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Breaking News
Breaking News
Trump’s Crypto Dinner Guests Admit They’re Trying to Buy Him Off
Donald Trump walks outside the White House and raises a fist in the air as if in victory.
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s Crypto Dinner Guests Admit They’re Trying to Buy Him Off
Here’s What Happened at Trump’s Shady Cryptocurrency Dinner
Donald Trump gestures while speaking at a podium
Edith Olmsted
Here’s What Happened at Trump’s Shady Cryptocurrency Dinner
Nancy Mace Hit With Shock Accusation After Waving Nudes in Congress
Representative Nancy Mace walks in the Capitol
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Nancy Mace Hit With Shock Accusation After Waving Nudes in Congress
Trump’s New Attack on Harvard Fails Immediately as Judge Blocks It
The Harvard University seal on a building on the school campus
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Attack on Harvard Fails Immediately as Judge Blocks It
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Breaking Rules to Install Grok in Government
Elon Musk looks to the side while standing in the Oval Office
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Breaking Rules to Install Grok in Government
Former President Joe Biden takes his hand to his heart during the National Anthem.
Real Talk
Jason Linkins
Joe Biden Is the Least of Democrats’ Problems
Some commentators say the former president’s age and acuity will be a litmus test for 2028 candidates. They are embarrassingly wrong.
Lone Stars
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who Republicans are targeting, stands with commissioner Rodney Ellis at the Harris Center in Houston.
The Texas Judge Race That Republicans Are Suddenly Eyeing
Sam Russek
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who Republicans are targeting, stands with commissioner Rodney Ellis at the Harris Center in Houston.
Lone Stars
Sam Russek
The Texas Judge Race That Republicans Are Suddenly Eyeing
Embryonic
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
Indigo Olivier
Embryonic
Indigo Olivier
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
Embryonic
A view of the destruction from a bomb blast last Saturday at the American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, California.
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
Indigo Olivier
A view of the destruction from a bomb blast last Saturday at the American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, California.
Embryonic
Indigo Olivier
The Dark, Nihilistic Philosophy Behind the IVF Clinic Bombing
UTTERLY SHAMELESS
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
Greg Sargent
UTTERLY SHAMELESS
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
UTTERLY SHAMELESS
President Donald Trump with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington,DC on May 21, 2025.
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
Greg Sargent
President Donald Trump with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington,DC on May 21, 2025.
UTTERLY SHAMELESS
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
Par for the Course
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Michael Tomasky
Par for the Course
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Par for the Course
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Michael Tomasky
Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol
Par for the Course
Michael Tomasky
Trump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
NOT AGAIN …
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Faiz Shakir
NOT AGAIN …
Faiz Shakir
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
NOT AGAIN …
Delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Faiz Shakir
Delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
NOT AGAIN …
Faiz Shakir
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Filibusted
Senate Majority Leader John Thune conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Grace Segers
Senate Majority Leader John Thune conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Filibusted
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Editor’s Picks
President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. Capitol.
Timothy Noah
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail
Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City.
Dana Vachon
How Pope Francis Saved the Catholic Church From JD Vance
By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.
TNR Features
A parody photo-illustration of Trump and his associates storming Greenland via Viking ship
Northern Fights
Christopher Hooks
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
Politics
UCLA graduates celebrate at their commencement in 2024.
Monica Potts
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree.
President Joe Biden is shown behind a closing door.
Osita Nwanevu
The Democrats Are Having a False Reckoning Over Joe Biden
Party elites are considerably more responsible for their woeful state of affairs than the former president.
People hold an upside down American flag outside the Supreme Court.
The Obscure Legal Doctrine Guiding the Supreme Court Into Oblivion
Matthew Wollin
People hold an upside down American flag outside the Supreme Court.
Matthew Wollin
The Obscure Legal Doctrine Guiding the Supreme Court Into Oblivion
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Grace Segers
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
Culture
Rachel Connolly
Jamieson Webster’s Elegant Meditation on How We Breathe
A psychoanalyst trains her attention on the act of breathing, and it no longer seems quite so simple.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, comments on the latest developments in his dispute with the White House and Arm Secretary Robert T. Stevens.
Marin Scotten
The Red Scare Still Haunts America
The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
Climate
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Maine
Big Flop
Liza Featherstone
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Many in the fishing industry were eager to put Trump back in the White House. But the president and Elon Musk’s DOGE have unleashed havoc and confusion.
An aerial view of traffic moving on Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California, in mid-May.
Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More
Kate Aronoff
An aerial view of traffic moving on Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California, in mid-May.
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Kate Aronoff
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
From the Magazine
In mid-February, Selina Sandoval, the associate medical director at Planned Parenthood in Kansas City, Missouri, prepared to provide the first procedural abortion for a patient in the city in around 15 years.
All Too Rare
Melissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?
A portrait of a young R. Crumb
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential
Bob Dylan onstage on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour
MagazineWin McCormack
Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?
Collage of Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth
MagazineThe New Republic
Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
The Daily Blast Podcast
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
As Trump’s assault on Harvard grows more unhinged, a leading free speech advocate explains how all this is already backfiring on Trump by stiffening institutional resistance to him—and what must happen now.
Donald Trump is staring into the upper left corner, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, with a microphone positioned to the left of his mouth.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Unravels in Crazed Rants to Media as Poll Reveals Fresh Weakness
As Trump’s latest presser goes awry in multiple ways, a careful observer of public opinion on Trump argues that the anti-MAGA majority is finally reconstituting itself—and explains how Trump himself made it happen.
Podcast
“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
Podcast
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
Podcast
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
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Purple and white crossword illustration with the initials TNR as an entry.
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 J.D. Vance and Jonah Ryan
MagazineThe 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?
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