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Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.

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Sotomayor cited each of her conservative colleagues in her dissent. She highlighted past arguments they had made in favor of respecting congressional intent, rather than imposing their own view on something—skewering their hypocrisy in Friday’s ruling.
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We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all,
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X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday suspended the accounts of multiple prominent journalists and left-leaning commentators and comedians, many of whom were critical of X owner Elon Musk.
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Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.
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Elon Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist,” has been accused of suspending the account of a group organizing voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Elon Musk, a self-declared “free speech absolutist,” has been accused of suspending the account of a group organizing voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The Department of Justice wants former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to begin his prison sentence immediately.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
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“The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States.”
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Donald Trump’s campaign and the Trump Organization paid off nine witnesses called to testify in criminal cases against Trump, an explosive new report from ProPublica reveals.
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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“He’ll start throwing people in jail, and I’d be at the top of the list,” said Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—a man not given to hyperbole, who understands how autocrats operate.
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“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation...[to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
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Republicans’ main witness in their efforts to impeach Joe Biden has already been charged with lying to the FBI. Now, he has also admitted to having ties to Russian intelligence officers.
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In 2016, when Clinton campaign emails were leaked, the press ran with them hot and heavy. But today, the same outlets are sitting on a Trump campaign hack. Why?
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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The Trump town hall earned CNN no end of mockery on the day of the event. Weeks later, however, we're seeing knock-on effects in the form of staggeringly low ratings.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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“I am working with a number of my colleagues including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to revive legislation...[to] determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates including a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages. From @KenSilverstein1 :
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White supremacist and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Trump’s campaign early Friday, announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”
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An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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This is not a conspiracy. As we speak, Trump is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador AMLO isn't a progressive—he's an opportunist who could endanger Mexican democracy, @paulimison writes:
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This is not calling balls and strikes, people. This is monomaniacal, steroidal judicial activism. Alito and his cohort are not on the court to interpret law. They are on the court to change society.
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Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
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Mitch McConnell told a crowd of lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky, that a Harris administration would spell certain doom for the Republican Party. From @EllieHotel_ing :
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That Biden’s speech was political served as an excuse for lazy both sides journalism, as reporters scrambled to draw equivalence between Biden’s commentary and a movement that’s currently calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals.
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It looks like Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had his mind made up on presidential immunity from the start, and made no effort to negotiate with the court’s liberal justices.
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A new court filing alleges that Donald Trump’s campaign has paid to bury a number of lawsuits over sexual harassment and discrimination.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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Trump may just have exhausted the mental, physical, and emotional energy of swing voters who are simply tired of his antics and his rage.
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A secretly recorded conversation with Roger Stone suggests that the Donald Trump adviser and confidant is implying that the judge in Trump’s classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, could be in the convicted felon and former president’s pocket.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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In a stunning cave to far-right anti-LGBTQ fury, Starbucks has banned Pride decorations in its stores halfway through Pride Month, the company’s workers union revealed Tuesday.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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An analysis of Jared and Ivanka’s official financial disclosures revealed that while they were working at the White House, they reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income.
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SCOOP: TNR has obtained J.D. Vance's foreword for the upcoming book by Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts. Read it here. From @alex_shephard :
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A bill is on the table to expand the size of the court to 12 associate justices, which would match the number of justices to the number of circuit courts, thus giving each justice primary responsibility for decisions from one circuit.
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Trump is in full-blown meltdown mode, and it's all because Harris and Walz are doing what Democrats rarely do: hit back.
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Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.
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Trump’s cognitive decline has been notable for years, as he frequently rambles incoherently in a word-association whirlwind of nonsense about sharks, slurring his words, freezing—even forgetting his own son’s name.
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According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 99 percent of Jared Kushner’s investment firm's funds have come from foreign sources, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group's latest plot? A coordinated effort across at least 86 local news websites to suggest that Joe Biden is mentally unfit for the presidency, based on edited footage and misinformation.
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“I write today to demand that you immediately return to the American people the $7,886,072 that we know you have accepted from foreign governments,” @RepRaskin said in a letter to Trump.
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“The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States.”
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On Monday, Senator Ed Markey became the first senator to call for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign.
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The man who once worked to connect Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff to Russia is now chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Any questions?
