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Stop Letting Republicans Lie on TV About Climate Science
Despite the Trump administration’s decision to release it on Black Friday, a new federal government report about climate change made headlines anyway. The 1,600-page Fourth National Climate Assessment,...
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Battle Lines
In October 2017, President Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, declared that “a lack of an ability to compromise” brought on the Civil War. This remark outraged a number of historians, who told The...
View ArticleHow One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma
Carpenter v. Murphy isn’t one of the more high-profile Supreme Court cases in recent years, but it may lead to one of the most consequential decisions this term. The dispute, for which the court heard...
View ArticleThe Biggest Question Mark for the New Congress
The 116th Congress won’t begin for another month or so, but we already know the session’s most important vote. It won’t be about health care or the environment or the technology industry, although it...
View ArticleThe New Republic December Issue: The Racist Brain
New York, NY—(November 27, 2018)—The New Republic today published its December 2018 issue, which features an incisive cover story by Erika Hayasaki that explores what neuroscience can explain about the...
View ArticleThe State of Indiana May Be About to Lose a Land Rover
Forecasting the Supreme Court’s final decision based on oral arguments is risky at best. The justices’ questions during the hour-long sessions don’t always reflect their actual views. Not all of...
View ArticleFighting for Liberalism—and a University
Viktor Orban is on a roll. Since his landslide re-election in April, Hungary’s prime minister has been promoting himself as a European mouthpiece of the nationalist populism sweeping the continent. Now...
View ArticleWhat Is Chuck Schumer Thinking?
When the 116th Congress begins in just over a month, President Donald Trump’s dream of a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border will be all but dead. Massive gains in the midterm elections will give Democrats...
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Unchecked Power
The last forty years have seen a transformation in American business. Three major airlines dominate the skies. About ten pharmaceutical companies make up the lion’s share of the industry. Three major...
View ArticleMilkman Is a Tale of The Troubles, Told Deep From Within
The only word for this opening sentence is banging. “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.” It bangs...
View ArticleDon’t Hate Mississippi
It’s never a shock to see white Mississippians cover themselves in shame. They’ve been doing it reliably throughout the entire history of a place that became known as the “lynching state” long before...
View ArticleRobert Mueller Has an Impeccable Sense of Timing
Michael Cohen’s latest guilty plea is both surprising and unsurprising. The president’s former personal attorney admitted on Thursday to having lied to Congress about the extent of President Donald...
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Strange Ambitions
For an artist who specialized in the uncanny, Edward Gorey has become a little too familiar. Perhaps this is the inevitable fate of writers and artists distinctive enough to have an adjective named...
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Why Widows Is the Best Crime Movie of the Year
The charming sight of a gang of hustlers, scheming to commit robbery and then committing that robbery, is not a new one. The heist movie became a classical genre in the 1960s with cheerfully swinging...
View ArticleThe Passing of the Republican Party
On Friday night, the family of former president George Herbert Walker Bush announced his death at age 94.Statement by the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the passing of his...
View ArticleThe Whitaker Solution
Chief Justice John Roberts took an extraordinary step last week by publicly reaffirming that the federal judiciary is nonpartisan and independent. Now, an unusual filing by one of the nation’s most...
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Who to Believe
One evening in January 2015, a mental health counselor named Foad Afshar met with a twelve-year-old boy inside his office in Concord, New Hampshire. Afshar was 55, a gregarious man with eyeglasses,...
View ArticleThe Whitewashing of George H. W. Bush
In the last few days, journalistic eulogies have abounded for George H. W. Bush, who died at the age of 94 on Friday night. It’s established tradition for honoring former presidents. But as Jon Allsop...
View ArticleNever Look Away Grapples With Germany’s Past
Vergangenheitsbewältigung is one of those quintessential German words: a long, clunky amalgam of syllables and ideas that expresses a concept you never imagined you’d need to name. It refers to the...
View ArticleAt The Hotel Metropole
Maids curtsied in starched peaked caps so white they hurt your eyes and you knew the war was coming from nowhere, swift and bloody. Was I a child checking in with my mother, or a boy with a lover? Who...
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