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Alex ShephardNew Republic |
Every presidential election is billed as the most important of our lifetime. But in 2020, voters seemed to actually believe it. Amid the Covid-19...
The fact that Donald Trump is being forced to sit in a chilly New York courtroom for weeks, during a period when his presidential campaign should be...
As his attorneys and prosecutors barter over pretrial motions and potential jurors in the first criminal trial of a former president in American...
On Monday, Donald Trump released a short, pre-taped video that ostensibly revealed, after months of speculation, his position on abortion. “My view...
As the MLB season ramps up and NBA season winds down, both leagues are making headlines with rather bizarre gambling scandals. ESPN revealed last...
On Tuesday, as he announced Nicole Shanahan, a top donor and little-known 38-year-old Silicon Valley lawyer with no political experience, as his...
NBC News should have seen this coming. Since the network announced last week that it had hired Ronna Romney McDaniel, the recently ousted chair of the...
Donald Trump is broke. He has spent the last month desperately searching, and failing, to find an underwriter for the $464 million bond he owes the...
Until last week, there was rare bipartisan agreement in Washington on the most pressing national security issue of our time: TikTok, the Chinese-owned...
A month ago, the consensus in legal and political circles was that the Supreme Court was on the verge of a grand bargain. The justices would...
In the wake of Tuesday’s Michigan primary, much of the media attention has understandably focused on the warning it represents to President...
Democrats are in a panic about Joe Biden. His approval rating hovers at a dismal 40 percent. His age, 81, is becoming impossible to ignore, thanks to...
Appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson offered a chilling thought: Donald Trump, she said, “is...
When Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur as special counsel overseeing the Justice Department’s investigation into Joe Biden’s...
Donald Trump pretends he’s still the president. You will not find the word “former” in any of his official statements or social media accounts;...
A year ago, a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, displacing hundreds of residents and poisoning the air and...
One version of the abrupt, spectacular downfall of The Messenger, the news site that shuttered abruptly on Wednesday after its founders blew $50...
Joe Biden wants to shut down the border. On Friday, as the Senate continued negotiations over legislation to provide aid to Ukraine in exchange for...
Donald Trump is desperate for the 2024 Republican contest to be over. Instead of celebrating his decisive win in New Hampshire earlier this week, the...
Eight years ago, when Donald Trump romped to victory in New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, his critics within the party could be...
Mike Johnson should have seen this coming. In October, the then-backbencher became speaker of the House after far-right radicals ousted Kevin McCarthy...
Joe Biden wants the 2024 presidential election to be a referendum on the future of American democracy. It’s not hard to see why. There is an...
For decades, the dullest rite of passage in American politics has been the campaign book. In the months before any presidential election, the...
In one sense, Elon Musk has gotten exactly what he wanted. For all his talk about free speech, his primary motivation for sinking $44 billion into...
Not so long ago, the idea of a bespoke Tucker Carlson-run news network would be a terrifying proposition to many. During the period marked by Donald...
Presidential reelection campaigns are rarely dynamic or exciting. The theme is carrying on rather than change: The emphasis is on continuing work that...
In the late spring, the Club for Growth, the conservative organization that has spent more than two decades excommunicating any Republican it deems...
George Santos is emblematic of Congress’s reality television era—where fame for its own sake, rather than legislative accomplishments, earns you...
Even by its own dismal recent standards, this has been a chaotic week in Congress. On Tuesday, the chamber nearly saw an outbreak of physical violence...
Donald Trump is talking like a Nazi again. Over the weekend, in both a speech and a subsequent social media post, he referred to his enemies as...
As voters went to the polls on Tuesday, Democrats were in a panic. A New York Times/Siena poll released on Sunday showed that a year out from the...
Even the most dismal political poll usually has some silver lining for the trailing candidate: a demographic in which the flailing politician is...
Mike Johnson became speaker of the House last week practically by default. A relatively unknown backbencher, the Louisiana Republican snatched the...
On Thursday, after weeks spent in clownish limbo, House Republicans finally banded together and unanimously elected a speaker. Mike Johnson, a...
As Jim Jordan and his allies attempted to whip speaker votes last week, they kept running into a familiar refrain from their skeptics: Their brass...
The House speaker’s race has entered its Groundhog Day era. Every day, Republicans meet to try to elect a new speaker and every day they fail in new...
Much of the coverage of Joe Biden’s speech in Israel on Wednesday has understandably focused on a warning. “Justice must be done,” Biden said,...
Not so long ago, Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan’s candidacy for speaker of the House looked dead in the water. Jordan, a founder of the...
Senator Robert Menendez, who was already facing a slew of bribery charges, was hit with a raft of new accusations on Thursday, with federal...
Early Tuesday morning, as Israeli rockets struck Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s devastating attacks over the previous weekend, X owner Elon Musk...
Despite having several years to learn about their quarry, most of the media never really figured out how to cover Donald Trump. Some journalists got...
The televised debate to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives is off—for now. On Friday, only hours after speaker candidates Steve...
After enormous dramas, intense scandals, a notable awardless year, a subsequent year in which one of the winner’s politics were very ... fraught,...
To hear Republicans tell it, Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House on Tuesday was all the fault of their Democratic colleagues. “I think...
If there’s one thing to say about Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House by a 216–210 vote , it’s this: This week’s chaos was...
The worst thing that you can say about Rupert Murdoch, who resigned from the board of the Fox and News Corporations on Tuesday, is that no one has had...
The best way of understanding House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to back a baseless, ridiculous impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is...
Democrats are right to laugh off House Republicans’ futile effort to impeach President Joe Biden, as Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman did on...
There is little good news for Joe Biden in a recent poll in The Wall Street Journal that has the president neck and neck with Donald Trump in a...