A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting | He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story. |
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RSVP Now: Resisting the Authoritarian Takeover |
| On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C. With the new administration in place, this event will bring together influential political commentators with TNR’s most engaged readers to explore what we can do to fight back against Trump’s antidemocratic rampage. |
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| Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well. |
| The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin. |
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| The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now. |
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| His campaign promises, from peace in Ukraine to "beautiful" tariffs, were truly unbelievable. And yet, somehow, many people believed him. |
| The president is going to fire the Federal Reserve chairman—and the Supreme Court is going to let him. |
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Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. |
Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it. Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness? |
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| That’s precisely why the accusations are getting wilder. |
| Many rejoiced when Musk said he’d pull back from the Department of Government Efficiency. But the world’s richest person will continue to wield oligarchic influence over our politics, and therefore our lives. |
| What began as Trump’s mass deportation scheme has spiraled into a campaign of intimidation against citizens lawfully using their rights. |
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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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| For real. The podcast by Ben Meiselas and his brothers regularly outdraws Joe Rogan’s. Their secret weapon? Reason. Imagine! |
| An Arizona Democratic congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that? |
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| The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now. |
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