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Breaking News
Breaking News
South African President Apologizes for Not Gifting Trump a Private Jet
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks with President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House.
Marin Scotten
South African President Apologizes for Not Gifting Trump a Private Jet
Judge Rips Trump Admin Over Secret Deportations to South Sudan
Donald Trump is staring into the upper left corner, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, with a microphone to
Hafiz Rashid
Judge Rips Trump Admin Over Secret Deportations to South Sudan
Jim Jordan Flails as Democrat Exposes GOP Plan to Screw Up the Courts
Representative Jim Jordan speaking
Hafiz Rashid
Jim Jordan Flails as Democrat Exposes GOP Plan to Screw Up the Courts
Marco Rubio Makes Wild Claim About Trump’s Shady Business Deals
Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures while speaking in a House hearing
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Marco Rubio Makes Wild Claim About Trump’s Shady Business Deals
Trump Gets in Fight With South African President on “White Genocide”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump sit next to each other and speak in the Oval Office
Edith Olmsted
Trump Gets in Fight With South African President on “White Genocide”
Big Beautiful Bill
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Big Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
Big Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Ripple Effects
Registered nurse Brandi Gregory turns on an operating light at Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo, Texas
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Monica Potts
Registered nurse Brandi Gregory turns on an operating light at Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo, Texas
Ripple Effects
Monica Potts
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Joe Biden looks down because he is disappointed
Our Own Two Eyes
Alex Shephard
Was It Really a “Cover-Up” If We All Knew the Truth About Biden?
It’s true that Biden’s team hid his decline from the public. But the public had long known that he wasn’t fit to serve another term as president.
Risky Bet
A photograph of a protester holding up a wire hanger with the words "keep abortion safe" written on it to illustrate this story.
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
Susan Rinkunas
A photograph of a protester holding up a wire hanger with the words "keep abortion safe" written on it to illustrate this story.
Risky Bet
Susan Rinkunas
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
All Too Rare
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
Melissa Gira Grant
All Too Rare
Melissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
All Too Rare
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.
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
Melissa Gira Grant
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.
All Too Rare
Melissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
Editor’s Picks
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to members of the press as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol. House lawmakers are back at Capitol Hill this week to work on the budget bill.
Timothy Noah
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country
The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.
Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City.
Dana Vachon
How Pope Francis Saved the Catholic Church From JD Vance
By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.
TNR Features
A parody photo-illustration of Trump and his associates storming Greenland via Viking ship
Northern Fights
Christopher Hooks
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
Politics
Vice President JD Vance in Washington, DC on May 14, 2025.
Greg Sargent
JD Vance’s Surprise Admission About Trump, Medicaid Boomerangs on Him
The veep once excoriated Republicans over deep Medicaid cuts. Where he lands today will tell us much about his character—and the true goals of Trumpism.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders during a rally
Toby Buckle
Why the Democratic Tea Party Failed (and How It Could Succeed)
For the left to win, it must blame fascism on the actual fascists.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hold hands during a ceremony to celebrate the WNBA Champion Las Vegas Aces in the East Room of the White House.
What the Democrats Need to Learn From the Biden Cover-Up Fiasco
Michael Tomasky
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hold hands during a ceremony to celebrate the WNBA Champion Las Vegas Aces in the East Room of the White House.
Michael Tomasky
What the Democrats Need to Learn From the Biden Cover-Up Fiasco
The Little Super PAC That Could (Stop Andrew Cuomo)
Raina Lipsitz
Raina Lipsitz
The Little Super PAC That Could (Stop Andrew Cuomo)
Andrew Cuomo speaks before getting vaccinated at the mass vaccination site at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem.
The Little Super PAC That Could (Stop Andrew Cuomo)
Raina Lipsitz
Andrew Cuomo speaks before getting vaccinated at the mass vaccination site at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem.
Raina Lipsitz
The Little Super PAC That Could (Stop Andrew Cuomo)
Culture
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, comments on the latest developments in his dispute with the White House and Arm Secretary Robert T. Stevens.
Marin Scotten
The Red Scare Still Haunts America
The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
Zhao Tao in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”
Adam Nayman
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance
The filmmaker’s tale of modern China probes the emotional toll of living through two decades of social upheaval.
Climate
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
spiting their face
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Nearly three-quarters of investments spurred on by the IRA have flowed to states that voted for Trump. We’ll soon see how committed Republicans are to snatching from their own constituents.
Left photograph: fallen trees and damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina is cleared by heavy machinery in order to reopen a road while a person stands outside of a home watching in September 2024. Right, David Richardson, the newly appointed senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
Kate Aronoff
Left photograph: fallen trees and damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina is cleared by heavy machinery in order to reopen a road while a person stands outside of a home watching in September 2024. Right, David Richardson, the newly appointed senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.
Kate Aronoff
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked
On May 8, Sam Altman testified in a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing about artificial intelligence.
AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked
Kate Aronoff
On May 8, Sam Altman testified in a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing about artificial intelligence.
Kate Aronoff
AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked
From the Magazine
A portrait of a young R. Crumb
Still Truckin’
Jeremy Lybarger
He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential
R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.
Bob Dylan onstage on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour
MagazineWin McCormack
Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?
Collage of Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth
MagazineThe New Republic
Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
Photograph of an installation by Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP
MagazineDevika Girish
The Inspiring Hacktivist Ethos of an Indian Art Studio
The Daily Blast Podcast
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
As Trump rages at the rocker and his allies criminally charge a House Democrat, a reporter who’s tracking Trump’s weaponization of investigatory power explains why MAGA’s true intentions are so alarming.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
As Trump’s war with Walmart intensifies over its truth-telling about his tariffs, an economist explains how this exposes the fraudulence of his rationale for them—and exposes the political weakness of his position.
Podcast
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
Podcast
Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
Podcast
Donald Trump
Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Donald Trump
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
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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 J.D. Vance and Jonah Ryan
MagazineThe New Republic
Who Said It: Veep’s Jonah Ryan or JD Vance?
One is a fictional politician who everyone hates. The other is a real politician who everyone hates. Can you tell them apart?
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