The New Republic

The New Republic is a liberal magazine from the United States that focuses on commentary about politics and the arts. It has been in publication since 1914 and has significantly shaped American thoughts on politics and culture. Established by key figures of the Progressive Movement, the magazine aimed to strike a balance between a progressive approach rooted in humanitarian values and moral urgency, while also relying on scientific insights to address social issues. It advocated for the U.S. involvement in World War One but later grew skeptical about the effectiveness of scientific liberalism. In the years following the 1980s, it began to incorporate some conservative viewpoints. In 2014, after a change in ownership and a tumultuous period that led to the departure of many editors and writers, the magazine briefly halted publication.

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Trump Has Big Mideast Goals, and He Knows the Obstacle Is Netanyahu

20 hours ago | newrepublic.com | Yousef Munayyer

As President Donald Trump visits the Middle East on his first major foreign trip of his second term, there is one country he isn’t scheduled to visit that might come as a surprise: Israel. With planned presidential stops in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and possibly Turkey, it seems that Israel, one of the few places in the world where Trump is seen favorably, is not on the schedule. The reason?
Even White Afrikaners Think Trump’s “Refugee” Plan Is Dumb

1 day ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

Donald Trump is paving the way for white South African “refugees” to come to the United States, but they’re not all that interested in taking him up on his offer, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The U.S. president falsely claimed Monday that Afrikaners, the white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are facing a “genocide” in their home country. So then why don’t they actually want to leave?
Here’s How Much Trump’s “Free” Qatar Private Jet Will Cost Americans

1 day ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

There’s no such thing as a free plane. Donald Trump has claimed that he is receiving a “free, very expensive plane” from the Qatari royal family—but while it may be free to him, it will be very expensive to the American taxpayer, according to Politico. The Qatari Defense Ministry is currently considering transferring a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to replace Air Force One, which would be one of the largest gifts from a foreign government to a U.S. president ever.
Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides Is an Epic of Loss and Perseverance

1 day ago | newrepublic.com | Adam Nayman

Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s cinema—not only tough, fine, and vital, but slippery, sophisticated, and ambitious, matching form to function and reach to grasp—measures up.
Cognitive Decline? Trump Fumbles Basic Math in Own Drug Prices Order

2 days ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

Does Donald Trump know the details of his own executive order to reduce the price of pharmaceuticals? During an address from the White House Monday morning, the president stumbled over the terms of his latest executive order, which set a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to negotiate lower prices in the U.S.“Drug prices will come down by, much more really if you think—59, if you think of sometimes a drug that is 10 times more expensive, it’s much more than the 59 percent.
Trump Bizarrely Tries to Take Credit for the New Pope

2 days ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the selection of the first American pope—who doesn’t seem to like him all that much. In a post on Truth Social Sunday, the president claimed that ABC News’s chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz had suggested that he’d had absolutely nothing to do with the selection of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to be the next leader of the Catholic church.
Trump Melts Down Over Damning Report on Qatar Giving Him a Private Jet

2 days ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

Donald Trump is trying desperately to defend receiving a $400 million luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. In an angry post on Truth Social Sunday night, Trump claimed that he’d done nothing wrong by agreeing to take a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the Qatari royal family to replace Air Force One.
Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program-and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters

4 days ago | newrepublic.com | Greg Sargent

The other day, during his intensive daily reading of complex policy papers, President Donald Trump noticed that a government initiative created by his predecessor had the word “equity” in its title. Naturally, this caught his attention. As he appeared to conclude, this could only mean the initiative was designed to help undeserving minorities. Which presented Trump with a ripe opportunity to demagogue about supposed reverse racism against white people.
David Souter Changed Supreme Court Nominations Forever

5 days ago | newrepublic.com | Matt Ford

David Souter, who died on Thursday at age 85, was perhaps the most important Supreme Court justice of the late twentieth century. His appointment to the high court in 1990 was meant to cement the conservative legal counterrevolution, washing away the heady liberalism of the 1950s and 1960s in favor of right-wing constitutional theories. Nobody seemed to ask Souter if he was interested in such a role in American legal history, however, and when given the opportunity to play it, he declined. Roe v.
Trump Has Total Meltdown Over MSNBC Segment on How His Tariffs Suck

5 days ago | newrepublic.com | Malcolm Ferguson

A two-minute-long takedown of his trade policies on MSNBC sent the president into a rage on Friday. “Donald Trump is backed into a corner,” said MSNBC business host Stephanie Ruhle. “His grand plans of ‘tariffs, tariffs, tariffs,’ aren’t working.