Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week
Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week | An Arizona Democratic congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that? |
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RSVP Now: Resisting the Authoritarian Takeover |
| On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C. With the new administration in place, this event will bring together influential political commentators with TNR’s most engaged readers to explore what we can do to fight back against Trump’s antidemocratic rampage. |
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| The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin. |
| Large numbers of people currently get their information from nontraditional media sources. The information they’re getting about climate change isn’t very good. |
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Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. |
Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it. Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness? |
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| If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability. |
| Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well. |
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| The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now. |
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| Blame Hollywood’s "unwokening" and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks. |
| Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye. |
| Two Dylan films—one very popular, the other quite obscure—stand out from the rest. |
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| On April 29, Norm Eisen and Jen Rubin of The Contrarian and Michael Tomasky of The New Republic will convene leading political, legal, and media minds for a major livestreamed event—assessing the authoritarian onslaught of Trump’s first 100 days. |
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