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Remember the Greatest Generation? Today’s GOP Is the Worst Generation

Republican pols, I listened to you prattle on for years about fascism and freedom. You were lying the whole time.

Editor’s Picks

Donald Trump makes a smug face while standing at a presidential podium. A U.S. flag is in the backround.

Trump’s Rage Over “Low” Deportations Suddenly Gets More Unnerving

A new DOJ memo argues that immigration judges can be stripped of civil service protections. That could lay the groundwork for firing them if they don’t rule the “right” way.

Donald Trump in the White House

How Did America Not See This Apocalypse Coming?

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

TNR Features

Sherrod Brown and UAW members

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Politics

“Sesame Street” character Kareem waves to Palestinian children during a 2009 performance

I Worked on the “Arab Sesame Street.” It Was Not a Waste of Money.

Donald Trump is just playing on anti-Palestinian prejudice. “Shara’a Simsim” did a lot of good—until a GOP congresswoman cut the funding.

Elon Musk after a meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol

Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night

It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.

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

Man plowing a field in the early 1900s

Eric Herschthal

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

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the 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

Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon in "The White Lotus."

The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist The White Lotus

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Musk’s Attack on Social Security Takes Ugly Turn with New Leak Stunner

As Trump officials move to cut Social Security and startling new info emerges about Elon Musk’s involvement, an advocate for social insurance explains how Trump and Musk are headed for deep political trouble.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Press Sec Accidentally Blurts Out Real Goal of His Tariff Scam

As press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the quiet part out loud about Trump’s tariffs, a reporter who covers Trumpworld explains why his vile bullying of our allies should be taken a lot more seriously.

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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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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?