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The Right-Wing Campaign to Bring Back Gender Segregation in Schools

The people who brought you “Project 2025” sure seem to be ramping up an attack on equality in higher ed.

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Sorry, but You Had to Be an Idiot to Believe Trump Could Lower Prices

The president’s disastrous affordability rally merely reraises the question: How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?

Dec 12 • The New Republic and Michael Tomasky

Cowardly Pete Hegseth Is This Week’s Proof of the GOP’s Moral Rot

Of course defense secretary is a disaster. But everyone knew back in January that he would be. That’s where the real problem lies.

Dec 5 • Michael Tomasky and The New Republic

President Wants Legislators Hanged, and It’s Not Even the Lead Story

Donald Trump says he’d like to see lawmakers tried and executed, and The New York Times and The Washington Post just don’t seem to think it’s that big a…

Nov 21 • The New Republic and Michael Tomasky

The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein

LBJ used to have a bourbon with stubborn members of Congress. Trump locks them in the Situation Room.

Nov 14 • The New Republic and Michael Tomasky

The Quicksand Pits That Await Zohran Mamdani—and How He Can Avoid Them

It’s not socialism or Israel that could bring the mayor-elect down. It’s corruption scandals. Competent, honest appointments are key to his success.

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The Trump administration now has a veto over the Tiffany Network’s newsroom.

Dec 26 • The New Republic and Parker Molloy

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When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.

Dec 25

The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation

Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation.

Dec 24 • The New Republic and Timothy Noah

What a Real DNC “Autopsy” of the 2024 Election Would Say | Right Now With Perry Bacon

Watch now (39 mins) | In today's episode, Perry chats with TNR's Monica Potts.

Dec 22 • The New Republic, Monica Potts, and Perry Bacon Jr

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The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification

As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it…

Dec 21 • The New Republic

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned

Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and…

Dec 20 • The New Republic and Toby Buckle

The Trump Judge Who Tried to Rewrite the Bill of Rights

Trump appointee Amul Thapar unleashed an appalling judicial broadside against the constitutional rights of noncitizens that amounts to a wholesale…

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