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A sign saying "You're hot. Stay cool" affixed to a street light on 86th Street in Manhattan during a heatwave in August 2024.

playing with fire

The Republican Plot to Let People Die of Heatstroke

As we approach a summer that may be among the hottest on record, Republicans are trying to cut programs that help the poor and the elderly stay cool—and stay alive.

Editor’s Picks

Handwritten notes, flowers and stones are left outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. A suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and other crimes for the killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside of the Capital Jewish Museum.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim Wanted Peace, Not More Hatred

They were victims of brutal antisemitic violence as they sought peace. But some have invoked their tragedy toward the opposite end.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

Felipe De La Hoz

The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army

Across the country, unidentifiable law enforcement agents are snatching unsuspecting people off the streets where they live. But just because it’s beyond the pale doesn’t make it illegal.

American Worker: Photo Series

Cattle rancher taking a calf to be branded

Tough Work, Tight Margins: How Cattle Branding Is Evolving in Nebraska

Politics

A close up of a scowling Donald Trump

Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam

Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell

The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation—but Not the Fed

The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.

Culture

Nathan Fielder dressed as the pilot Chesley Sullenberger in a replica of a jet's cockpit.

Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Takes Flight

In the second season of the HBO docu-comedy series, the airline cockpit is the stage for an ambitious investigation into how the roles we choose to play can entrap or liberate.

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.

From the Magazine

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L'affaire Grenoble

Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France

At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy. Sound familiar?

Illustration of Karl Marx superimposed on the American flag, symbolizing the impact he's had on the U.S. over the years

What America Made of Marx

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.

Melissa Gira Grant

Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access

A portrait of a young R. Crumb

Jeremy Lybarger

He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential

The Daily Blast Podcast

Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Humiliated Trump’s Anger at Putin Grows as GOPers Start Breaking Ranks

As Trump’s frustration mounts over Vladimir Putin’s refusal to end the war and Republicans search for a tougher approach, a writer who specializes in Russia explains why Trump is badly suited to this fraught moment.

Donald Trump raises his fist while walking outside the White House

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire

As Trump offers strange new justifications for his tariffs, a reporter who covers class politics explains how he undermined his own case for them—and why the Trump-GOP broader agenda is awful for working people.

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 Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth

The New Republic

Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?

They’re both unqualified for their jobs and love to drink. Can you tell them apart?