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This week, the direct air capture company Climeworks unveiled the world’s largest-ever facility to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. Mammoth,...
Ever since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, a central tenet of his bond with his supporters has been a simple promise to them:...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is no longer welcome in 16 percent of her home state. The MAGA Republican has been banned from the territories of...
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that an El Paso woman who gave birth despite supposedly receiving a tubal ligation can’t sue her medical...
Former President Donald Trump sat through an excruciating week of testimony in his New York trial on fraud charges over his payments to porn star...
If Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, Republicans and conservatives want criminals to die—literally. Project 2025, a coalition of...
After removing Confederate names from two of its public schools during the summer of 2020, a rural Virginia county has become the first school...
Donald Trump is—once again—trying to backpedal on his opinions about TikTok. The presumed GOP presidential nominee is trying to argue that it...
Donald Trump is suddenly in the odd situation of having to defend against his own words. An old tweet of his was admitted into evidence in his...
If you’d known what to look for, you could have seen it coming miles and miles away: the demise of movement conservatism in the face of Trumpism....
Donald Trump’s former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson could leave the Republican Party behind and vote for Joe Biden in November. Hutchinson...
As many have observed, democracies don’t die overnight. There’s no One Big Event that does it. It happens bit by bit. Noticing it requires paying...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham is upset that an insult against Donald Trump, “orange turd,” has been repeatedly mentioned in trial coverage, despite...
Porn star Stormy Daniels is goading Doanld Trump to take the stand following her testimony—though actually doing so may not turn out so well for...
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia rejected Steve Bannon’s appeal case Friday, upholding a criminal...
Migratory birds are getting a bad rap right now, as avian influenza cases multiply and appear in new species. “The reason it’s become such a...
Our prehistoric ancestors never went away. This is what Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argued in his international blockbuster Sapiens: A...
It has never been a better time to be a corporate lobbyist. The Republican Party, having run out of ideas, no longer even pretends to represent...
Industry marketing campaigns have long conditioned Americans to believe that gas stoves are the height of bourgeois suburban sophistication and the...
On Thursday, Stormy Daniels faced tough cross examination from Donald Trump’s attorneys in his hush money trial in Manhattan. By most accounts,...
Stephen Ujlaki began his career in film “50 years ago doing antiwar films.” In the intervening years, he’s produced many feature films, but...
After just a bit more than a year of marriage and the recent birth of his youngest child, Donald Trump coerced Stormy Daniels into having sex with...
An independent investigation has now confirmed allegations raised last November by a Wall Street Journal report that the Federal Deposit Insurance...
In the Indiana GOP primary on Tuesday night, Donald Trump lost 22 percent of GOP primary voters to Nikki Haley. That’s surprising, since Haley...
Nearly two years since the Dobbs decision, it’s clear that the end of Roe didn’t end abortion; rather, it has turned the decisions we make about...
It was just past 1 p.m. on the first Friday in May, and a two-day festival of “dangerous ideas” was about to begin in a glassy warehouse on the...
Donald Trump’s sexual escapades aren’t exactly the conquests that his allies have made them out to be—at least, not according to one woman he...
Donald Trump’s youngest son is about to join the new family business: leading the Republican conference. After he graduates from high school next...
Representative Marjorie Taylor Grenee’s spectacularly failed effort to strip Speaker Mike Johnson of the gavel has earned her a whole slew of new...
The dominant headline on The Wall Street Journal’s home page at midday Wednesday was “Chaos on Campus, in Gaza, Threatens Biden’s Campaign.”...
Very early Thursday morning, Donald Trump was posting feverishly on his Truth Social account, with one “Truth” being an article from the...
After Judge Aileen Cannon announced that Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida has been postponed indefinitely , there’s been a...
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels got in some jabs at Donald Trump, who is accused of paying her off via his lawyer to cover up their affair before...
A bit of alleged unsolicited advice may have compromised the judge in Donald Trump’s $454 million New York bank fraud trial. New York’s...
Donald Trump’s attorneys attempted Thursday to throw out his hush-money case on the basis that the trial had unnecessarily turned into an...
Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba thinks it’s a violation of the First Amendment to be prohibited from attacking witnesses. Fox News presenter...
Columbia University alumni are firing back at the university over its crackdown on student protests demanding the school divest from Israel-aligned...
At a press conference Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed a right-wing conspiracy theory that undocumented immigrants are voting in...