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. @mtomasky : “It’s my understanding that there’s more news coming on Thomas and Crow. It seems highly possible that what we know so far, ghastly as it is, barely scratches the surface.”
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Amazon is on the cusp of becoming the first trillion dollar company ever. Amazon also paid zero federal taxes in 2017.
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Just weeks after a 6-year-old shot his teacher, a gun trade show in Las Vegas is hosting a manufacturer promoting its “JR-15,” a child-size AR-15 rifle.
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“Let me get this straight. You welcomed nude photos of Hunter Biden in a public hearing but you won’t welcome the testimony of Hunter Biden in a public hearing. If Hunter testified in the nude, would you then let him appear for a public hearing?”
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Republican tax cuts have thrown the nation into over $34 trillion of debt, gutted the middle class, and produced a reactionary embrace of classical fascism as a solution to the crises of debt, offshoring jobs, and a lack of social and economic mobility.
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Perhaps there’s still one crucial difference between the two parties, captured perfectly by the old aphorism: Republicans fear their base, and Democrats hate theirs.
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Hundreds of staffers that served under President George W. Bush, Arizona Senator John McCain, and Utah Senator Mitt Romney jointly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, writing that another presidency under Donald Trump would be “untenable.”
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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials?
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Hundreds of staffers that served under President George W. Bush, Arizona Senator John McCain, and Utah Senator Mitt Romney jointly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, writing that another presidency under Donald Trump would be “untenable.”
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“So tonight, let’s all agree—and apparently we are—let’s stand up for seniors,” Biden said during the State of the Union. “And if anyone tries to cut social security, which apparently no one’s gonna do
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The EPA says Tucson’s drinking water is contaminated, but the Air Force says it doesn’t have to do anything thanks to the Chevron ruling.
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If politicians are measured by their honesty, Pence destroyed his reputation tonight.
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Rupi Kaur’s achievement as an artist is the extent to which her work embodies, formally, the technology that defines contemporary life: smartphones and the internet.
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Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts.
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Scott Perry, who serves as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, was “central to the planning of January 6,” according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Now, there’s an effort in Pennsylvania to have Perry removed from the ballot.
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The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare our blinkered approach to mental health, revealing the fact of human interdependence and the need for structural approaches to mental health problems, @MsShade writes.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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SinĂ©ad O’Connor’s estate issued a missive to Trump, demanding that he never again use her music after he featured her breakout hit, a cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” during rallies in Maryland and North Carolina over the weekend.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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Trump wants to hit you with a 70 percent tax hike. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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The Department of Justice wants former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to begin his prison sentence immediately.
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Liz Cheney, who lost the Wyoming Republican representative primary after four terms, has now backed Democratic candidates in two races: Tim Ryan in Ohio and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan.
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Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.
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As Trump keeps blasting “Border Czar Harris,” new data on plummeting border crossings badly undermines his lies and demagoguery—in more ways than you might think.
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Clarence Thomas has attended retreats at Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-men’s gathering in Northern California, for more than two decades as a guest of his longtime, increasingly problematic friend Harlan Crow, according to a new report from ProPublica.
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Trump is in full-blown meltdown mode, and it's all because Harris and Walz are doing what Democrats rarely do: hit back.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is often referred to as Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild, has recouped $17.5 billion worth of consumer money.
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A secretly recorded conversation with Roger Stone suggests that the Donald Trump adviser and confidant is implying that the judge in Trump’s classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, could be in the convicted felon and former president’s pocket.
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How Bill Gates has developed and wielded influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and under-appreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Alexander Zaitchik writes.
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Bill Ackman, the billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife, former MIT professor Neri Oxman, has a plagiarism problem arguably worse than Gay’s. He's not taking it well.
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Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.
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“The more he gets attacked the more he will talk about things he shouldn’t be talking about,” former Republican George Conway said about Trump. “I think you could even get him thrown into jail, by running the right ad,” he added. #StopTrump
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50 billionaire families have already injected almost a billion dollars into our political system—the overwhelming majority of it going to Republicans and in support of Donald Trump.
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This is not calling balls and strikes, people. This is monomaniacal, steroidal judicial activism. Alito and his cohort are not on the court to interpret law. They are on the court to change society.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has three flags hanging outside his office: the American flag, the Louisiana state flag, and a flag representing a movement that wants to turn the U.S. into a religious Christian nation.
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