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Trump’s Defiance of the Courts Just Took a Radical Leap

His administration deported more than 100 Venezuelan nationals on shaky, potentially unconstitutional grounds—and then violated a federal judge’s order to turn the flights around.

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Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaks to the media in the Oval Office.

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic

Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.

Raphael Glucksmann, co-founder of the Place Publique party

The Man Who Saved France From Marine Le Pen

Raphael Glucksmann spoke with The New Republic about how he helped keep the far-right out of power—and his leftist vision for the country’s future.

TNR Features

An illustration of Jesus on the cross

Katherine Stewart

America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.

Culture

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

The Right Is Hell-Bent on Weaponizing Libel Law

A 1964 Supreme Court decision affords the press strong protections against costly defamation lawsuits. That’s why a dangerous new movement is trying to overturn it.

Palantir’s Alex Karp arrives at the Senate bipartisan AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. in 2023.

Alex Karp’s War for the West

In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of furthering American global supremacy.

From the Magazine

Bob Dylan performs

How Bob Dylan Has Mirrored the Death of American Optimism

After Obama won in 2008, Dylan said it was the first time that he’d seen a sign of light. That light has since gone dark.

Man plowing a field in the early 1900s

Eric Herschthal

Racism Isn’t the Only Cause of the Racial Wealth Gap

A utopian city could be achieved, if we can only get past the bottlenecks that are preventing it from happening. A pair of tweezers reaching through a bottle's opening to build that city evokes those difficulties.

Julian E. Zelizer

An “Abundance Agenda” for Government Is the Anti-DOGE

Donald Trump Is a Fake Populist

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage at Canada Takes Dark Turn—and GOPers Openly Grow Unnerved

As Trump’s threats to annex Canada grow more serious, a shrewd observer of our politics explains how Democrats can seize on them to illustrate how degenerate Trump and MAGA have truly become.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court

As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him and Tesla matters so much—and what’s coming next.

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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

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?