The New Republic

Few portions of political discourse are as predictably shallow as presidential cabinet discourse. Who should run the Department of Transport...

Elon Musk isn’t known for being a practical, by-the-book guy. At different points, the newly minted second-richest person on earth has start...

In August, as families across the country prepared for the new school year, Smithsonian magazine spoke to more than a dozen anonymous tribal...

While newsletters have long been on the rise in the media landscape, 2020 has become the year they finally reached “so hot right now” status...

A transcript of Episode 21 of The Politics of Everything, “American Military Supremacy Is Not Inevitable”Laura Marsh: Today, the United Stat...

The country with the most powerful military in the world likes to pretend it has no choice in the matter. If the United States didn’t mainta...

There’s afundamental tension at the heart of a lot of climate policy these days:Supporting renewable energy is good, but not enough. Merel...

The impossible yet irresistible pandemic-related question: When will things get back to normal? In a recent interview with the University of...

To date, the Biden-Harris administration has named 17 women to top posts, some of them firsts, many of them contingent on Senate confirmatio...

This week, the Biden campaign is expected to announce officially that it’s tapped former Obama adviser and current BlackRock executive Brian...

The last four years have seen no shortage of irony, but itstill spins your head to think that the incoming administration might turn outto...

Members of Congress reconvened this week, facing a December 11 deadline to come up with a temporary spending bill to avoid a shutdown and in...

Chicago, in 1871, was alive to the giddy possibilities of modernity. The city had shot up from a flat expanse of grasses and wild garlic pla...

President-elect Joe Biden promised a return to normal on the campaign trail. His early picks for Cabinet and other high-level administration...

Last Friday, Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated, likely by agents of Israel’s Mossad and with the approval or as...

At 50 years old, and with three kids, Brígida Vidal struggles to keep up with the mountains of dirty linen she is expected to sort through e...

When someone in the building died, a notice was often taped to a window in the lobby: WE REGRET TO ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF OUR FRIEND. The s...

Let’s be honest: Ben Smith is the best media columnist The New York Times has ever had. He instantly surpassed his poor predecessor upon lan...

At long last, the game of chess is ready for its close up. Scott Frank’s show The Queen’s Gambit, based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the...

When is an immigrant not a person? According to President Donald Trump, it’s whenever the executive branch says so. The president has spent...

In October 1978, in what remains one of the worst episodes in the program’s history, Frank Zappa appeared on Saturday Night Live. The rock m...

Strip away the myth-making and genocide erasure, and American Thanksgiving is a simple harvest festival, celebrated in various forms by cult...

It seems fitting that Thanksgiving would be canceled on this, the four-hundredth anniversary of the Mayflower’s voyage. It’s historic diseas...

The workplace panopticon is coming home. The societal shift to work from home and Zoom-led education has been a boon for makers of digital...

It is an underrated source of dysfunction in our politics that too many people believe our system of government makes any sense at all. Even...