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Rep. Rashida Tlaib joins fellow Democrats in holding up signs to protest against President Donald Trump as he addresses a joint session of Congress.

No Laughing Matter

Michael Tomasky

Democrats Are Failing to Deliver a Key Ingredient of Effective Protest

The party’s attempts at public spectacle are weak and joyless—and they’re earning the wrong kind of attention.

Editor’s Picks

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo stares directly at the camera while on set

Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking About Trump’s Economy: “Weakening!”

Yes, they’re still blaming Joe Biden, but the talking heads at Fox are getting awfully nervous that President Trump might be on the verge of sending the economy into a tailspin.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy listen as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress.

Amy Coney Barrett Isn’t What the Conservative Legal Movement Expected

The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA.

TNR Features

Sherrod Brown and UAW members

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Politics

Trump looking quite dumb

Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.

His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.

Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and House Speaker Mike Johnson

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.

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.

Games & Quizzes

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The New Republic

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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.

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?