Plus, Trump boat bombings worsen as new horror shakes experts; a legal battle between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the president; Larry and David Ellison are building a pro-Trump media behemoth; and more ...
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
Remember the Southern Command admiral who resigned two weeks ago? Hill Republicans haven’t heard from him—and they don’t apparently want to.
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Following up on TNR’s last conversation around our September issue, join The New Republic and David Blight, Yale University’s Sterling Professor of History, as he asks fellow academics: How must we fight to preserve our history and democracy?
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A legal battle between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the president will decide whether the president’s autocratic use of the National Guard is above board.
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Her book tour has been a train wreck. You can’t just brush off legit tough questions by asserting your identities. There’s a broader lesson here for Democrats.
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A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
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The president is worried that his tariffs case before the court has big holes. Canadian officials have confirmed those fears are well founded.
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As Trump’s rant about his cognitive test accidentally reveals his unfitness, a critic of political media explains how the press fails to connect his mental decline to the real-world horrors he’s visiting on people daily. Read the transcript here.
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
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Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
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Trump’s bulldozing rampage isn’t what Abundance liberals had in mind, but they should have seen it coming.
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For decades, Democrats have abided by norms Republicans systematically discarded. They have no choice now but to fight back with all the resources they can marshal.
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With the president’s blessing, the Ellisons’ Skydance merged with Paramount, gaining control of CBS News. Now the new giant might gobble up Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes CNN.
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As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, it’s often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administration—and other Democratic leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution and respect for parliamentary safeguards and procedures to hobble ambition, frustrating voters and making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance as our civic cure-all.
This reading has now picked up the endorsement of a surprising group: a large bloc of former high-level members of the Biden administration.
The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesday—with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agencies—that seeks to diagnose the administration’s governing mistakes and failures. The report, provided in advance to The New Republic, may be the most ambitious effort involving Biden officials to determine what went wrong and why.
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In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future of medical research?
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