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The Republican Tax Bill Screws the Working Class

Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.

Editor’s Picks

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.

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Alexander 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

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The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump

Politics

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside Donald Trump during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

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.

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Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War

The administration is using immigration enforcement as a guise to mask its plans to decimate vital research and academic freedom.

Culture

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Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance

The filmmaker’s tale of modern China probes the emotional toll of living through two decades of social upheaval.

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My Digital Pregnancy

In a smart, well-observed memoir, a longtime reporter on internet culture explores how childbearing has become inescapably mediated by technology.

From the Magazine

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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.

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Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

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

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

The Daily Blast Podcast

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood

As Trump corruptly accepts a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar, Representative Jamie Raskin explains why this is an “outrageous abuse” of the Constitution—and what Democrats will do now.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2025.

The 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.

Games & Quizzes

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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.

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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?