Victory Does Not Depend on Swing Voters
Nothing captures the imagination of the political press like the all-important, quasi-talismanic “swing voter.” And so, with the 2020 presidential election now a mere 18 months away, the electorate is...
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Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
What is Democratic Socialism? I read considerable talk about “the democratic” as applying to the process of getting socialism; damn little about it as an adjective applying to socialism when you get...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Worst Finale Ever?
Each Monday, members of The New Republic staff will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones, now in its eight and final season. Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Plan to Save Abortion Rights Is Full of Asterisks
When Alabama last week passed an outright abortion ban, with no exceptions for rape or incest, it drove home a frightening reality: The Republican Party, if given enough power, will fully rob women of...
View ArticleWho Actually Wants War Criminals Pardoned?
On first glance, it’s hard to see who would support pardons for these men.Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was reported to his commanders by seven of the Navy SEALs who served under him in Iraq,...
View ArticleMake Corporate America Pay for Underpaying Women
In 1980, women in America made 60 cents for every dollar men earned. By 2001, it had climbed to 76 cents. At that pace, women’s wages today should be around 90 percent of men’s. Instead, they’ve barely...
View ArticleSocialism in No Country
In her illuminating essay “The Revolutionary Tradition and its Lost Treasure”—itself a lost treasure, as so few people who consider themselves within the Western revolutionary tradition ever read or...
View ArticleFans Are Ruining Game of Thrones—And Everything Else
It was bound to end this way. Given its colossal success, cultural saturation, and the impossible expectations that come from being “event television,” the Game of Thrones finale was always going to be...
View ArticleWhy Milkshaking Works
The biggest topic in British political circles on Monday wasn’t the country’s impending departure from the European Union. It was milkshakes—or, rather, one milkshake in particular that was lobbed by a...
View ArticleCorporate America Is Terrified of the Green New Deal
There is a “major shift” afoot in corporate America on climate change, according to Axios. On Monday, energy reporter Amy Harder reported that major companies “across virtually all sectors of the...
View ArticleIs Trump DOA in the Rust Belt?
If you’re the betting sort, maybe bet on the 2020 election being decided in the Rust Belt. It was there, in 2016, when the Democrats’ fabled “blue wall”—Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—crumbled,...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel’s Deficit of Self-Awareness
Rahm Emanuel has identified an alarming problem in American politics. He may as well have found it by staring into a mirror.The explanation for President Donald Trump’s dismaying rise, he argues in The...
View ArticleImpeachment Is Coming
Over the weekend, Justin Amash, a young, libertarian-leaning, Michigan Republican who represents Grand Rapids and its suburbs, did what Democratic leaders have declined to do for the past two years: He...
View ArticleA Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
The House Judiciary Committee convened on Tuesday without its star witness. Don McGahn, the former White House counsel and a key witness in the Mueller report, refused to appear after President Trump...
View ArticleWar With Iran Would Benefit the Emirates, Not the U.S.
Saudi Arabia and its new Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman enjoyed a short time in the Washington sun. Bin Salman was introduced through Thomas Friedman articles and 60 Minutes specials as a visionary...
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Gregor Von Rezzori’s Vast Postwar Masterpiece
If you put a gun to my head and asked me to describe Gregor von Rezzori’s Abel and Cain in three sentences, this is what I would answer: Murder. Murder. Murder. First-, second-, and third-degree:...
View ArticleCory Booker Was Once a Foot Soldier for Betsy DeVos
Cory Booker had expected 10,000 people to turn out for the rally in downtown Newark that launched his presidential campaign, but on April 13, against a huge American flag draped across a building high...
View ArticleDear Millennial-Haters: Let’s Talk
The center-right commentators of this world are few, but they have made a big fuss about hating this country’s youth. The young people, they say, see “privilege” wherever there is individual merit....
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Will the Radical Right Break the EU?
On June 24, 2016, at the headquarters of the National Front in Nanterre, France, Marine Le Pen hosted an impromptu press conference to celebrate the result of Britain’s referendum on EU membership....
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Live Under an Abortion Ban
The passage of last week’s highly restrictive bill banning almost all abortions in Alabama sparked strong reactions in the United States. It also, however, resonated abroad, and particularly in the...
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