The Grown-Up Art of Andor

There are no lightsabers in the first episode of Andor —no Jedi, no Sith, and no references to the Force. There are no Imperial officers or...

On the Rail Strike, Biden Turned His Back on Workers

From time to time the Democrats are given an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re still the party of the working class. They have one now, but...

It’s 2050. Does the United States of America as We Once Knew It Still Exist?

What is the future of our divided land? It’s a question at which some people scoff, and one that others just want to avoid. At The New Republic,...

Expanding Citizen Power Beyond the Ballot Box

When I close my eyes and try to project myself and this country forward three decades in time, my mind darkens. The future, even the not-so-distant...

Our Best-Case Scenario: A Negotiated Breakup

It’s not unreasonable to think that we can make out the shape of things to come 28 years in the future. It was right around 28 years ago that the...

Georgia Republican Lieutenant Governor Says He Couldn’t Vote for Herschel Walker

The Vanishing Community

My second meeting with Niccolò Machiavelli took place in L’Albergaccio, the tavern where he spent much of his time after being exiled from Florence...

The Many Ways She Said Misses Its Own Point

In 2017, when New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of sexual assault allegations against famed Hollywood...

Surprise, Surprise: Republicans Are Planning to Hold the Debt Ceiling Hostage—Again

Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd days before the 2022 midterms, Florida Senator—and chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee—Rick...

Senate Votes to Impose Contract On Rail Workers, But Not Give Them Paid Sick Leave

Democrats Face Their Next Big Power Scrap as the Race to Run the DCCC Heats Up

On Wednesday, not long after New York’s Representative Hakeem Jeffries was elected to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic leader,...

Manchin, Whose State Was Built by Unions, Rejects Paid Leave for Rail Workers

Full List of Senators Who Voted Against Giving Rail Workers Paid Sick Leave

“People Are Right to Be Upset”: Ro Khanna on “Economic Patriotism”

Shortly after the election, I met Representative Ro Khanna of California and his press aide for a coffee on Capitol Hill. It was the very day,...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Media Tour to Explain How Everything Is Just a Mistake

A Tale of Two Economic Recoveries

The United States economy’s rebound from the Covid-19 recession has been five times faster than its recovery after the Great Recession. You read...

Kanye West Tells Alex Jones: “I Like Hitler”

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Suspending Liberal Accounts for “Spam”

Selfie for the Afterlife

The jelly-spattered hand of a toddlerflicks the switch up and down,turning on and cutting off the lights,covering the faceplate in a...

Night Visitor

I’ve had more soothing callers at my window:the muse brushes by like a dangling scarf;the helium balloon for my neighbor’s nuptials, tied to...

GOP House Judiciary Deletes “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” Tweet After Kanye Says He Likes Hitler

The Climate Villains of the Rail Strike

Members of four unions that represent 55 percent of the U.S. freight rail labor force voted last week to reject a tentative agreement on a...

The Supreme Court Takes on the Chaos-World of Federal Immigration Priorities

Earlier this year, a federal judge in Texas effectively commandeered federal immigration enforcement at the behest of a coalition of Republican-led...

Led by Progressives, House Votes to Avert Rail Strike and Give Workers Sick Leave

You Can Thank Progressives For Forcing a Vote on Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers

House Democrats Elect Hakeem Jeffries As Party’s First Black Leader

Congress Needs to Rein in Presidential Emergency Powers Now

This lame duck Congress has a lot on its plate, and many of these items have received considerable coverage: the repeal of the Defense of Marriage...

Did “Union Joe” Just Doom Democrats’ Push To Give Rail Workers Paid Sick Leave?

Keep New Hampshire on the Presidential Calendar

It sounds like a vintage Abbott and Costello sketch, but the question of “who’s on first” continues to roil the Democrats. Later this week, a...

Here’s Michiganders’ Pitch on Why They Should Be First in 2024

If you’re a Michigan diehard, here’s the argument you’re making right now as the state’s delegation fights to move up its position in the...

