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Trump’s “Liberation Day” event in the White House’s Rose Garden

Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!

His reading of American history is shockingly stupid, even for him.

Promises Unkept

Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees

Promises Unkept

Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees

Promises Unkept

Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees

Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Promises Unkept

Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees

Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.

Heather Souvaine Horn

Heather Souvaine Horn

Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.

A demonstrator holds up a fist as others stand in the background.

Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.

Heather Souvaine Horn

A demonstrator holds up a fist as others stand in the background.

Heather Souvaine Horn

Worried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.

“Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

“Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked

Editor’s Picks

Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance toured the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland

Virginia Heffernan

Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed

That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.

Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House.

Only One Thing Explains Trump’s Tariff Madness

Don’t fall for the “coherence fallacy.” The president believes (mistakenly) that he’s figured out how to get rid of the progressive income tax.

TNR Features

An illustration of a group of protesters with the Washington Monument in the background

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance

Politics

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 03, 2025 in New York City.

Trump’s Tariffs Have Already Ripped a Gaping Hole in the Economy

The president believes it’s necessary to destroy the village in order to save it. Because it worked so well in Vietnam!

A group of protesters outside the offices of Paul, Weiss, in Manhattan

Paul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal Profession

Some firms have caved to Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional demands. Others have stood and fought. We know which ones deserve our admiration.

Culture

German writer W.G. Sebald

W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy

The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

Three members of Wages for Housework Association at a literature table at Forum 1985, a women's conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

Hannah Rosefield

Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

From the Magazine

ILLUSTRATION of crime headlines

A Lawyer’s Crusade Against “Copaganda”

How police and the media manufacture surges in crime

An illustration of an elephant (the Republican mascot) getting a wedgie, symbolizing the need for Democrats to start expressing the anger of their base.

Democrats, Stop Being Timid and Start Being Mean!

An illustration of author Katie Kitamura sitting in a row of empty theater seats, indicating that she's directing the action in the novel that's taking place on stage

In Katie Kitamura’s Novels, Everything Is a Performance

A woman has dug herself a deep financial hole, and the credit repair specialist hands her a shovel

The Big, Empty Promises of the Ballooning Credit-Repair Industry

The Daily Blast Podcast

Elon Musk holds a microphone and gestures while onstage at a rally in Wisconsin.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Suddenly Set to Cut Musk Loose as Knives Come Out Over WI Fiasco

As Trump reportedly signals Elon Musk’s coming departure after their disastrous Wisconsin loss, a leading Democrat from the state explains what it all says about the unpopularity of the Trump-Musk agenda.

Donald Trump speaks in the White House

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over

As JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily defend the removal of a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error,” a shrewd immigration observer says we’re now in alarmingly lawless territory.

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?