The Empire State Strikes Back
New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization with multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying business records on Thursday for hiding millions in unreported income for employees, surfacing a...
View ArticleAmerica’s Obsession With Self-Help
Books about an idealized American character often make for a body of elusive, exasperating speculations, delivered either on the fly or from a special-pleading pulpit of one sort or another. So there’s...
View ArticleDon’t Blame New York City’s Election Mess on Ranked-Choice Voting
When New York City’s mayoral election plunged into chaos earlier this week, Donald Trump declared victory. “It was announced overnight in New York City that vast irregularities and mistakes were made...
View ArticleTucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald’s Shameless Marriage of Convenience
Last week, in an appearance on a Mediaite podcast, the journalist Glenn Greenwald came to the defense once again of Fox News’s chief hatemonger, Tucker Carlson. While he rightly accused Carlson of...
View ArticleThe Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem
In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration’s...
View ArticleThe Murky Past of Congressional Candidate Marcus Flowers
Back in March, The New Republic’s readers were introduced to Marcus Orlando Flowers, one of a new breed of natsec-focused Democrats, leveraging their experience in the global war on terror to present...
View ArticleEnd the War on Whistleblowers
Last month, ProPublica published a jaw-dropping look into the IRS data of well-known billionaires, revealing their meager effective tax rates in detail. The disclosures were met with shock and anger....
View ArticleHow Bad Was Bill Barr?
What made Bill Barr such a bad attorney general? The question is of more than historical interest, as pundits have begun to grapple with the state of the Justice Department he left behind. Barr’s...
View ArticleWalmart’s Play for the Insulin Market Is the Latest Crack in Our Broken...
The deal Walmart has inked with Novo Nordisk, which will allow it to sell the Danish drug manufacturer’s short-acting Novolog insulin for $75 a vial, is nothing short of revolutionary—that is, if you...
View ArticleHow Stephen Breyer Is Helping to Destroy the Norms He Claims to Cherish
Stephen Breyer did something last week that even some Supreme Court watchers may not have noticed, focused as people were on the flood of late-term court decisions. He let it be known that he’s hired...
View ArticleWhen Seas Burn and Governments Do Nothing, Community Action Is the Only Way
To summarize North American fossil fuel derangement, you only need two sentences: The Gulf of Mexico was on fire this weekend. On Monday, the company responsible got a new offshore drilling...
View ArticleSamuel Alito’s Boundless Contempt for Democracy
I spent my Fourth of July holiday this year like most others did: spending time with friends and family, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and setting off fireworks. It’s one of my favorite...
View ArticleIf You Want to Get Ahead in the GOP, You’d Better Support Trump’s Big Lie
On Sunday, J.D. Vance—the author and Ron Howard muse turned GOP gubernatorial candidate—tried to repent for committing the cardinal sin of post-2016 Republican politics: having said anything slightly...
View ArticleTrump’s Social Media Lawsuit Is Doomed to Fail (and Work Exactly as Planned)
“We’re going to hold big tech very accountable,” said former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Holding forth in 91-degree heat in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump introduced a class-action lawsuit...
View ArticleFox News Adds Climate Coverage to Its Portfolio of Destruction
For Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, decades of climate denial isn’t nearly enough. With the planet rapidly warming and extreme weather events multiplying, Murdoch and Fox are set to launch Fox Weather, a...
View ArticleThe U.S. Gas Industry Is Headed for Hard Times
One way or another, U.S. liquefied natural gas is on course for a reckoning. One batch of bad news for the industry came in May, when the International Energy Agency reported that in a scenario for...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Total War on Congress
As the first term of the Mitch McConnell–engineered 6–3 right-wing Supreme Court supermajority drew to a close last week, most liberal observers expressed qualified relief. With some exceptions—in...
View ArticleThe Silent Lessons of A Quiet Place Part II
It is by now something of a shared joke among its fans that the movie A Quiet Place, the surprise hit of 2018, a horror story in which aliens hunt humans by sound, does not really make sense. The...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Already Plotting the Next Crisis for American Democracy
More than a few things foiled Donald Trump’s plan to hold onto power after the 2020 election. One was the fact that he received nearly seven million fewer votes than his opponent. Another was that he...
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The Day That Richard Nixon Changed U.S. Economic Policy Forever
August 15, 1971, was a fateful day in the history of American economic policy: President Richard Nixon imposed far-ranging wage and price controls on the U.S. economy, abolished the fixed exchange rate...
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