The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay...
Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats. And now the media finally noticed. How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to...
View ArticleThe Future of the New Republic and Us
WASHINGTON -- I should like to pose a question to the overnight press baron Chris Hughes, who owns the New Republic that he has rendered moribund with astounding speed and no class at all. My question...
View ArticleRachel Dolezal Embodies White America’s Fears
Who are we allowed to become? Children growing up today are likely to believe they can be anyone they want to be, and parents and teachers have grown fond of the phrase Whatever you are, be a good...
View ArticleNew Republic: The Hypermasculine Violence of Omar Mateen and Brock Turner
America woke up this weekend to the news of the deadliest civilian mass shooting in the nations history. The senseless tragedy will undoubtedly evoke anger, sadness and helplessness. In the meantime,...
View ArticleThe New Republic: Media Matters Seeks New Identity in Post-Clinton World
Danny JohnstonDecember 20, 2016 Clio Chang and Alex Shephard write in The New Republic about the organizational shake-up and shift in focus at the leftwing media watchdog Media Matters for America. The...
View ArticleSarah Huckabee Sanders Is Worse Than Sean Spicer
<p>Yes, the press secretary is better at her job. But that is bad news for the rest of us.</p> <p>The face of the White House press operation has already undergone several iterations,...
View ArticleHamilton Fish of the New Republic Goes on Leave After Women's Complaints...
Hamilton Fish, the president and publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence pending an investigation into complaints by female employees at the magazine, according to a letter sent to...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: U.S. Heading Down Conspiracy Rabbit Hole (2017)
The other storyline is simply fantastical. Congressional Republicans have uniformly run away from Trump's Obama-wiretap accusation. Clapper denies it. FBI Director James Comey denies it. Not a single...
View ArticleClimate doomed without Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right nationalist who on Sunday was elected Brazils new president, has been called the Brazilian Trump. But hes more extreme than that. His rhetoric is more explicitly...
View ArticleA Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness...
By JEET HEER June 8, 2014 The science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once described himself as a preacher with no church. More accurately, he was a preacher with too many churches. Rare among the...
View ArticleTexas Republicans bracing for a Blue Wave in 2020. Yes, Texas
When Beto ORourke proclaimed, during the second round of Democratic presidential debates, that theres a new battleground state, Texas, and it has 38 Electoral College votes, eyes rolled in unison...
View ArticleEx-Mattis aide evades answering if he’s anonymous author of anti-Trump...
Former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass would neither confirm nor deny Monday that he is the anonymous administration official who wrote "A Warning" during an evasive appearance on Fox News amid speculation...
View ArticleA Dead Man Won the Last Democratic Presidential Debate
Its no exaggeration to say that American politics has operated in Herbert Crolys and FDRs shadow ever since the Great Depressionnearly a century. Whats striking about this election cycles...
View ArticleThis Is How Trump Will Try to Take Down Kamala Harris
Are the Democrats ready for grotesque attacks about the senators ex-boyfriend Willie Brown?
View ArticleStanley Kauffmann, Erudite Film Critic, Dies at 97
Stanley Kauffmann, whose literate, tightly constructed movie reviews appeared in The New Republic for more than half a century and set a standard for critical ease and erudition, died on Wednesday in...
View ArticleIran Is Not Our Friend
On the foreign policy front . . . I find myself 
wondering why we cannot regard another country, in this case Iran, 
as just that, as one more country which we would regard as neither friend...
View Article'Close Observers of History' Hate Ollie North
Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Tim Graham. For its second season, the creators of the FX series "The Americans" have chosen a new source for insight into the Cold War during the Reagan...
View ArticleClinton says Obama on firm ground on immigration
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday noted that previous U.S. presidents have issued some type of executive order on immigration, suggesting his Democratic successor was on “pretty firm legal...
View ArticleNew Republic mass resignations: Any need for ‘restructuring’ now?
In a memo to staff yesterday announcing a masthead shake-up, New Republic chief executive Guy Vidra wrote that a reduction in the frequency of the 100-year-old magazine would require a staff...
View ArticleLiberalism has one job...
If Ezra Klein isn't being completely ridiculous he is being totally revealing (in a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot kind of way) about what and how liberals think.Today he opined on the demise of The New...
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