The New Republic

Nine months. That’s how long it took Congress to pass a second round of legislative relief in response to a global pandemic recession. In th...

On December 12, two days before the electoral college confirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s win, Trump supporters gathered in Washington for...

On April 3, as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic raged through the country, a Federalist columnist named David Marcus wrote an arti...

This spring, Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles, had a Zoom meeting with some of the center’s 300 members....

It’s always feast or famine in Rock Springs. In the 1970s,this wind-worn mining town in southwest Wyoming was the site of an immenseenergy...

This year, some of the most trusted science institutions in the world participated in a high-profile and disastrous national mismanagement o...

Even after Donald Trump is evicted from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he will still lead a multimillion-person political movement determined to...

Jen O’Malley Dillon was always going to have to apologize. In an interview with Glamour, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign manager and the incoming...

Do congressional Republicans want to prolong the recession to hurt President-elect Joe Biden?Four years ago, I might have judged any such co...

When spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from their reactor and cooled, they are typically surrounded in inert gas and sealed into thick ste...

The climate emergencydoesn’t feel great. We fear violent weather events and mourn vanishing seasonsand species. We’ve had to name new cond...

On July 5, 1996, the world’s first cloned mammal was born in a lab at the University of Edinburgh. The lamb, carried to term by one ewe and...

Joe Biden has the opportunity to be America’s first trust-busting president in at least 50 years. He could go down in history as the smiling...

New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland—a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo nation, and among the first class of Native women elected to Congress in...

Wehave reached the stage in the unveiling of Joe Biden’s Cabinet and top WhiteHouse staff when virtually every Democrat—with the possible...

“History, unfortunately, is a forever war,” according to Clifford D. May and Bradley Bowman, who seem never to have encountered a war they d...

The protagonist of Nicole Krauss’s“Switzerland,” the first short story in her new collection, To Be a Man,is a 13-year-old girl shipped by...

It has not been a good year for anyone, but it’s been an especially bad year for the fact-checkers of highbrow magazines. In November, The A...

Speaking to outgoing Republican Senator Lamar Alexander on Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked a question that has featured prominentl...

As President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, the Justice Department will be probing more than a few sensitive political matters. Hi...

Tanisha Williams met Kevin Amos on December 29, 2002, the last day of his life.Kevin, 19, lived with his parents, but sometimes visited his...

Climate campaigners on Tuesday received a rarity amid president-elect Joe Biden’s appointment announcements: good news. Former Environmental...

Last February, I had the honor ofbeing publicly snubbed by Jay Rayner, the fiery restaurant critic for The Guardian, who dismissed my essay...

Mangrove, thefirst film in Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology series, “Small Axe,” beginswith Frank Crichlow (Shaun Parkes), the propriet...

A transcript of Episode 22 of The Politics of Everything, “How Pandemics End”Laura Marsh: This week I didsomething I never imagined doing:...