Ken Paxton Defends One-Day Plea Deal Offered to Child Sex Predator
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson·10d ago
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton seems to think that letting a child predator out of jail after just two months is something to brag about.
Republicans Silent as Trump Cuts Nearly $1 Billion Passed by Congress
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·10d ago
President Trump’s move last week to cancel close to $1 billion of funds already appropriated by Congress is getting zero pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Samuel Alito Does the Right Thing for a Change
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling·10d ago
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a major climate change case coming up on the court’s docket.
Mike Johnson Dismisses Public Opinion on Data Centers as a “Psyop”
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted·10d ago
House Speaker Mike Johnson cares so little about Americans that he’s pretending that public opinion is really the result of brainwashing by the Chinese government.
Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling·10d ago
For all their browbeating about election fraud, it turns out that Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes aren’t following election laws.
Texas GOP Candidate Has Long History of Calling for Public Executions
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·10d ago
A Republican candidate for statewide office in Texas regularly called for public executions in social media posts that he has since deleted.
Trump Says We Have the “Best Poverty Numbers.” What?
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling·10d ago
America has the “best poverty numbers,” according to our billionaire president. “We have the best, I guess you could say poverty, they talk poverty.
Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The New Republicby Malcolm Ferguson·10d ago
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of...
This Is a Crucial Week in the Fight Against Trump’s Assault on the Law
The New Republicby Harry Litman·10d ago
On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear arguments in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a federal judge ordered two planeloads of Venezuelan men returned to the United...
John Fetterman Mistakenly Calls Himself a “Lifelong Republican”
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·10d ago
Senator John Fetterman seemed to forget where he stands politically over the weekend. At the Texas Tribune Festival Saturday, the Pennsylvania Democrat was asked why he wouldn’t become an...
Trump Team Scrambles to Backpedal on Slip About Arms Sale to China
The New Republicby Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling·10d ago
Selling weapons to China is suddenly off the table. It’s unclear how it got on the table in the first place. U.S.
Todd Blanche Crashes Out About Media Ban After Trump Bars CNN Again
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted·10d ago
Attorney General Todd Blanche crashed and burned while trying to defend President Donald Trump’s ever-increasing restrictions on the press.
Iran Issues Terrifying Threat After Trump Blows Up Another Peace Deal
The New Republicby Hafiz Rashid·10d ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that his country is “fully prepared for the war to be resumed” following President Trump’s threats to “annihilate” Iran during his U.N.
“He Can’t Be Trusted”: Trump’s Most Loyal Front-Row Fans Turn on Him
The New Republicby Edith Olmsted·10d ago
What does it say that President Donald Trump’s biggest fans are starting to abandon him? Fractures have begun to form among the Front Row Joes, a group of steadfast Trump supporters that devote...
Transcript: Trump Rage over Failing Press Ban Erupts in Epic Self-Own
The New Republicby The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent·10d ago
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
The Next Front in Trump’s War Against Immigrants
The New Republicby Felipe De La Hoz·10d ago
In the Trump administration’s avalanche of immigration animosity, it can be hard to miss some of the more technical changes to immigration policy, buried as they are in the broader news of masked...
Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
The New Republicby Kate Aronoff·10d ago
Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down? Elementary school students fresh off an Earth Day lesson would probably suggest saving the tree.
The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
The New Republicby Michael Tomasky·10d ago
About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up.
The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury
The New Republicby Scott Bradfield·10d ago
Across the last half-century or so, Doonesbury has been one of those rare institutions that could always be counted on—even while the political world it described seemed to be run by people who...
The Worst Possible Way to End the Trump Era
The New Republicby Jason Linkins·11d ago
One of my many cataloged memories of the Trump era is from the run-up to the 2016 election, when one of my colleagues related to me what one of his sources in Brazil, fretful about Donald Trump’s...
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