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Surprised by Bill Barr? Don’t be. Oh, yes, it’s shocking that he said on Fox News on Wednesday night that if push comes to shove, he’ll be...
We’re finally here. This week, Donald Trump will sit in a courtroom and face criminal charges. The courtroom has not been kind to Trump this year: A...
It’s been pathetic over these recent years to watch people impute certain skills to Donald Trump. Oh, he’s very smart politically. He’s...
It should be plenty clear by now that the contemporary right in this country has only two principles: one, maintain power; two, troll the libs. Every...
Finally, the Biden administration appears to be starting to get serious with Benjamin Netanyahu. The president’s 30-minute phone call with the prime...
You may have noticed over the weekend that Donald Trump posted to social media a video of a MAGA pickup truck barreling down what looked to be the...
White Rural Rage , the new book by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, stands out in its genre for some of the things it doesn’t do. It’s not a long...
I’m going to tell you something that I’m pretty sure you don’t know—and that you probably won’t even believe. Ready? Real wages are now...
Joanna Chen, as you may know, is the Israeli journalist, writer, and translator who recently published a piece in the literary quarterly Guernica ...
James Comer, that caged monkey with a cocaine drip, just can’t stop. He wants President Biden to come to his House committee to testify. At the end...
Saturday afternoon, at yet another poorly attended rally in Ohio, Donald Trump spoke these shocking words: “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s...
Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on the case against Donald Trump in that jurisdiction,...
The conclusion of Evan Osnos’s big New Yorker profile of Joe Biden from last week ends on a note that is still ringing in my mind. Osnos asks the...
Joe Biden more than made it through Thursday night’s State of the Union address. That moment that his supporters always fear—the major brain fart,...
Thursday brings the State of the Union address (didn’t these used to happen in January?). Let’s cut to the chase. What does Joe Biden need to do?...
I’ve had a few conversations with fellow liberals over the last two days that went something like this: I can’t believe the Supreme Court did...
For this edition of The Inside Story, TNR editor Michael Tomasky spoke with Rick Wilson, the former Republican consultant and co-founder of the...
The Michigan primary is Tuesday, and there won’t be much drama as far as who the winners, on either side, will be—Joe Biden and Donald Trump are...
For me and for most of my friends—and I’m guessing for you—the Trump presidency was daily hell for four years. Four years and more, really. For...
The big headlines Friday morning concerned Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the combative testimony Thursday she offered concerning her...
Well, of course both The New York Times and The Washington Post led with stories Saturday morning about Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity. The story...
Not long ago, a video surfaced of House Speaker Mike Johnson appearing before the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. He told a tale of how...
Today brings a special-edition Tomaskycast, wherein I jaw with senior editor and writer Alex Shephard about the Super Bowl. Well, when we say Super...
Well, well, well. Are you shocked that the border deal fell apart? If you are, where have you been these last eight-plus years? It happened for the...
We once again come to the start of yet another week that could, and by rights should, destroy Donald Trump. This Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear...
We learned this week, via Jonathan Lemire and some Politico colleagues, that Joe Biden uses salty language about Donald Trump in private. He’s a...
Think $83.3 million is a lot of money? Well, hold onto your hat, buster, because this week, New York Judge Arthur Engoron is supposed to announce the...
The political conventional wisdom is hard to define sometimes. Usually it’s one of those things that’s just there, like your body temperature....
I know that you come here for my honeyed prose and can’t bear the idea of turning away, but I have to recommend that you watch the video below....
You have no doubt seen the incredibly depressing news about the incredibly depressing purchase of The Baltimore Sun by the incredibly depressing...
For this month’s edition of The Inside Story, TNR editor Michael Tomasky spoke with Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and...
In case you didn’t tune in Monday night, there was some drama in in the Iowa caucuses—at least around the idea of who would finish second. It was...
Sometime this month, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron will decide how much Donald Trump should pay in penalties in the fraud case brought...
Anyone under the age of 40 reading this may find it hard to believe, but there was a time when the Republican Party had a brain. There were a number...
President Biden will give what they’re billing as the first speech of his reelection campaign today, and in it, he will attack Donald Trump by name...
It’s finally election year, and if you are sick with anticipation, you have good reason. This will be the ugliest election of our lifetimes by...
All right, friends. Let’s play Jeopardy! Forgettable Losers for $200, you say? Very well! The answer is: Theodore Pomeroy and Michael Kerr....
The Colorado Supreme Court, in a bombshell 4–3 decision on Tuesday, ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from running for...
For people who accuse people like you and me of living in a cave, these people…sure live in a cave. Think about it. Republican House members go back...
New Republic editor Michael Tomasky spoke on December 13 with Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy about his recent article for TNR, “The...
The number of minutes I spent over the weekend being angry about the resignation of Liz Magill, who stepped down as president of the University of...
1. According to Billboard, this is the oldest English-language Christmas carol, dating back to the 1650s: A. “Silent Night” B. “Lo, How a...
Almost everyone has been piling on that pitiful troika of elite university presidents after their congressional testimony on Tuesday. A few other...
Donald Trump reassured his adoring supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over the weekend that he will assume a new role: democracy’s defender. ...
Robert Zimmerman remembers the frustration all too well. He kept telling people that the district wasn’t as Democratic as they assumed. He kept...
A lot of people are talking about the long piece Robert Kagan wrote in The Washington Post on Thursday about how, as the headline put it, “A...
A story has been bouncing around on TikTok lately about a guy who went to a McDonald’s in Idaho in late 2022 and his meal came to $16.10. He posted...
I’m as amused as the next person by the antics of George Santos, though it’s nice to see that when the House returns from its Thanksgiving break,...
We’ve all often wondered whether Donald Trump understands the historical import of what comes out of his mouth. He’s so ill-informed, so proudly...
Everybody is in a tizzy about Joe Manchin’s retirement announcement . And maybe they should be. The conventional wisdom for months, or even for a...