This week: "Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco" Plus, John Roberts and the cynical cult of Federalist No. 70; the unfolding MAGA battle over Turning Point USA; the real reason Democrats lost in 2024; and more ...

It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.

By Monica Potts

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.

Republicans are looking to the justices to remove a key campaign finance restriction. Most of the court’s right-wing majority doesn’t seem to want to play along.

By Matt Ford

The unfolding MAGA battle over Turning Point USA is chilling, disgusting—and a lot of fun to watch.

By Virginia Heffernan

By Edith Olmsted

By Edith Olmsted

By Edith Olmsted

ICE Barbie may be on the way out. But don’t breathe a sigh of relief. In Trumpworld, things can always get worse—and usually do.

By Michael Tomasky

A bill that would ban Americans from having citizen rights abroad is about nationalist sentimentalism, not real-life issues.

By Alaric DeArment

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Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

By Greg Sargent

Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.

By Matt Ford

Why does he care? He doesn’t even read!

By Timothy Noah

By Greg Sargent

In case you needed further proof that President Trump’s case for his boat bombings is a steaming pile of horse-bleep, he just helpfully provided reams of additional evidence in a new interview with Politico. In so doing, Trump also handed Democrats a new weapon to hound Republicans mercilessly if they fail to exercise oversight over these ongoing crimes—oversight that must go all the way to the top.

Remarkably, in this interview, Trump revealed that his pardon of Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez for his drug-trafficking conviction—in a U.S. court—is almost comically ill predicated. This came when Politico’s Dasha Burns pointed out that Hernandez’s pardon casts doubt on Trump’s commitment to combating drug trafficking—the stated grounds for his boat bombings.

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