Today: "The New Republic’s Books of the Year" Plus, the self-delusions of Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto; in Pluribus, groupthink spells the end of art; Ruth Asawa connected everything; and more...
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Her memoir frequently shows an indifference toward truth, falsity, and meaning. In that way, it’s an artifact of our age.
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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.
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Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.
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Vince Gilligan’s new show imagines a world devoid of any kind of aesthetic experience that isn’t blandly generalizable.
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The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.
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A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
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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.
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The conservative radio host’s new AI chatbot is part of a broader push to create right-wing alternatives to "biased" AI. The pattern should concern everyone.
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North Carolina is more than happy to wage this pathetic war.
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University of Pennsylvania media scholar Victor Pickard explains why a robust system of public media is essential to strengthening American democracy. Read the transcript here.
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By Right Now With Perry Bacon
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By The New Republic Staff
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Some of the books we chose this year touched familiarly big themes: the place of the United States in the Americas; the weakness of democracy in the U.S. and what it would take to shore it up. And some are close-up, intimate studies of the subtlest changes in the relationships between just three people, as in Katie Kitamura’s Audition. What they all share is intellectual ambition and precision. These are books that contemplate motherhood in the digital age and motherhood amid grief, the machinations of private equity and the strange deterioration of the internet, the legacy of the 2000s and the future of
democracy. Our critics didn’t always agree with the arguments of some of books below but found all of them worth arguing, and thinking, with.
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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?
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