A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting | The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is. |
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| Maybe it’s not so mysterious after all: A blockbuster new report reveals that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly took $80,000 in dark-money political donations for herself. |
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| Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now? |
| Has there ever been a budget bill more mendacious than Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill? |
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{{/if}} | Quietly accepting the president’s false narrative will not prevent more war. It will only further normalize unauthorized strikes and legitimize the deceit used to justify them. |
| The conservative justices’ ruling in a case involving LGBTQ-themed books in public schools is likely to benefit larger religious groups and ostracize smaller ones. |
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| Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich. |
| He has a certain quality that’s far too rare among elected Democrats. |
| It’s a historic moment, alright—just not in the way the Republicans believe. |
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| To count to one million without stopping takes 11 days. To count to one billion takes nearly 32 years. To count Elon Musk’s fortune would take more than 13,000 years. Who needs that much money? |
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