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Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House.

Michael Tomasky

In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism

The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

JD Vance struts

JD Vance Likes “Normal Gays.” Should We Count That as a Win?

Claire Potter, Neil J. Young

JD Vance struts

Claire Potter, Neil J. Young

JD Vance Likes “Normal Gays.” Should We Count That as a Win?

Saudi Arabia’s Dreams of a Sustainable Economy Are Now Drowning in Oil

Saudi Arabia’s Dreams of a Sustainable Economy Are Now Drowning in Oil

Marco Rubio and Mohammed bin Salman sit in armchairs.

Saudi Arabia’s Dreams of a Sustainable Economy Are Now Drowning in Oil

Marco Rubio and Mohammed bin Salman sit in armchairs.

Saudi Arabia’s Dreams of a Sustainable Economy Are Now Drowning in Oil

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office.

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office.

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

Trump’s Rage over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit

Trump’s Rage over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit

lead and measles

The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children

Liza Featherstone

lead and measles

Liza Featherstone

The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children

lead and measles

JD Vance speaks at a podium with Donald Trump beside him, flanked by other people.

The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children

Liza Featherstone

JD Vance speaks at a podium with Donald Trump beside him, flanked by other people.

lead and measles

Liza Featherstone

The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children

Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks at a news conference on the Trump Administration's planned cuts to the Social Security Administration.

The Democratic Senator Who Silenced the Centrist Naysayers

Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks at a news conference on the Trump Administration's planned cuts to the Social Security Administration.

The Democratic Senator Who Silenced the Centrist Naysayers

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham in New York City on March 05, 2024.

Laura Ingraham’s Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA’s Dark Endgame

An Arizona Democratic congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that?

Trump and Musk during their Tesla infomercial on the South Lawn of the White House

Is America Pissed Off Enough at Trump and Musk for a General Strike?

The United States hasn’t seen such a massive labor action in 78 years. But the oligarchic wreckage of this administration is fueling multiple movements toward that goal.

TNR Features

A photo of the bodies of American Nuns Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Ita Ford, along with lay missioner Jean Donovan

Heart of Darkness

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

Politics

Culture

Jamie Miller, played by Owen Cooper, faces a forensic psychologist in <i>Adolescence</i>.

Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears

If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability.

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor in season two of “Andor”

Andor Is the Best Star Wars You Will Ever See

The second and final season of Tony Gilroy’s epic is suspenseful, action-filled—and a timely, unflinching portrayal of the human costs of rebellion.

From the Magazine

Photo of Bob Dylan with the violinist Scarlet Rivera

Completely Known

The Two Best Bob Dylan Films

One is very popular, while the other is quite obscure.

Illustration of David Cronenberg standing in front of the digital tombstones featured in his new film

David Cronenberg Takes High Tech to the Graveyard

Illustration of a figure with a TV for a head wearing a MAGA cap

How the Radical Right Captured the Culture

Photo of a boat-dweller off the coast of Sausalito

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

The Last Days of the Boat-Dwellers of Sausalito

The Daily Blast Podcast

Donald Trump looks to the side and speaks

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Surprise Admission About Putin Wrecks “Great Dealmaker” Scam

As Trump reveals that he’s not expecting serious concessions from Russia in peace talks, the author of a new piece on his strategy explains why it’s likely to prove counterproductive—with tragic and disastrous results.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Suddenly in Retreat on Many Fronts as Poll Reveals Key Weakness

As President Trump abruptly starts backpedaling on numerous issues at once, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explains why Democrats should make Trump’s weakness central to their case against him.

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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?