Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week
Read The New Republic’s top five stories of the week Saturday January 18, 2024 |
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The tech billionaire believes Trump will help to reveal hidden truths—like how Jeffrey Epstein actually died. But beneath his conspiracism lies a very real, very dangerous political theory. |
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Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care. |
The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime. |
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{{/if}} The wealthy will ride out the crisis on private islands—or so the story goes. Instead, they’re sticking around, distorting housing and insurance markets. |
Their toxic fear of ideas is shaping the modern censorship movement. |
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The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man. |
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