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multi-crisis
Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.
Nicholas Slayton
multi-crisis
Nicholas Slayton
Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.
multi-crisis
Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.
Nicholas Slayton
multi-crisis
Nicholas Slayton
Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.
BAD OMEN
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way
Greg Sargent
BAD OMEN
Greg Sargent
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way
Already?
Ross Rosenfeld
The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.
Democrats of all stripes—including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—are pledging to find common ground with Trump and the Republicans, in the mistaken belief that voters will reward them for it.
HEAR ME OUT
A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!
Timothy Noah
HEAR ME OUT
Timothy Noah
A Better Plan Than Trump’s: Let’s Surrender to Canada!
Inconsistencies
The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term
Matt Ford
Inconsistencies
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term
Inconsistencies
The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term
Matt Ford
Inconsistencies
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Faces a Major Question About Trump’s Second Term
Breaking News
WTF
Meta’s Dangerous Rule Change Has Unleashed Some Vile New Content
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
WTF
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Meta’s Dangerous Rule Change Has Unleashed Some Vile New Content
ffs dude
John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit
Hafiz Rashid
ffs dude
Hafiz Rashid
John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit
ffs dude
John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit
Hafiz Rashid
ffs dude
Hafiz Rashid
John Fetterman Pathetically Brags About Planned Trump Mar-a-Lago Visit
Yikes!
Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Yikes!
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn
Yikes!
Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Yikes!
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Donald Trump Jr.’s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn
dark
Hafiz Rashid
Every Senate Democrat Who Backed Most Radical Anti-Immigrant Bill Yet
Here’s the name of every Democratic senator who voted to advance the Laken Riley Act. The bill still needs one final vote.
sick
Malcolm Ferguson
Elon Musk Helps German Far-Right Candidate Spread Absurd Hitler Lie
The world’s richest man teamed up with AfD leader Alice Weidel to amplify a deranged lie about Adolf Hitler.
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Editor’s Picks
Susan Rinkunas
The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person
The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.
Melissa Gira Grant
Police Unions’ Damning Silence on Trump’s Plan to Pardon Cop Beaters
The president-elect says he’ll pardon January 6 rioters, many of whom assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol that day. Why won’t the unions condemn it? There’s a simple answer.
TNR Features
Dire Days
Steven Levitsky
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Daniel Ziblatt
What if Trump Does Everything He’s Promised—and the People Don’t Care?
Politics
Thom Hartmann
Which Party Benefits From Zuckerberg’s Move? The One That Lies a Lot.
Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking is obviously designed to curry favor with Trump. But it goes well beyond that.
Robert Costa
“You Should Run for President”: Jimmy Carter’s Ad Man Speaks
Gerald Rafshoon helped take Carter from the peanut farm to the White House. Here, he exclusively recalls some of the key moments of a decades-long relationship.
Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers
Nicholas Slayton
Nicholas Slayton
Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers
Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence
Harry Litman
Harry Litman
Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence
Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence
Harry Litman
Harry Litman
Yes—It’s Still Important That Our Felon President Face a Sentence
Culture
Linda Hall
Elizabeth Strout’s Plunge Into Sentimentality
If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.
Phillip Maciak
TV’s Year of Big Disappointments
Some of this year’s TV felt distinctly deflated. But the very best shows took on the subject of disappointment itself.
Climate
Our New Hellscape
Kate Aronoff
Coming Soon to Our Musk-Trump Hellscape: AI-Trained Tesla Robotaxis
Tesla could launch the robotaxis by year’s end, and Wall Street is banking on the incoming president to clear any regulations that stand in the way.
A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public Transit
Liza Featherstone
Liza Featherstone
A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public Transit
Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges
Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Banks Celebrate the New Year by Quitting Their Climate Pledges
From the Magazine
For Art’s Sake
Scott Bradfield
Alan Hollinghurst’s Elegy for Britain
At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.
Magazine
Laura Jedeed
The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics
Magazine
Joanna Scutts
The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently
Magazine
Rebecca McCarthy
Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War
Podcasts
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story
As Trump unleashes vile attacks on Democrats over the Los Angeles horrors, a leading historian of conservatism explains how this fits into the right’s broader project of degrading public life.
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad
After Trump unleashes some wildly crazed ideas to reporters, an expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that are dangerously alarming and designed to normalize the abnormal.
Podcast
Behind the Shoplifting Panic
The Politics of Everything
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Behind the Shoplifting Panic
Podcast
Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP
Podcast
Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Podcast
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Fresh Hell for Mike Johnson as Trump Reveals How He’ll Screw Over GOP
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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.
Christian Hunt
The TNR Politics Quiz
Test your knowledge—from the first Black person appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court to the first U.S. president to be impeached.
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