‘Cultural Disconnect’ Led to New Republic Resignations (Libs...
Roughly two dozen staffers and contributing editors at The New Republic resigned on Friday as the result of what one of them described as an ugly cultural clash between a traditional journalistic...
View ArticleNew Republic Editor Decides Political Hack as Ebola Czar Is OK
One has to give The New Republic editor Jonathan Cohn some credit. At least he was beset with some brief soul searching over the fact that the new Ebola Czar is a political hack with no medical...
View ArticleA Eulogy for The New Republic
Not long after he purchased The New Republic, Chris Hughes had lunch with me, as he was doing with quite a few journalists around Washington. At one point, he asked me who the best editor had been...
View ArticleTNR veterans protest Hughes' 'destruction' (The New Republic)
Three former editors of The New Republic -- Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Beinart and Andrew Sullivan -- have joined more than a dozen of their fellow TNR veterans in protesting the "destruction" of the...
View ArticleDaily Beast: MSM Fawned Over New Republic Owner Before Turning on Him
The normally liberal Daily Beast published an article about The New Republic owner Chris Hughes that is chock full of criticism of the Facebook multi-millionaire However, what is most surprising is...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst...
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 nation’s 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 Brazil’s new president, has been called the “Brazilian Trump.” But he’s 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 O’Rourke proclaimed, during the second round of Democratic presidential debates, that “there’s 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
It’s no exaggeration to say that American politics has operated in Herbert Croly’s and FDR’s shadow ever since the Great Depression—nearly a century. What’s striking about this election cycle’s...
View ArticleThis Is How Trump Will Try to Take Down Kamala Harris
Are the Democrats ready for grotesque attacks about the senator’s ex-boyfriend Willie Brown?
View ArticleFreak Out as Conservatives Exit Public Schools, Abandon Reform
The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to “reform” government schools in favor of a...
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