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Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE

While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.

Editor’s Picks

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Think Trump’s Unpopular Now? Just Wait.

100 days into his second term, the president’s approval numbers are historically bad. There’s good reason to believe they’re only going to get worse from here.

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Michael Tomasky

In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism

The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

TNR Features

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Heart of Darkness

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

Culture

On October 25, 2024, at the Gila River Crossing school in Laveen Village, Arizona, members of the Indigenous community reacted as Joe Biden apologized for the United States's practice of placing Native children in residential schools.

A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System

Mary Annette Pember’s mother attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.

Jamie Miller, played by Owen Cooper, faces a forensic psychologist in <i>Adolescence</i>.

Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears

If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability.

From the Magazine

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Exit Stage Right

Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power. Here’s how their plan is going so far.

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The Two Best Bob Dylan Films

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David Cronenberg Takes High Tech to the Graveyard

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How the Radical Right Captured the Culture

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Arrests Hit by Major Legal Setback as Stephen Miller Seethes

As a Trump-appointed judge rules against his lawless renditions, a leading legal commentator explains why the ruling is such a big blow to Trump—and why Stephen Miller’s authoritarian designs may be overreaching.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Rages Wildly Over Humiliating GDP Data as Aides Soothe His Fury

As Trump seethes over the embarrassing news that the economy contracted, the author of a piece about his worsening popularity explains why his aides’ penchant for abject sycophancy is working against him.

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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.

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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?