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On October 04, federal agents deployed a smoke grenade on protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Melissa Gira Grant

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

Editor’s Picks

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

The Rotunda on the Lawn at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Video screenshot of Mayor Johnson and Perry Bacon

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Newsom and Pritzker Are Showing How to Attack an Authoritarian Crook

Culture

Author Angela Flournoy at the American Academy in Berlin

The Female Friendship Novel in the Era of the Group Chat

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness follows four friends through personal and political upheavals.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Pat Calhoun in “One Battle After Another”

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

From the Magazine

An illustration of author Elizabeth Gilbert in the clouds

School for Souls

The Spiritual Appeal of Elizabeth Gilbert

All the Way to the River taps into an enduring strain of spiritual eccentricity and wandering in American literature, from the transcendentalists to the Beats.

Wolf-catcher Guy Dall’Osto watches for a wolf in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.

When Is It Right to Kill a Wolf?

A collage of documents from the founding of the United States

Can America Become a Democracy?

An illustration that imagines some of the scenes from Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir

Videos

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Democrats Got Something Really Big Done in New Mexico

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham discusses how New Mexico will soon become the first state with universal free childcare and why the Democratic Party needs to look to states and governors for fresh ideas and strategies.

The Daily Blast Podcast

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks into microphones outside the U.S. Capitol

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked Trump’s Entire Shutdown Strategy

As Greene admits the GOP is screwing the country on health care, a leading congressional scholar explains how Greene accidentally revealed the surprising weakness of Trump’s position in the shutdown standoff.

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss

As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s attorney general tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against him—and discusses what comes next.

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.

Collage of Dr. Nick and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The New Republic

Who Said It: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or The Simpsons’ Dr. Nick?

They’re both quacks—but only one of them is in charge of the nation’s health care policy. Can you tell them apart?