Alex Shephard

2 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Alex Shephard

Just over a month ago, President Donald Trump was more popular than he was at any point in his first term. This was especially troubling because his administration was proving to be even more incompetent, corrupt, and authoritarian this time around. He was busy gutting the civil service, defying judicial orders, and creating migrant concentration camps abroad—but Americans didn’t seem to mind.

2 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Alex Shephard

Elon Musk is finally leaving Washington, or so we’re told. Speaking to panicked Tesla investors on Tuesday, the electric-car company’s CEO said the magic words that they—and countless millions across the country—have been wanting to hear for months.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Alex Shephard

Elon Musk is finally leaving Washington, or so we’re told. Speaking to panicked Tesla investors on Tuesday, the electric car company’s CEO said the magic words that they—and countless millions across the country—have been wanting to hear for months.

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Alex Shephard

Sometime in the next year, the United States will almost certainly slide into a recession, if not something altogether worse. Last week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that “there isn’t a modern experience of how to think about” the current economic situation: an unprecedented trade war, anemic growth, rising unemployment, and ballooning inflation—a recipe for potentially catastrophic stagnation.

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Alex Shephard

Six months ago, voters in rural Lee County, Iowa, voted for Donald Trump by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. But on Tuesday, residents filled Senator Chuck Grassley’s town hall there with heckles and jeers. “If I get a court order to pay $1,200 can I ignore it like Trump ignored the Supreme Court?” one attendee asked Grassley, referring to the administration’s defiance of the court’s order to “facilitate” the return of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, mistakenly deported to an El Salvadoran gulag.