Donald Trump simply can’t help himself from taking a solid jab at the partial gag order he’s under in his New York hush-money trial. The...
President Biden briefly held up sending weapons to Israel this week, and Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson promptly freaked out. The Speaker of the...
If you’re a big fan of money in politics, then the Federal Election Commission made your day last week with two important moves: one that could...
Nikki Haley is still haunting Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. Three months after abandoning her long-shot campaign, Haley still managed to...
Donald Trump just got some good news on another legal front. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review the decision to keep Fulton County...
America’s disgraced mayor seems to have lost practically everything in his bid to aid Donald Trump. A Tuesday filing in United States Bankruptcy...
Months into contentious contract negotiations, the Progressive Workers Union, representing around 400 Sierra Club employees, now alleges that the...
As if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn’t get any weirder, the presidential candidate has admitted that a doctor once suspected a worm ate part of his...
Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI,...
This week, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is deciding whether to call a snap vote to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker. She has a list of...
After complaining about being forced to attend his hush-money trial, Donald Trump is spending his day off with people who spent thousands of...
The magazine made the case for military intervention in the Balkans, persistently and passionately. It was a model of activist journalism,...
The editors of The New Republic both craved and attracted spiritual godfathers. Louis Brandeis, John Dewey, Learned Hand, and Felix Frankfurter...
One of the unusual features of the modern New Republic has been the depth of its writing about Judaism. That is the handiwork of literary editor...
Humor is not the primary métier of The New Republic nor, for that matter, of liberalism. But there’s a small tradition that includes this cute,...
The New Republic trumpeted its connections to the New Deal. One of its advertisements cited testimony from a visitor to the Oval Office who claimed...
This essay sounds unlike the Walter Lippmann—that granite fixture on the opinion раgе—who became so well known. There’s not a hint of any...
Quite simply, one of the finest essays on Kafka ever written. —Franklin Foer, former TNR editor, Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics...
A Republican lawmaker has decided that the violent detention of college students participating in Gaza solidarity protests isn’t enough of a...
There is nothing new or unexpected about Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance. When President Bill Clinton first met him at the White House in...
The Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic Party,” and migrants coming to the United States “have no interest in being...
Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial Tuesday went too far and warrants a mistrial , his lawyers tried to argue. Part of...
Judges do not comment on politics. This principle is so fundamental to the American legal system that writing it out feels like writing that...
A Biden administration report that could cut off military aid to Israel has been indefinitely delayed. The State Department was anticipated to...
Judge Aileen Cannon has handed another reprieve to Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. The case was expected to be one of...
Stormy Daniels used an all-too-familiar line to get out of having sex with Donald Trump. Recounting one instance in 2007 when the pair met at a...
The GOP hasn’t been able to regain its financial footing since it lost its key fundraiser: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. According to...
It was not Scott Sheffield’s job, as the former CEO of oil and gas company Pioneer Resources, to keep oil prices low. Neither is it the job of any...
The Biden economy is in excellent shape, and that’s a problem for what my onetime boss Jacob Weisberg wittily labelled the Conintern....
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan has already served up some extraordinary moments. On Friday, former Trump aide Hope Hicks’s...
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is at the center of the allegations against Donald Trump in his hush-money trial, is the next witness on the...
Donald Trump got a day off from his hush-money trial next week after requesting to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation. But on the same...
In the spring of 1985, more than 100 Columbia University students blockaded Hamilton Hall for three weeks, protesting the university’s financial...
The encampment at Wesleyan University went up on the night of Sunday, April 28, during a planned rally in support of Palestinians. At the time, I...
Let’s state this right at the outset: The New York Times has produced a remarkable run of indispensable journalism about Donald Trump’s...
Stormy Daniels’s testimony in the hush-money trial may have restricted Donald Trump’s ability to testify on his own terms. The porn actress’s...
Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, and, not surprisingly, shared some weird and gross details about...
Judge Aileen Cannon, who coincidentally was appointed by Donald Trump, announced Tuesday afternoon that she is indefinitely postponing his...
In court Tuesday during Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, some new and unusual nicknames were entered into the legal record during adult film...
A former accountant in the Trump Organization dropped a bombshell during her testimony at Donald Trump’s hush-money trial Monday. According to...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just got a random—and possibly unwelcome—endorsement in the presidential election from Kevin Spacey. Kennedy’s...
Georgia’s former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan announced Monday that he is endorsing Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a stunning...
A group of Republican senators have threatened the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and his family against issuing...