Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week
Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week | Republican lawmakers have Texan children’s blood on their hands. Democrats shouldn’t let anyone forget it. |
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| The Justice Department is looking at criminal charges against local election officials who don’t “safeguard” their systems. And yes, it’s as bad as it sounds. |
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| Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader. |
| The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities—and their profession. |
| The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump. |
| The president promised to take on the corrupt elites. Now his MAGA faithful are starting to wonder if he’s no different. |
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| The first term was historically corrupt. But this time Trump has grabbed billions already—and by the time he’s done, he may make off with tens of billions. |
| The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else. There is an obvious cure for their unearned sense of entitlement. |
| Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers, but pay no attention as we dismantle the traditions and institutions that Jews value. |
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| Joe Tacopina was “disgusting.” Alina Habba, “deliciously arrogant.” Plus, what she’ll do with all that money—if Trump ever pays it. |
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