The New Republic

Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the selection of the first American pope—who doesn’t seem to like him all that much. In a post on...

Donald Trump won’t be so tough on China, after all.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced early Monday that U.S. tariffs on China would...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The D...

In her most recent media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went full North Korea with a number of worshipful monologues...

It goes without saying that Democratic voters have developed some grave misgivings about the party’s gerontological bent. Well before Presid...

Speaking at a Black church in Brooklyn last September, Andrew Cuomo tested the message that would quickly become the centerpiece of his camp...

The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative crea...

The White House is “actively looking” at ending habeas corpus as it continues its massive deportation crusade, according to deputy chief of...

David Souter, who died on Thursday at age 85, was perhaps the most important Supreme Court justice of the late twentieth century. His appoin...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Friday after gaining entry to Delaney Hall, which ICE opened as...

The White House doesn’t want you looking too closely at Donald Trump’s business deals in the Middle East.On Wednesday, the president said th...

Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as permanent U.S. attorney for Washington will soon start walking in a different direction.Ed Martin has ser...

Jared Kushner is back to advising Donald Trump, ahead of the president’s trip to the Middle East.Kushner is reportedly advising administrati...

Nicolle Wallace had Scott Galloway on her MSNBC show Thursday. She began by asking him what he makes of this moment in which we find ourselv...

The Trump administration is treating Afrikaners, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers in South Africa, as “refugees” and plans to br...

Donald Trump has decided to appoint one of his favorite Fox News hosts, Jeanine Pirro, as interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., and sh...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Da...

As she sometimesdoes, Mallory McMorrow sighed and paused just a beat to think before respondingto a blunt question with a pointed answer....

Vice President JD Vance has his own particularly bad explanation for Donald Trump’s already ridiculous way of dismissing the rising prices o...

President Trump’s acting FEMA chief was fired Thursday for apparently wanting the agency to continue functioning. On Wednesday, Cameron Hami...

The Trump administration reached what it’s calling a “breakthrough trade deal” Thursday with the United Kingdom. I’m very pleased for the Un...

When white smoke began pouring from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney Thursday after as few as four ballots, many assumed that meant the sitting...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it was “a good thing, not a bad thing” that he’d crippled the international economy, putting worke...

FBI Director Kash Patel seems to be interpreting the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution how he sees fit, contradicting legal precedent. At...

The Trump administration apparently deported two U.S. citizen children—ages five and four—after surreptitiously luring their mother to an im...