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Empowerment for What?
Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher: I’ve known that rhyme for as long as I can remember. I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight when my mother explained to me that when she was my age, all children...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Attack of the Killer Zombies!!
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 ArticleJoe Biden Says Trump Is an Aberration. He’s Wrong.
In his campaign launch video, Joe Biden echoed a refrain common among establishment Democrats, retiring Republicans, and legacy media pundits since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. The story...
View ArticleBrexit Could Be Turning the Tide for Scottish Independence
Meet the other group of secession-minded nationalists in Britain: A few hundred miles north of where the details of Brexit continue to be debated, members of the Scottish National Party met in...
View ArticleThe RBG Election
With Joe Biden’s entry into the Democratic presidential race last week, there are now at least 20 candidates vying to challenge President Donald Trump next November. They run a wide gamut of...
View ArticleFor 2020 Democrats, It Should Still Be the Economy
Last week, President Donald Trump, in the midst of a Twitter meltdown that was grandiloquent even by his standards—50 tweets in 24 hours—made the case that the news media was missing the biggest story...
View ArticleOlivier Assayas’s Quest for Originality
“Typical of French cinema,” a journalist smirks, describing the work of a director he sees as a soggy, pretentious remnant of the New Wave. “Cinema about your nombril”—your navel—“only to please...
View ArticleMantras
So what if I’m not loved.How dumb to be the moon. The Earth isn’t even the center of the solar system. I am sick of their whispering. I had my own crying corner as a boy. I still have it.The Asian man...
View ArticleI Bride, I Mother, I Pierce Through the Casket
In the underbelly I’ve rot for forestI’ve rocks for waste—& when I venturepast the terracotta pots for homes squattingon their little plots their aches, past brick& schools where my living...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Cynical Strategy to Win the Jewish Vote
On Saturday, shortly after 10 a.m. on the West Coast, someone purporting to be John Earnest posted an anti-Semitic manifesto on the website 8chan, which defines itself as “the Darkest Reaches of the...
View ArticleBeto O’Rourke Won’t Demonize the Fossil Fuel Industry
Beto O’Rourke released the first significant policy proposal of his presidential campaign on Monday. “Climate change is the greatest threat we face—one which will test our country, our democracy, and...
View ArticleDemocrats Have Created an “Electability” Monster
Senator Kamala Harris was supposed to be a frontrunner. According to the rules of “the invisible primary,” in which donors and party activists coalesce around their chosen nominees, sending signals...
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Werner Herzog’s Ode to Gorbachev
Werner Herzog is in love. His eyes glimmer, his smile is unforced, and his much-parodied Teutonic drone cannot conceal his affection for his subject, the ailing 87-year-old man who once ruled the...
View ArticleThe Venezuela Coup’s Risky Dependence on Foreign Opinion
The Hawthorne effect refers to the tendency of individuals to behave differently when they know they’re being observed. It’s on prominent display right now in Venezuela. On April 30, National Assembly...
View ArticleSky High Is the Only Good Superhero Movie
Today at my local United Artists megaplex there are 45 total film screenings. Thirty of those screenings are superhero movies, 24 of them Avengers alone. But even without the biggest piece of content...
View ArticleCruel or Not, the Death Penalty Is Definitely Unusual
It came as no surprise when a Georgia jury sentenced Tiffany Moss to death on Tuesday. After three hours of deliberation, Gwinnett County jurors previously found the 36-year-old woman guilty of...
View ArticleAmerica Needs to Hear From Robert Mueller
Attorney General Bill Barr is doing the job that President Donald Trump appointed him to do, even if it’s not the job that’s in the public’s best interest. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 488-page...
View ArticleTrump’s Possibly Illegal Border Posse
Twelve days before the November 2018 midterm elections, the President of the United States ordered active-duty military forces to assist in immigration enforcement on the Southern border for the first...
View ArticleDemocrats Can Win on Immigration
We already know the kind of campaign Donald Trump will run in 2020. Sure, there will be improvisational flourishes based on who ultimately prevails from the Democrat’s battle royal—stale riffs on Joe...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Women a Bigger Force in Indian Elections?
It is the largest election in the world, with 900 million registered voters. Initiated on April 11, India’s national elections will continue until May 23. And for the first time, pollsters suggest that...
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