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Even White Afrikaners Think Trump’s “Refugee” Plan Is Dumb
White Afrikaners stand and wave small American flags after arriving at Dulles Airport from South Africa
Edith Olmsted
Even White Afrikaners Think Trump’s “Refugee” Plan Is Dumb
Trump’s Tariffs May Save Us From Podcast Bros
Donald Trump points while walking on an airport tarmac
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Tariffs May Save Us From Podcast Bros
Trump Signs Massive Arms Deal With Psychopath Saudi Leader
Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman (wearing traditional attire). Trump holds a black folder in his other hand and he smiles weirdly.
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Signs Massive Arms Deal With Psychopath Saudi Leader
Chuck Schumer Finally Takes Action After Trump Accepts Private Jet
House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wears his glasses and speaks.
Hafiz Rashid
Chuck Schumer Finally Takes Action After Trump Accepts Private Jet
Not Even Biden’s Own Staff Knew How Badly He Was Declining
Joe Biden wears sunglasses and looks down while walking at Pope Francis's funeral
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Not Even Biden’s Own Staff Knew How Badly He Was Declining
Undeclared
Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War
Indigo Olivier
Undeclared
Indigo Olivier
Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War
Undeclared
Donald Trump speaks animatedly into a microphone
Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War
Indigo Olivier
Donald Trump speaks animatedly into a microphone
Undeclared
Indigo Olivier
Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War
RETRO
Donald Trump shurgs and makes a weird face while seated at his desk in the White House.
The Trump White House Brings Back Supply-Side Magical Thinking
Timothy Noah
Donald Trump shurgs and makes a weird face while seated at his desk in the White House.
RETRO
Timothy Noah
The Trump White House Brings Back Supply-Side Magical Thinking
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside Donald Trump during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
merchants of death
Matt Ford
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children
The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.
Separation Anxiety
Zhao Tao in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance
Adam Nayman
Zhao Tao in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”
Separation Anxiety
Adam Nayman
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance
PODCAST
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PODCAST
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood
PODCAST
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PODCAST
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood
Editor’s Picks
Greg Sargent
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters
It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.
Illustration of a baby surrounded by menacing images of pills and a baby powder container. Imagery from vintage J&J ads is also included to suggest that the issues with the company have been happening for decades.
MagazineAlexander Zaitchik
A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System
An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.
TNR Features
A person wears a yarmulke with a Make American Great Again slogan
Choose a Side
Eric Alterman
The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump
Politics
Bags of beans and rice are displayed at a Walmart store in San Leandro, California.
Casey Quinlan
Don’t Expect Much Trade-War Pushback From Corporate America
With firms facing economic uncertainty and caught in the political crossfire, customers who want transparency about the cost of goods have never had it so hard.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Michael Tomasky
Public-Sector Workers Are Heroes, and Democrats Should Say So
A new memo shows how Trump is gunning to weaken Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s time to fight, Democrats.
Jim Clyburn speaks beside members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The Democrats Have an Age-Old Problem
Jason Linkins
Jim Clyburn speaks beside members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Jason Linkins
The Democrats Have an Age-Old Problem
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Alex Shephard
Alex Shephard
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Andrew Cuomo awkwardly stares ahead as he walks through a hall
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Alex Shephard
Andrew Cuomo awkwardly stares ahead as he walks through a hall
Alex Shephard
New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake
Culture
A pregnant woman holds a cell phone displaying a screen from the Clue health app.
Joanna Scutts
My Digital Pregnancy
In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.
Illustrated cover of "The Power Elite" with a magnifying glass
Peter Dreier
Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?
The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.
Climate
On May 8, Sam Altman testified in a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing about artificial intelligence.
robovoices
Kate Aronoff
AI Execs Are Demanding Government Support—No Questions Asked
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other artificial-intelligence executives are vague about what AI can do for the government. They’re very specific about what the government can do for them.
Donald Trump is trailed by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a press conference in late January.
Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running
Kate Aronoff
Donald Trump is trailed by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at a press conference in late January.
Kate Aronoff
Trump Is Destroying the Data that Keeps the Country Running
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum​ speaks during a briefing conference ​in Mexico City on April 23, 2025.
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
Kate Aronoff
Claudia Sheinbaum​ speaks during a briefing conference ​in Mexico City on April 23, 2025.
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
From the Magazine
Seth Rogen in a scene from The Studio
RIP ART
Phillip Maciak
Seth Rogen’s The Studio Isn’t Just a Celebration of Hollywood’s Past
The new Apple TV+ show about a compromised movie executive is also, more subtly, an ode to a bygone era of prestige TV.
An illustration of Trump vacuuming the names off of a sheet of voter rolls, indicating the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters
MagazineRoss Rosenfeld
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
An illustration of a group of service workers holding up a city scene, symbolizing the work they do behind the scenes to keep society running smoothly
MagazineSam Rosenfeld
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
An illustration of Trump leading the orchestra at the Kennedy Center, but the orchestra has left
MagazineDana Liebelson
Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will
The Daily Blast Podcast
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2025.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Press Sec’s Fawning Over Him to Media Takes Scary, Cultlike Turn
As Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea in her obsequious praise for Trump, a sharp observer of Trumpism explains what all this says about the “MAGA aesthetic” and its likeness to authoritarian propaganda.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
MAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh
As MAGA personalities fume about the newly elected pope’s indictments of Trump and JD Vance, a political theorist steeped in the post-liberal right decodes why Trumpism is so inimical to Catholic teaching.
Podcast
Trump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Ice His US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Erupts as GOPers Quietly Ice His US Attorney Pick, Enraging MAGA
Podcast
Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters
Podcast
Trump
Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His Voters
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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
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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