The New Republic

Back in 2010, a little-known section of the major Dodd-Frankfinancial reform act looked poised to upend the way fossil fuel and miningcomp...

On December 11, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer to begin distributing its vaccine for Covid-19. The triumphant moment com...

When Attorney General Bill Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2019, he sold himself as a principled servant of t...

In 2020, the widespread protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd took both the news cycle and the American conscience by force...

Last week, America’s worst opinion page took a victory lap. “So Hunter Biden’s business is news after all,” The Wall Street Journal’s editor...

On Sunday evening, The New York Times reported that Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will soon be dropping its “Indians” moniker, whic...

In a video posted to YouTube five years ago, a team of cybersecurity experts listens as one of their colleagues reels off some major recent...

Of all the ways the White House has received special treatment during this pandemic—the gatherings, the low mask use, or the experimental tr...

As the president who will be in charge of the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine for almost all Americans, Joe Biden could preside over the gre...

Almost exactly one month ago, in an interview with Politico, Ohio Representative Marcia Fudge criticized how former presidents were expected...

Wolfgang Kaleck, a 60-year-old human rights lawyer with large blue eyes and a wave of sandy brown hair, smiles a lot for someone who has spe...

In 2018, in an act of defiance that would become known as the Denver Rebellion, a group of current and former Denver Post staffers wrote and...

I think a lot about the time Prince Philip flipped his Land Rover. Not so much about the crash itself, wherein the 97-year-old British royal...

If the staggered unveiling of President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet has done little to enthuse the (broadly defined) left, it has also not yet...

Dave was walking to work in one of Pittsburgh’s hippest neighborhoods, past the shuttered artisan candle shops and clothing boutiques that s...

It isn’t spoken of much, but a significant chunk of the Kansas economy depends on pervasive violations of its anti-bestiality laws. In 2010,...

It’s bad. This week marked a record in Covid-19-related deaths, and we are currently seeing an average of 209,864 Covid cases per day. Nearl...

In the lead-up to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in October, Democrats fretted that the party’s ranking member on t...

Secretary of the interior isn’t the most high-profile Cabinet post, but it might be the most glaring example of how President-elect Joe Bide...

Imagine if the U.S. had quickly employed proven public health advice, updated regularly as new science came in, throughout the entire pandem...

Last Wednesday, Timnit Gebru, a staff research scientist and co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said that she ha...

Asked during an Election Day earnings call about the prospect of a Donald Trump–branded television network, Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch was...

Anyone who wants to know that Pornhub has engaged in abusive and exploitative behavior toward women need only listen to the women whose vide...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilegethan Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied onmonarchs...

The world’s second-richest man—and second-most irritating Twitter user, after the president—has moved to Texas. After months of complaining...