The New Republic

Tuesday, September 8 was a minor procedural date on the 2020 presidential election calendar, but also a notable symbolic one: The safe harb...

Bloomberg reported on Sunday that California water futures are now officially on the Wall Street markets, with the United States–based CME G...

Donald Trump finished off the 2020 campaign in a frenzy of hastily organized rallies. From southern Florida to northern Michigan, he and a s...

No state has weathered the brunt of the Trump administration’s climate skepticism like California. During the past four years, the president...

Will Senate Republicans ever stop trying to indemnify employers against Covid-19 lawsuits as the price for a Covid stimulus deal? On Tuesday...

The recent good news on the coronavirus front—the vaccines are on their way—hasn’t negated the bad. Deaths and hospitalizations are on the r...

The United States has a political class that mistakes its professional norms for ethics. Mainstream political journalists mindlessly grant a...

“We’re working on the line and shoulder-to-shoulder. We have no space on the line, in the break-room, and in the lockers,” Sarah Seibert, wh...

This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of publication of Black Metropolis, St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton’s landmark study of C...

Last week, New Zealand became the latest country to declare climate change an emergency. Across the planet, local, regional, and national em...

For enslaved Black Americans contemplating escape before the Civil War, the North increasingly looked like a bad option. Though Northern sta...

During his speech at an Allentown, Pennsylvania, rally a week before the 2020 election, President Donald Trump briefly became distracted by...

Some people collect stamps in their free time. Others play chess or go birdwatching. David Perdue, the senior senator from Georgia, trades s...

When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, it invited Americans to choose their path to salvation. Would it be scientific reason, predicated on pat...

When I plug my information into models predicting when I might get the Covid-19 vaccine, I have to scroll almost to the end, past 268 millio...

Salesforce is paying $28 billion to purchase Slack,  the intraoffice texting service thathas turned the American workplace into a dystopian...

The frightening power of Big Tech is one of the few issues Democrats and Republicans still agree on, even if they don’t agree on the specifi...

The quest for authenticity is perhaps the central obsession of modern food culture. Food today is a vehicle not only for sustenance or pleas...

Earlier this year, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote one of the finest opinions in the Supreme Court’s recent history. His majority ruling in McGir...

On Wednesday, for forty-six minutes, President Trump gave perhaps the most deranged speech of his political career—which means it was arguab...

On Monday, airborne sheep surveyors in San Juan County, Utah, observed a three-sided, 11-foot-tall reflective metal object nestled in the or...

A life lived indoors has long beenviewed as the height of economic attainment: Elites relax in palatial compoundswhile couriers fetch pack...

On May 30, in the midst of a world-threatening pandemic and a surge of protests for racial justice, President Donald Trump arranged a photo...