A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting The party can use the upcoming confirmation hearings to start to restore its class identity. |
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It’s the hot new thing on the right: dressing up in the trappings of Christianity without being burdened by all the fussy moral obligations of the faith. |
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Billy Long, an anti-tax huckster who doesn’t think the IRS should exist, makes his living promising to cut your tax bill 40 percent. |
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{{/if}} One of Trump’s central campaign claims was that green energy and immigration pose a massive threat to American workers. But now it seems local Republicans think otherwise. |
Trump’s pick to run the FBI has already made it known who he plans to persecute if he gets confirmed. |
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Revisit this conversation with The New Republic’s senior editor Alex Shephard, literary editor Laura Marsh, and contributing editor Osita Nwanevu, as well as n+1’s publisher, Mark Krotov, about the state of culture during Trump’s first term and what the next four years will hold for books and the arts in his second. |
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The returning administration is full of free speech warriors—the kind that crush dissent and dissenters. |
The high court appeared ready to deal a savage blow to the rights and livelihoods of a group that conservatives have spent the year targeting. |
Incredibly, it’s still legal to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. The Labor Department just moved to end the practice—daring Trump to undo it. |
Trump’s vengeance-minded administration will have no blunter instrument than a corrupted Department of Justice. |
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