Many More Americans Would Be Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So...
Several months into the largest mass vaccination campaign in U.S. history, nearly half the country’s residents have yet to get a shot. While pollsters and journalists have strained to sort that cohort...
View ArticleWho Will Read Niall Ferguson’s Doom?
In November 2006, Niall Ferguson traveled to the Bahamas. Then a professor of history at Harvard, he had been invited to address Morgan Stanley’s swank annual gathering for investors in Lyford Cay, a...
View ArticleWhy Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot
In 2009, Senator John Ensign, a Republican from Nevada, acknowledged that he had had an affair with a staffer. The authorities took notice when it came to light that Ensign’s parents had given the...
View ArticleEven Donald Trump Knows Bitcoin Is a Scam
The structural integrity of his brain might be questionable, but if anyone can spot a scam, it’s former President Donald Trump, whose business history is riddled with complaints of unpaid bills and...
View ArticleRepublican Obstructionism Meets Pipeline Hysteria in North Carolina
The transition was supposed to be a smooth one. After President Joe Biden tapped Michael Regan, head of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, to run the Environmental Protection Agency,...
View ArticleJoe Manchin Inches Closer to Trump’s Big Lie
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s problem is twofold. First, he fetishizes bipartisanship during one of the most hyperpartisan eras of modern American politics. Second, he enthusiastically supports...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Culture-War Definition of Free Speech
At the end of April, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Brandi Levy, a high school cheerleader, who posted “Fuck school fuck cheer fuck softball fuck everything” to Snapchat in 2017...
View ArticleThe Fox News Guest Behind the Republican Frenzy Over Critical Race Theory
Last September, an obscure, 36-year-old documentarian named Christopher Rufo landed a slot on Tucker Carlson Tonight. Knowing the president would be watching, he sounded the alarm about an ideology...
View ArticleRachel Cusk Confronts the Chaos of Genius
Over 15 books, one play, and many shorter published prose pieces, Rachel Cusk has accrued a reputation for regality. Although her subject has frequently been the messier side of living while female, a...
View ArticleDemocrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors
The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On the one hand, one can read in the mainstream press that “more...
View ArticleWhy Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
Monday night, Merrick Garland’s Justice Department shocked a lot of people by filing a brief in federal court effectively shielding Donald Trump from justice in a defamation suit over credible...
View ArticleThe Party of Trump Is Trying to Get People Mad at Anthony Fauci Again
This is a strange moment for Dr. Anthony Fauci to reemerge as the right’s public enemy number one. The United States is only averaging about 15,000 new cases of Covid-19 a day, even as the country’s...
View ArticleDemocrats Control New York but Can’t Even Pass Climate Legislation
For climate advocates worried that Republicans and swing-Democrats like Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are about to torpedo green infrastructure plans in Congress, the state of New York would...
View ArticleAre Democrats Done Fighting Big Money in Politics?
With early voting beginning in New York City this weekend, the mayoral candidates have taken to the airwaves to make their closing arguments. Local TV is flush with predictable campaign ads:...
View ArticleMake Vladimir Putin Boring Again
“Politics stops at the water’s edge,” was the maxim of Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican sponsor of the 1948 Senate resolution that bore his name. The Vandenberg Resolution made possible Harry Truman...
View ArticleBrian Stelter on How the 2020 Election “Radicalized” Fox News
“The Fox of 2021 is different even than the Fox of 2019.” That was the key point that CNN anchor Brian Stelter wanted to stress in his recent interview with The New Republic. Stelter’s recent book,...
View ArticleWill Biden’s Obsession With Compromise Poison His Agenda on LGBTQ Rights?
After a somewhat obscure court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case, reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, the Biden administration is now facing serious doubts about how far it is willing to...
View ArticleThe Political Imagination of Stacey Abrams
The politician as novelist is certainly nothing new. Bored, famous, and perhaps hoping to distract from the inevitable reassessment of their legacies, a couple of ex-presidents and several legislators...
View ArticleThe Democrats Successfully Crafted a Bipartisan Bill. It’s a Failure in Every...
The Senate voted 68–32 Tuesday to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a wide-ranging package promoted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Todd Young, aimed at countering...
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The Best of TNR’s Politics Podcast
Over the next few months, editors at The New Republic are choosing their favorite episodes of The Politics of Everything. Illustration by Carlo GiambarresiSummer Pick #1Episode 24: “The Case of the...
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