The New Republic

Earlier this year, Kelly Loeffler—by many accounts the richest person in Congress—decided she wanted just a little more. Publicly, Loeffler,...

“That’s what’s at stake right now: our democracy,” Barack Obama said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. Some ver...

Three years since Charlottesville, armed clashes at street protests over racial justice are still a defining feature of American politics, b...

Millions of Americans who were reared on Law & Order and other courtroom dramas have a familiar, if slightly misleading, understanding of ho...

A week and a half ago, a spell seemed to break: Donald Trump began profusely lying on live television and several networks cut the feed. It...

President Trump’s decision-making is defined by, if anything, incoherence. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that, in addition to golfing and u...

What are we supposed to do with Barack Obama? He’s said at least twice over the course of the publicity tour for his new presidential memoir...

I may not have written my King Lear during the pandemic, but I certainly have told a lot of stories. This is because I spend my days minding...

We have so many numbers to describe how awful things are. Since February, the United States has conducted 170,315,721 Covid-19 tests, identi...

The euphoria from Joe Biden’s long-count victory is like the last leaf clinging to a late-autumn tree. Before that stubborn final leaf withe...

Climate activists got bad news on Monday, when word trickled out that Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond—among the top Democratic recipie...

A transcript of Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, “Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet.” Alex Pareene: I’mAlex Pareene. I’m a sta...

Who should President-elect Biden ask to join his Cabinet? Everyone has an opinion, and most of the opinions are terrible. On Episode 20 of T...

During his run for office, President-elect Joe Biden let out that he was aspiring to have an “FDR-size presidency.” But now that the dust ha...

Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill still aren’t quite willing to admit what was already obvious: President-elect Joe Biden won the 20...

The rendered fat of dead animals may seem like an unlikely aphrodisiac, but the scent adheres to a certain erotic memory for Dorothy Daniels...

On Sunday, as Covid-19 cases in Michigan surged, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new set of temporary restrictions on certain indoor g...

As his feud with Fox News has intensified—and as his pathetic attempt to overturn a legitimate election becomes more harebrained—Donald Trum...

In 2012, Factual, a Los Angeles–based technology company, had world-conquering ambitions. Intoxicated by the utopian rhetoric surrounding th...

Billionaire Charles Koch—who, alongside his late brother, is best known for funding a host of conservative and libertarian think tanks, dona...

South Dakota currently ranks second in the nation for Covid-19 cases, and first in hospitalizations. On Saturday, the state reported its hig...

Among the major issues that the Supreme Court could weigh in on over the next few months is the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearl...

The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Okuma, Japan, on March 11, 2011, was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Some of the impacts ca...

Donald Trump’s presidency could only ever have ended one way, but there was still a certain flubby majesty to how it happened. As the outcom...

Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, which was followed on...