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Breaking News
Breaking News
It’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing Trump
Iowa Rep Ashley Hinson wears a flower dress and walks through the hall of the Capitol
Fraud Alert
Malcolm Ferguson
It’s Happening Again: Town Hall Crowd Boos GOP Rep for Backing Trump
Kash Patel Fumbles Key Question About Doing His Job
FBI Director Kash Patel sits in a congressional hearing
Edith Olmsted
Kash Patel Fumbles Key Question About Doing His Job
Trump Just Invented an Outcome in His Lawsuit Against Pulitzer Board
Donald Trump speaks at a podium in the Oval Office
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Just Invented an Outcome in His Lawsuit Against Pulitzer Board
Judge Rips Government for Acting Illegally in Harvard Scientist Case
An ICE agent holds a piece of rolled up paper in his hands. His face is not pictured.
Hafiz Rashid
Judge Rips Government for Acting Illegally in Harvard Scientist Case
Trump Considering Pardons for Men Who Tried to Kill Gretchen Whitmer
Donald Trump stands behind Gretchen Whitmer as she gestures and speaks onstage at one of his events
Edith Olmsted
Trump Considering Pardons for Men Who Tried to Kill Gretchen Whitmer
playing with fire
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
Kate Aronoff
playing with fire
Kate Aronoff
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
playing with fire
A sign saying "You're hot. Stay cool" affixed to a street light on 86th Street in Manhattan during a heatwave in August 2024.
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
Kate Aronoff
A sign saying "You're hot. Stay cool" affixed to a street light on 86th Street in Manhattan during a heatwave in August 2024.
playing with fire
Kate Aronoff
The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke
Losing FACE
President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2025, including clemency for anti-abortion activists.
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
Grace Segers
President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2025, including clemency for anti-abortion activists.
Losing FACE
Grace Segers
Trump’s DOJ Has Put Reproductive Health Clinics Under Threat
Donald Trump during a swearing-in ceremony for Jeanine Pirro.
Triple Threat
Katherine Stewart
The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting Started
The administration’s anti-science posture has three different sources. Each is as extremist as the last.
in memoriam
Susan Brownmiller speaking at a press conference in 1976
Susan Brownmiller Asked Us to Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew
Claire Potter
Susan Brownmiller speaking at a press conference in 1976
in memoriam
Claire Potter
Susan Brownmiller Asked Us to Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew
Bait and Switch
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
James Robins
Bait and Switch
James Robins
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
Bait and Switch
Two Palestinians in Gaza hold a box of food containing some flour and cooking supplies.
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
James Robins
Two Palestinians in Gaza hold a box of food containing some flour and cooking supplies.
Bait and Switch
James Robins
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
Editor’s Picks
A view of the destruction from a bomb blast last Saturday at the American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, California.
Indigo Olivier
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
The man who attacked the Palm Springs facility is an acolyte of “efilism”—an anti-life belief system arising from the despair our political choices have wrought.
Former President Joe Biden takes his hand to his heart during the National Anthem.
Jason Linkins
Joe Biden Is the Least of Democrats’ Problems
Some commentators say the former president’s age and acuity will be a litmus test for 2028 candidates. They are embarrassingly wrong.
American Worker: Photo Series
Cattle rancher taking a calf to be branded
Photo Essay
Alyssa Schukar
Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska
Politics
Scott Pelley attends the CBS Fall Schedule Celebration at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Parker Molloy
Scott Pelley Warns Graduates About the Threats to American Democracy
The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to handle.
Handwritten notes, flowers and stones are left outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. A suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and other crimes for the killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside of the Capital Jewish Museum.
Eric Alterman
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim Wanted Peace, Not More Hatred
They were victims of brutal antisemitic violence as they sought peace. But some have invoked their tragedy toward the opposite end.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army
Felipe De La Hoz
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.
Felipe De La Hoz
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
A close up of a scowling Donald Trump
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Greg Sargent
A close up of a scowling Donald Trump
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Culture
Nathan Fielder dressed as the pilot Chesley Sullenberger in a replica of a jet's cockpit.
Phillip Maciak
Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Takes Flight
In the second season of the HBO docu-comedy series, the airline cockpit is the stage for an ambitious investigation into how the roles we choose to play can entrap or liberate.
Rachel Connolly
Jamieson Webster’s Elegant Meditation on How We Breathe
A psychoanalyst trains her attention on the act of breathing, and it no longer seems quite so simple.
Climate
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Maine
Big Flop
Liza Featherstone
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Many in the fishing industry were eager to put Trump back in the White House. But the president and Elon Musk’s DOGE have unleashed havoc and confusion.
An aerial view of traffic moving on Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California, in mid-May.
Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More
Kate Aronoff
An aerial view of traffic moving on Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California, in mid-May.
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Kate Aronoff
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
From the Magazine
Collage of images showing people referenced in the piece, such as Klaus Kinzler, Samuel Paty, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Caroline Fourest and Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
L'affaire Grenoble
Adrian Daub
Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France
At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy. Sound familiar?
Illustration of Karl Marx superimposed on the American flag, symbolizing the impact he's had on the U.S. over the years
MagazineMichael Kazin
What America Made of Marx
In mid-February, Selina Sandoval, the associate medical director at Planned Parenthood in Kansas City, Missouri, prepared to provide the first procedural abortion for a patient in the city in around 15 years.
MagazineMelissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
A portrait of a young R. Crumb
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential
The Daily Blast Podcast
Donald Trump yells outside while wearing a white MAGA cap.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rants About Harvard Get Darker as He Loses a Big One in Court
As Trump’s attacks on Harvard grow more unhinged amid a serious legal setback, a shrewd observer of MAGA explains why Trump actively wants you to think we’re sliding into lawlessness and terror.
Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Humiliated Trump’s Anger at Putin Grows as GOPers Start Breaking Ranks
As Trump’s frustration mounts over Vladimir Putin’s refusal to end the war and Republicans search for a tougher approach, a writer who specializes in Russia explains why Trump is badly suited to this fraught moment.
Podcast
Donald Trump raises his fist while walking outside the White House
Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Donald Trump raises his fist while walking outside the White House
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire
Podcast
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
Podcast
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
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Games & Quizzes
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The New Republic
Play Our Daily Crossword Puzzle
Published daily, the TNR Crossword is designed to be quick and addictive—a perfect pastime during all the 30-minute meetings that should have been 30-second group emails.
Collage of Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth
MagazineThe New Republic
Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
They’re both unqualified for their jobs and love to drink. Can you tell them apart?
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