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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.

Chilling Effect

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.

Editor’s Picks

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

Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States

Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer

For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

American Worker: Photo Series

Cattle rancher taking a calf to be branded

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

Politics

Donald Trump arrives for a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol.

Michael Tomasky

Trump Talks “Trophy Wives” but Biden’s Autopen Is the New “Her Emails”

MAGAworld’s latest fixation can be explained simply: These reprobates love to lie, and it’s become way too easy for them to get away with it.

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

The man who attacked the Palm Springs facility is an acolyte of “efilism”—an anti-life belief system arising from the despair our political choices have wrought.

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?

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

Bob Dylan onstage on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour

Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?

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?