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Michael Tomasky

You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year

How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.

Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty

Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty

President Donald Trump takes questions outside the West Wing of White House

Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty

President Donald Trump takes questions outside the West Wing of White House

Forget Fertility Rates—Here’s What a Baby Bonus Would Mean for Poverty

Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America

Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America

Matt Gaetz on the One America News Network

Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America

Matt Gaetz on the One America News Network

Here’s the Deranged MAGA Propaganda Coming to Voice of America

Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow at the 2024 Democratic National Convention

Mallory McMorrow Wants Power—and Yes, That Is a Good Thing

Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow at the 2024 Democratic National Convention

Mallory McMorrow Wants Power—and Yes, That Is a Good Thing

Editor’s Picks

A person wears a yarmulke with a Make American Great Again slogan

The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump

Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers, but pay no attention as we dismantle the traditions and institutions that Jews value.

Donald Trump speaks to the media as he walks to board Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Felipe De La Hoz

Trump’s Sneaky Plot to Steal Your Data—and Weaponize It Against You

Under the guise of immigration enforcement, the administration is building a new, expanded surveillance state.

TNR Features

A photo of the bodies of American Nuns Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Ita Ford, along with lay missioner Jean Donovan

Heart of Darkness

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

Politics

Taliban prisoners in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay

The latest dream of the “freedom city” proponents: Transform the island prison into a “migrant proving ground” that doubles as an American Dubai.

FBI Director Kash Patel arrives to testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill on May 07, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Please Stop Trying to Get Kash Patel Fired

The last thing this country needs is an FBI director who wants to show up for work and zealously enact Trump’s agenda.

Culture

A pregnant woman holds a cell phone displaying a screen from the Clue health app.

My Digital Pregnancy

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

Illustrated cover of "The Power Elite" with a magnifying glass

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.

From the Magazine

Seth Rogen in a scene from The Studio

Seth Rogen’s The Studio Isn’t Just a Celebration of Hollywood’s Past

The new Apple TV+ show about a compromised movie executive is also, more subtly, an ode to a bygone era of prestige TV.

An illustration of Trump vacuuming the names off of a sheet of voter rolls, indicating the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters

Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

An illustration of a group of service workers holding up a city scene, symbolizing the work they do behind the scenes to keep society running smoothly

Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE

An illustration of Trump leading the orchestra at the Kennedy Center, but the orchestra has left

Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

MAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh

As MAGA personalities fume about the newly elected pope’s indictments of Trump and JD Vance, a political theorist steeped in the post-liberal right decodes why Trumpism is so inimical to Catholic teaching.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Ice His US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA

As Trump’s pick for the crucial role of U.S. Attorney for D.C. runs into trouble over his insurrectionism, triggering MAGA, a former prosecutor explains why blocking him would deliver a blow to Trumpism.

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.

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The 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?