Today: "Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State" Plus, Trump seems to be trying to give us all cancer; Chicago’s neighborhood ICE resistance; The New Republic’s books of the year; and more...

Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they "alarmists," and how did "anti-alarmism" become cool?

By Toby Buckle

To complement The New Republic’s January/February 2026 issue, "This Is Not America," our writers discuss Trump’s immigration policy and how communities are resisting, from refugees defying the administration’s orders to protests against ICE raids and the National Guard’s deployment in U.S. cities.

A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics dissected, debated, and most admired this year.

By The New Republic Staff

Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.

By Melissa Gira Grant

By Felipe De La Hoz

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

By Virginia Heffernan

The administration’s commitment to spreading the fatal disease is impressive.

By Liza Featherstone

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

By Greg Sargent

Join a special group of readers and supporters on a lovingly designed, all-inclusive tour of one of the most spellbinding places in the world. Drawing on The New Republic’s special contacts among local historians, artists, and chefs, we’ve created a first-class experience that will immerse you in Cuba’s colorful and unique history, politics, and culture.

By Phillip Maciak

Vince Gilligan’s new show imagines a world devoid of any kind of aesthetic experience that isn’t blandly generalizable.

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President Trump struggled to stay awake while discussing his order reclassifying marijuana.

By Hafiz Rashid

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