A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting | His inner circle is telling him that working-class voters are with him. In the real world, all the tariff chaos gives Democrats an opening to try to crack his vaunted coalition. |
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| The president isn’t governing as if he wants to be popular, but he’s getting help sweeping his wreckage under the rug. |
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| This isn’t trade strategy. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy. |
| Here’s how newspapers across America minimized one of the largest demonstrations since Trump’s return to power. |
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| On April 29, Norm Eisen and Jen Rubin of The Contrarian and Michael Tomasky of The New Republic will convene leading political, legal, and media minds for a major livestreamed event—assessing the authoritarian onslaught of Trump’s first 100 days. |
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| There’s no other explanation for the market fluctuations caused by Trump’s tariffs, which should have come as no surprise to anyone in the financial industry. |
| This NEH grantee was told the "immediate termination" of her grant "is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government." Is this America? |
| By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |
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Trump’s Power Grab Has Begun. Help Us Expose It. |
Trump is breaking laws, purging watchdogs, and fast-tracking Project 2025—a plan to seize control and silence dissent. We’re following every move, but we need your support to keep going. This fight depends on people like you stepping up. Will you help us hold the line? |
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| The sunny take on the high court's recent ruling on the Alien Enemies Act was that it was a victory for due process. But for migrants, the real world looks very different than the justices' blinkered view. |
| His directive to the Justice Department to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, whose only crimes were telling the truth, is a frontal assault on the rule of law. |
| Meet the man who’s displaced Elon Musk as the most loathed member of Trump’s inner circle. |
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| Political, cultural, and economic figures might be too scared to stand up to the president. Millions of Americans are not. |
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