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BANANA REPUBLICAN

Trump’s Crazed Midnight Tirade Over Musk’s Unpopularity Shows Weakness

Trump hates green energy—but he loves Teslas, which he’s now pathetically pleading with his followers to buy as a show of loyalty and devotion to Elon Musk.

Bernie Sanders speaks to a capacity crowd during his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done

Aaron Regunberg

Bernie Sanders speaks to a capacity crowd during his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Aaron Regunberg

Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done

PUT UP YER DUKES

This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back

Norman J. Ornstein

PUT UP YER DUKES

Norman J. Ornstein

This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back

PUT UP YER DUKES

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back

Norman J. Ornstein

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

PUT UP YER DUKES

Norman J. Ornstein

This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

olive greenspan

olive greenspan

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

Image from a computer monitor shows M, F, and X as options for "gender" on a passport application.

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

olive greenspan

Image from a computer monitor shows M, F, and X as options for "gender" on a passport application.

olive greenspan

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

RICH AND STUPID

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?

RICH AND STUPID

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?

RICH AND STUPID

Donald Trump speaks during a the White House Crypto Summit.

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?

Donald Trump speaks during a the White House Crypto Summit.

RICH AND STUPID

Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy?

Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe

Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe

A protester hiding his face holds up a sign saying "release mahmoud Khalil"

Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe

A protester hiding his face holds up a sign saying "release mahmoud Khalil"

Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

The Right is Hell-Bent on Weaponizing Libel Law

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.

The Right is Hell-Bent on Weaponizing Libel Law

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

A man holding a Pride Flag walks back and forth in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

The Supreme Court Might Re-Legalize LGBTQ Conversion Therapy

Following a recent and troubling trend, the high court has taken up another case of fanciful claims that could do real harm to gay and trans Americans.

“Holding the Weasel,” a photo from Sally Mann’s collection “Immediate Family"

A Very Trumpian Moral Panic Has Struck the Art World

Spurred by Christian activists and far-right Republicans, police in Texas have seized five Sally Mann photographs from a major museum. What happens next could have major implications for provocative art and First Amendment protections.

Culture

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.

A family of formerly enslaved people outside their house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862-1865.

Joshua D. Rothman

The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Enslaved families were regularly separated. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited with their loved ones.

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

Bad News for Trump as Brutal New Stock Market Plunge Wakes Up Dems

As Trump runs into trouble, former Congressman Tom Malinowski explains why it’s urgent for Democrats to use the government shutdown fight to dig in against his and Elon Musk’s lawbreaking.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Musk Humiliated as Trump’s Own Advisers Brutally Expose DOGE Fiasco

As a new report shows that even Trump officials are infuriated by Elon Musk, the author of a new piece on DOGE’s impacts explains how this reveals a deep problem for Trump that isn’t going away.

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 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?