Netanyahu Explicitly (Tepidly) Condemns Trump for Dinner with Antisemite Nick Fuentes

The Love Song of T.S. Eliot

When he was 25, T.S. Eliot fell in love with a woman named Emily Hale. The two had known each other slightly as teenagers—both came from...

Democrats Now Have Six Years of Trump’s Tax Returns

In Praise of the Messy, Glorious U.S. Men’s National Team

There have certainly been prettier goals. Brazil has produced two far superior ones—two perfectly Brazilian screamers—in one fewer game. United...

Cormac McCarthy’s Respite From Loneliness

A man walks across a barren landscape. He may be wounded, or ill, but he is strong enough to survive. As he walks, he pays close attention to the...

World Cup Paradox: If Protesting Iran Team Beats U.S., They Help the Regime

When the U.S. Men’s National Team faces off against Iran in the World Cup Tuesday, it will be after days of rising tensions related to this...

Marco Rubio Pretends He Cares About Rail Workers

Kevin McCarthy Lies And Says Trump Condemned Fuentes (He Never Did)

“Pro-Labor President” Backs Down Ahead of Rail Strike

President Joe Biden has striven to be known as a “pro-labor president,” including in his statement self-attesting to that description on Monday,...

Senate Passes Respect For Marriage Act Protecting Marriage Equality

Mitch McConnell Is Really Good At Not Condemning Trump’s White Supremacy

Full List of Republicans Who Voted Against Protecting Marriage Equality

How Whiskey and Chew Toys Dragged the Supreme Court Into a First Amendment Fracas

The Supreme Court joined millions of Americans last week in taking up whiskey right before the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The justices said last...

Georgia Shatters Early Voting Record in Senate Runoff, With 300,000 Votes in a Single Day

Kari Lake Won the County in Arizona That’s Refusing To Certify Election Results

Kevin McCarthy’s Pledge To Impeach Mayorkas Is A Gift To Democrats

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s pledge to impeach Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an early signal that the new...

Newsom’s Cynical Flip on Proposition 30 Should Disqualify Him From the Presidency

California Governor Gavin Newsom likes to brag about how much his administration has done to address climate change. In September, after he signed...

Mark Meadows Ordered To Testify on Georgia 2020 Election Interference

Oath Keepers Founder Convicted With Seditious Conspiracy in January 6 Case

The Culture Workers Go On Strike

Earlier this month, I spent a morning with Rachel Urkowitz on the picket lines in front of Parsons School of Design and the New School, which is...

Here’s What Every Potential 2024 Republican Nominee Said About Trump’s Dinner With Nick Fuentes

Republicans Are Really Quiet After Trump’s Dinner With White Supremacist Nicholas Fuentes

Don Lemon Grills Jewish Trump-Era Official on Nick Fuentes Dinner: Do You Condemn Trump?

Georgia Voters React to Herschel Walker Being Herschel Walker in New Warnock Ad

It’s Elites vs. Base in the Coming Republican Civil War

One of the important differences between the Democratic and Republican parties in this era of polarization lies in the elites’ attitudes toward...

The Improbable Site of Conservatives’ Latest Backlash Against “Wokeness”

At 1,308 feet above sea level, Chautauqua Lake in upstate New York is one of America’s highest navigable lakes, whose waters drain through a series...

America’s Post-Trump Delusion Is in Full Swing

Soul-searching, back-biting, recriminations, denunciations: This is the usual stuff of post-election seasons, though few would have predicted a...

Intersectional King Runs on World Cup Field With Pride Flag and Shirt Dedicated to Ukraine and Iran

The January 6 Committee Was a Boon to Democracy

In June, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd pressed House January 6 select committee member Representative Jamie Raskin on his “barometer of success”...

Katie Hobbs to Sue GOP-Controlled Arizona County Refusing to Certify the Election

U.S. Soccer Captain Shuts Down Iranian Reporter’s Whataboutism After Flag Row at World Cup

Voters Have Never Been More Evenly Divided Between the Two Parties. It’s Breaking Our Political System.

Now that the midterms have quieted the doomsters, it is time for Democrats and genuine never-Trump Republicans to dream big. The goal for...