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Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.  

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August 15, 2019
Alex Shephard
Stacey Abrams Is Smarter Than Tom Steyer
You can amass great influence and power building the infrastructure for lasting Democratic rule ... or you can run for president.
August 14, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Pretzel Logic of Trump’s Immigration Policy
His administration hides an old, racist message behind its new, "merit-based" immigration policy.
August 13, 2019
Alex Shephard
Right Wing Attacks on The Hunt Are a Bad Faith Distraction
At a moment when the president's racist rhetoric is motivating mass violence, Fox and all its friends saw a chance to stoke the culture wars.
July 19, 2019
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Pitch to Voters: Dream Small
Running as the inheritor of Obama's legacy, the former vice president offers a health care plan that lacks audacity and offers little hope.
July 18, 2019
Alex Shephard
It’s Not Strategy, It’s Racism
Pundits say Trump's tweets about "The Squad" are part of a master plan. They're wrong.
July 16, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Joe Biden hoped to guard his frontrunner status and stay above the 2020 campaign fray. Now he'll have to run to keep up with the pack.
July 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables
Thursday's "summit" shows the increasingly paranoid president is desperate for allies who back him unequivocally.
July 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Nancy Pelosi Has Power—She Just Doesn’t Want to Use It
The Speaker's feud with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals a great deal about her approach to leadership.
July 9, 2019
Alex Shephard
What Does Big Tech Want From Buttigieg?
The 2020 presidential candidate raised a mountain of money last quarter, and a lot of it came from Silicon Valley.
July 8, 2019
Alex Shephard
Democrats Should Attack the Trump Economy
Speaking to people left out of the current expansion won votes for the GOP in 2016; championing those who struggle today resonates even more.
July 5, 2019
Alex Shephard
Do Democrats Really Want To See Trump’s Tax Returns?
Representative Richard Neal has filed suit to enforce the House's right to IRS information—six months after gaining the power to do so.
July 2, 2019
Alex Shephard
How Old Is Too Old to Be President?
With three septuagenarian Democrats vying to take on the 73-year-old Trump, age is more than just a number.
July 1, 2019
Alex Shephard
What Kamala Harris Didn’t Say
From her role in a California prison labor debate to her prosecutions of sex workers, the 2020 presidential hopeful has a past of her own to defend.
June 28, 2019
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Big Night Belonged to Others
With a series of widely recognized stumbles in the Miami debate, did the former V.P. just become the former frontrunner?
June 28, 2019
Alex Shephard
Kamala Harris just took Joe Biden to school.
June 28, 2019
Alex Shephard
The debate moderators are addicted to right-wing talking points.
June 28, 2019
Alex Shephard
Will anyone be brave enough to try to take down Joe Biden?
June 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
Pelosi Bows to Conservatives on Border Funding
In the name of party unity, the Speaker again sells out the Progressive Caucus—and stiff-arms the Democratic base.
June 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
Julián Castro was the first debate’s big winner.
June 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
This debate is taking place on Earth 2.

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