Meet TNR editor Chris Lehmann

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The New Republic was founded more than a century ago to bring American liberalism into the modern era. The magazine’s founders understood that the challenges of a multicultural, industrial-age democracy required bold new thinking about the American nation’s character and destiny—and brought that mindset to bear on a whole host of emerging controversies, from the need for robust antitrust legislation to thoroughgoing social-democratic political reform. In many ways, today’s New Republic is wrestling with the same fundamental questions: building a more inclusive and (small-d) democratic civil society from the ground up; reimagining a fairer American political economy in an age of rampaging inequality; and reviving an expansive public sphere after a generation of ideological assault from the right. There are also, to be, challenges that belong entirely to our own age, from the existential crisis of climate change to a Republican Party now hell-bent on subverting democratic governance in the name of permanent minority rule. But we’re determined to continue building on the magazine’s founding mission—and in spite of the daunting challenges ahead, we share its boundless faith in the American liberal experiment.

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