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Last August, TNR’s Matt Ford took a look a year ahead, saw that former President Donald Trump would be competing in a Republican primary while...
How are the CEOs doing these days? Last time we checked in, the plutocrats in the executive suites were hard at work, securing further plunder through...
Our little experiment in multiracial democracy rarely leaves an encounter with the Supreme Court unscathed, but Monday’s 9–0 decision in Trump v....
On May 3, 2022, Maine Senator Susan Collins greeted news of the leaked draft of the Dobbs decision with her trademark rue: “If this leaked draft...
On a debate stage in 2019, former Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro went there : suggesting that fellow...
What do Democrats need to do to win in November? The New Republic took up that question this month in a series in which some of the brightest minds...
The first few weeks of this young year have only resurfaced an old problem: the continuing economic havoc that’s roiling the journalism industry....
Just about three years ago, Time’s Molly Ball dropped an epic piece of reportage on the wild months from Joe Biden’s presidential victory through...
It appears that we’re all going to pretend to have a GOP primary a little longer. Eight days after his decisive win in the Iowa caucus winnowed...
It’s possible that the 2024 presidential primary will go down as the shortest in American history. This week’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Iowa...
The media spent a large part of Donald Trump’s presidency waiting for the moment that he might become presidential. Like fools, they manned this...
It turns out that pulling off a scheme to use fake electors to overturn a presidential election isn’t as easy as you might think. What if, for...
Pharmaceutical company executive-turned-Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy is facing a fresh round of speculation that his long shot bid...
South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham has taken a dim view of a recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, which determined former President Donald...
Ever since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Republican Party has gotten a crash...
The possibility that we might, as The New Republic’s editor Michael Tomasky put it, “sleepwalk” into a second Trump presidency is very real,...
Money gets a bad rap in some quarters. It’s said that it “isn’t everything,” that it cannot “buy you happiness,” that loving it is “the...
Josh Hawley is at it again. Over a brief career in Washington, the elfin senator from Missouri—when he’s not egging on and then fleeing from...
What does the future hold for Kyrsten Sinema? The Arizona senator, who’s best described as a dull person’s idea of an interesting person, famously...
By the time you read this, the House of Representatives may have a new speaker. It also might not have a new speaker. I can’t say for certain what...
ANSWER: Nope! Hours ahead of a third vote for speaker of the House, Representative Jim Jordan insisted that he’s not backing down. For about 10...
I’m not the sort of person to wager money on Supreme Court rulings based on the tenor of oral arguments, but TNR contributor Matt Ford was one of...
There’s a new senator in Washington, D.C., this week: Laphonza Butler, a former president of Emily’s List, was tapped by California Governor Gavin...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tends to get a lot of grief whenever she offers her opinion about how the country needs a “strong Republican...
It would appear that anti-abortion conservatives are starting to come around to the realization that when the Supreme Court gutted Roe in its 2022...
Donald Trump may have spent the past year creaming his wan Republican competition in the polls, but the news has not been all wine and roses for the...