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The Art of Unruliness
The names of most of the characters in Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments are not familiar. They aren’t supposed to be. History rarely pays attention to the stories of...
View ArticleBreaking Up Amazon Won’t Solve Its Climate Problem
Elizabeth Warren’s biggest foe in her campaign for the Democratic nomination isn’t one of the nearly 20 candidates she’s competing against. It’s Amazon. The senator, who released a plan in March to...
View ArticleA Watered-Down Medicare for All Won’t Work. Just Ask Ireland.
Crowded into the clown car of presidential hopefuls, only Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, and the man himself, Bernie Sanders, remain committed to Medicare for All. In January, Kamala Harris...
View ArticleBook Publishers Have a Trump Problem
It took less than a week for publishers to get the redacted version of the “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election”—more commonly known as “the Mueller...
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How the U.S. Became a Haven for War Criminals
Isaac was 12 when he was taken. He and his 18-year-old sister Marie had been living in the Liberian bush for about a month, having left Kakata, a town just beyond the perimeter of the U.S.-owned...
View ArticleThe Lasting Disappointment of the Clinton Presidency
I was unprepared for the wave of emotion that washed over me as I entered the Bill Clinton Presidential Museum and Library in Little Rock for the first time. A TV set running brief clips from the 1992...
View ArticleFinding the Real Gentleman Jack
In July of 2018, a small ceremony was held outside of Holy Trinity Church, a small, squat, stone building in York, England, that dates back to the 12th Century. The ceremony was to unveil a blue...
View ArticleWhat Does Joe Biden Stand For, Exactly?
Every presidential candidate runs on some combination of two things: what they’ve already done, and what they plan to do next. More experienced candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders can...
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Empowerment for What?
Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher: I’ve known that rhyme for as long as I can remember. I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight when my mother explained to me that when she was my age, all children...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Attack of the Killer Zombies!!
Each Monday, members of The New Republic staff will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones, now in its eight and final season. Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they...
View ArticleJoe Biden Says Trump Is an Aberration. He’s Wrong.
In his campaign launch video, Joe Biden echoed a refrain common among establishment Democrats, retiring Republicans, and legacy media pundits since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. The story...
View ArticleBrexit Could Be Turning the Tide for Scottish Independence
Meet the other group of secession-minded nationalists in Britain: A few hundred miles north of where the details of Brexit continue to be debated, members of the Scottish National Party met in...
View ArticleThe RBG Election
With Joe Biden’s entry into the Democratic presidential race last week, there are now at least 20 candidates vying to challenge President Donald Trump next November. They run a wide gamut of...
View ArticleFor 2020 Democrats, It Should Still Be the Economy
Last week, President Donald Trump, in the midst of a Twitter meltdown that was grandiloquent even by his standards—50 tweets in 24 hours—made the case that the news media was missing the biggest story...
View ArticleOlivier Assayas’s Quest for Originality
“Typical of French cinema,” a journalist smirks, describing the work of a director he sees as a soggy, pretentious remnant of the New Wave. “Cinema about your nombril”—your navel—“only to please...
View ArticleMantras
So what if I’m not loved.How dumb to be the moon. The Earth isn’t even the center of the solar system. I am sick of their whispering. I had my own crying corner as a boy. I still have it.The Asian man...
View ArticleI Bride, I Mother, I Pierce Through the Casket
In the underbelly I’ve rot for forestI’ve rocks for waste—& when I venturepast the terracotta pots for homes squattingon their little plots their aches, past brick& schools where my living...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Cynical Strategy to Win the Jewish Vote
On Saturday, shortly after 10 a.m. on the West Coast, someone purporting to be John Earnest posted an anti-Semitic manifesto on the website 8chan, which defines itself as “the Darkest Reaches of the...
View ArticleBeto O’Rourke Won’t Demonize the Fossil Fuel Industry
Beto O’Rourke released the first significant policy proposal of his presidential campaign on Monday. “Climate change is the greatest threat we face—one which will test our country, our democracy, and...
View ArticleDemocrats Have Created an “Electability” Monster
Senator Kamala Harris was supposed to be a frontrunner. According to the rules of “the invisible primary,” in which donors and party activists coalesce around their chosen nominees, sending signals...
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