The New Republic

The Dire National Crisis That Washington Won’t Touch

Adolescents and young adults across the country are collapsing under the weight of isolation and pressure to succeed. There’s no easy x—but it’s past time for Washington to do something.

Greetings From Javanka-bania

IN SEPTEMBER 2021, while yachting in the Mediterranean, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner found paradise. They stopped to refuel their yacht in the Albanian port city of Durrës, around an hour’s drive from the capital, Tirana. Edi Rama, Albania’s prime...

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT—AND THE LIBERAL MOUNT RUSHMORE!

How the Tech World Turned Evil

I. That Antichrist Nonsense, Explained TWENTY-SECOND-CENTURY HISTORIANS TRACING THE ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its...

WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT FOR?

Today’s Democrats could aspire just to return us to some pre-Trump “normal.” But for millions of Americans, that isn’t nearly good enough. The country needs a Democratic Party that seeks to create a new and far better “normal”—and that’s willing to...

The Book of Mormon Decency Toward Immigrants

In an increasingly xenophobic country—and in a state Trump won by over 20 points in 2024—Salt Lake’s benevolent attitude toward immigration is a strange anomaly. Can the city’s unusual political culture somehow show us the way forward?

The Great Communicator The Drone Age

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