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Breaking News
Breaking News
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Blocked South Sudan Deportations
Karoline Leavitt gestures while speaking at the podium during a White House press briefing
Edith Olmsted
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Blocked South Sudan Deportations
Cognitive Decline? Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Drug Prices
Donald Trump gestures and speaks while sitting next to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Cognitive Decline? Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Drug Prices
Trump’s FTC Goes to War Against Media Group Elon Musk Despises
Donald Trump and Elon Musk laugh while standing in front of a U.S. flag.
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s FTC Goes to War Against Media Group Elon Musk Despises
Karoline Leavitt Snaps When Asked About Trump’s White Genocide Rant
Karoline Leavitt gestures while speaking at the podium during a White House press briefing
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Karoline Leavitt Snaps When Asked About Trump’s White Genocide Rant
Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s International Student Crackdown
People walk on Harvard University’s campus
Edith Olmsted
Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s International Student Crackdown
President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the U.S. Capitol.
BZZZZT!
Timothy Noah
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail
Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
Incriminations
President Joe Biden is shown behind a closing door.
The Democrats Are Having a False Reckoning Over Joe Biden
Osita Nwanevu
President Joe Biden is shown behind a closing door.
Incriminations
Osita Nwanevu
The Democrats Are Having a False Reckoning Over Joe Biden
The Real Elitists
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
Monica Potts
The Real Elitists
Monica Potts
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
The Real Elitists
UCLA graduates celebrate at their commencement in 2024.
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
Monica Potts
UCLA graduates celebrate at their commencement in 2024.
The Real Elitists
Monica Potts
The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class
NOT AGAIN …
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Faiz Shakir
NOT AGAIN …
Faiz Shakir
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
NOT AGAIN …
Delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Faiz Shakir
Delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
NOT AGAIN …
Faiz Shakir
Wrong Again, Democrats: Paying “Influencers” Misses the Boat
Filibusted
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Grace Segers
Filibusted
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Filibusted
Senate Majority Leader John Thune conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Grace Segers
Senate Majority Leader John Thune conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Filibusted
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Flirt With Nuking the Filibuster
Big Flop
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Liza Featherstone
Big Flop
Liza Featherstone
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Big Flop
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Maine
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
Liza Featherstone
Commercial fishermen off the coast of Maine
Big Flop
Liza Featherstone
Trump Isn’t the Godsend That Fishermen Had Hoped For
PODCAST
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PODCAST
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face
Editor’s Picks
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to members of the press as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol. House lawmakers are back at Capitol Hill this week to work on the budget bill.
Timothy Noah
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country
The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.
Pope Francis meets with Vice President JD Vance during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City.
Dana Vachon
How Pope Francis Saved the Catholic Church From JD Vance
By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.
TNR Features
A parody photo-illustration of Trump and his associates storming Greenland via Viking ship
Northern Fights
Christopher Hooks
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
Politics
People hold an upside down American flag outside the Supreme Court.
Matthew Wollin
The Obscure Legal Doctrine Guiding the Supreme Court Into Oblivion
The high court is stretching an interpretive philosophy to the breaking point to avoid confrontations with Trump.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
Grace Segers
Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy.
Registered nurse Brandi Gregory turns on an operating light at Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo, Texas
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Monica Potts
Registered nurse Brandi Gregory turns on an operating light at Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo, Texas
Monica Potts
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
Susan Rinkunas
Susan Rinkunas
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
A photograph of a protester holding up a wire hanger with the words "keep abortion safe" written on it to illustrate this story.
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
Susan Rinkunas
A photograph of a protester holding up a wire hanger with the words "keep abortion safe" written on it to illustrate this story.
Susan Rinkunas
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
Culture
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.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, comments on the latest developments in his dispute with the White House and Arm Secretary Robert T. Stevens.
Marin Scotten
The Red Scare Still Haunts America
The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
Climate
An aerial view of traffic moving on Interstate 80 in Emeryville, California, in mid-May.
crash and burn
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rewriting Congressional Rules So Cars Can Pollute More
The GOP engineered a complicated maneuver to stop letting California set its own vehicle emissions standards. The consequences could reach far beyond air quality.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
Kate Aronoff
House Speaker Mike Johnson, center, spoke with Representative Jodey Arrington, center left, at the U.S. Capitol on May 15.
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are Rejoicing as They Gut a Bill That Benefits Red States
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
Left photograph: fallen trees and damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina is cleared by heavy machinery in order to reopen a road while a person stands outside of a home watching in September 2024. Right, David Richardson, the newly appointed senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
Kate Aronoff
Left photograph: fallen trees and damage from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina is cleared by heavy machinery in order to reopen a road while a person stands outside of a home watching in September 2024. Right, David Richardson, the newly appointed senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.
Kate Aronoff
The New Acting Administrator of FEMA Wrote a Novel. It’s Not Good.
From the Magazine
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.
All Too Rare
Melissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?
A portrait of a young R. Crumb
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential
Bob Dylan onstage on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour
MagazineWin McCormack
Can We Allow Bob Dylan to Be Himself?
Collage of Homer Simpson and Pete Hegseth
MagazineThe New Republic
Who Said It: Homer Simpson or Pete Hegseth?
The Daily Blast Podcast
Donald Trump is staring into the upper left corner, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, with a microphone positioned to the left of his mouth.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump Unravels in Crazed Rants to Media as Poll Reveals Fresh Weakness
As Trump’s latest presser goes awry in multiple ways, a careful observer of public opinion on Trump argues that the anti-MAGA majority is finally reconstituting itself—and explains how Trump himself made it happen.
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
As Trump rages at the rocker and his allies criminally charge a House Democrat, a reporter who’s tracking Trump’s weaponization of investigatory power explains why MAGA’s true intentions are so alarming.
Podcast
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry Walmart Tirade Backfires, Wrecking His Own Tariff Scam
Podcast
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
Podcast
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
Trump’s Threats to Defy Courts Go Nuclear as MAGA Rages at New Losses
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Purple and white crossword illustration with the initials TNR as an entry.
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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