You are using an
outdated
browser.
Please
upgrade your browser
and improve your visit to our site.
Skip Navigation
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
GAMES
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
GAMES
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
Culture
June 14, 2024
Kaila Philo
The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture
Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.
June 11, 2024
Eric Herschthal
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.
June 7, 2024
Emma Copley Eisenberg
The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?
June 6, 2024
Mike Duncan
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.
May 31, 2024
Michael Friedrich
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City
The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?
May 29, 2024
Phillip Maciak
The Failed Promise of Binge TV
When streamers “dump” whole seasons instead of releasing weekly, they strip away some of TV’s most reliable pleasures.
May 28, 2024
Magazine
Ian Beacock
Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head
How a spoof conspiracy theory became a perfect study of how misinformation spreads
May 23, 2024
John Semley
Hit Man
Is a Funny, Troubling Drama of Mistaken Identity
The neo-noir starring Glen Powell is a departure for Richard Linklater.
May 22, 2024
Audra J. Wolfe
What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?
When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.
May 21, 2024
Magazine
Raina Lipsitz
The Looting of Venezuela
How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted corporate profits
May 14, 2024
Jacob Bacharach
How Salman Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack
His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.
May 13, 2024
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
The Sympathizer
Is a Spy Thriller of Rare Sophistication
Park Chan-wook’s new miniseries on HBO takes American imperialism to task.
May 10, 2024
Magazine
Udi Greenberg
The Abuses of Prehistory
Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.
May 8, 2024
Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
May 6, 2024
Magazine
Anna Louie Sussman
The Climate Crisis Is Already Transforming the Family
Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.
May 3, 2024
Ben Metzner
Can You Be Anti-Zionist but Pro-Israel?
The Jewish studies professor Shaul Magid thinks it’s possible to resist Zionism without rejecting the state. He calls this “counter-Zionism.”
May 3, 2024
Magazine
Adam Nayman
The Unsettling Eco-Horror of
Evil Does Not Exist
In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new movie, an isolated community faces an existential threat and the fragility of its own defense mechanisms.
May 2, 2024
Magazine
Julian E. Zelizer
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
May 1, 2024
Stephanie Gorton
The Power of the Single-Parent Family
Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status.
April 29, 2024
Magazine
Jeremy Lybarger
Keith Haring and the Art of Being Everywhere
Three decades since his death, Haring’s writhing images are as popular as ever. That was always the point.
Our Writers
Kate Aronoff
Climate & Energy
Matt Ford
Law & The Courts
Melissa Gira Grant
LGBTQ Rights
Jason Linkins
Power & Plutocracy
Timothy Noah
Politics & Economy
Malcolm Ferguson
Breaking News
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Breaking News
Edith Olmsted
Breaking News
Hafiz Rashid
Breaking News
Greg Sargent
Politics & Democracy
Grace Segers
Congress & Elections
Alex Shephard
Politics & Media
Heather Souvaine Horn
Climate Change
Michael Tomasky
Politics & Ideas
About
The New Republic
’s history
3
4
5
6
7