3,000 votes, was sworn i...

Some good news can’t wait. On Sunday, the CBC reported that canceling federally issued permits for the Keystone XL pipeline will be part of...

I wanted to be president when I was younger, but grew out of it before middle school. Some people never do. If all goes according to plan, w...

Four years after Donald Trump’s sparsely attended inauguration, Joe Biden is likely to be sworn in before a crowd of, well, almost no one....

At the beginning of this year, news circulated that Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox had all signed on to produce a “documentary...

As the authorities worked to clear the Capitol of rioters last week, the Associated Press called Georgia’s remaining Senate runoff race for...

At 5 a.m., I’m awoken by the bell and roll over to turn on my light so the corrections officer can see that I’m alive. After the C.O. finish...

Ben Shapiro almost certainly got what he wanted out of a stint guest-hosting Politico’s flagship Playbook newsletter last Thursday. His turn...

“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there....

On achilly December morning, Gabriel Jamison stood in front of a construction sitein Brownsville, Brooklyn, with a sign and a megaphone. “...

In mid-December, a loose coalition of leftist YouTube pundits hit the gas on an ill-fated gambit to boost Medicare for All under the digital...

In 1811, between 200 and 500 enslaved Black people armed themselves in a revolt that began on a sugar plantation a few miles outside of New...

In 2014, the late Senator John McCain quietly slid a dagger into the backside of the Arizona tribal nations he was ostensibly elected to rep...

The Republican Party is in rough shape. Under President Donald Trump, the GOP has now lost the House, the Senate, and the presidency in just...

The first sign that something may have been a bit amiss about last week’s MAGA insurrection at the Capitol arrived in a viral video on Twitt...