The New Republic

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost it Thursday when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins quoted President Trump’s own statements on the economy and Christmas.“If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, then why is he telling parents two…

Want to visit the United States? Customs and Border Patrol will make you submit your social media history—and your family history and DNA too. In an 11-page notice published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, CBP outlined several proposed changes to the…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly ended her time before the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday, angering lawmakers by stepping away from the hot seat to attend a highly anticipated meeting on the future of FEMA. Except that meeting never…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem didn’t deny that the Trump administration was illegally deporting people with ongoing asylum cases. Noem spiraled out during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, after Representative Dan Goldman…

Health care bills are going to skyrocket next year after the Senate voted down a bill that would have extended subsidies for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to…

Yet another musician has joined the choir of voices refuting the White House’s latest string of ICE advertisements.SZA torched the Trump administration for using her music in a pro-ICE ad, claiming that the blatant intellectual property theft was really just…

The FBI’s branch and operations director couldn’t answer basic questions about the Trump administration’s designation of antifa as a terrorist organization at a congressional hearing Thursday. Michael Glasheen was testifying before the House Committee on…

Homeland Security Secretary and MAGA hardliner Kristi Noem got a fact-check to her face during her Thursday morning House hearing when Democratic Representative Seth Magaziner brought in a special guest.“How many United States military veterans have you…

The Trump administration is refusing to face the facts that they are the ones responsible for the suspected national guard shooter’s presence in the country.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was grilled during a House Homeland Security Committee…

A federal judge slammed Justice Department lawyers Thursday for blatantly lying about their efforts to remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador last spring—and she ordered the government to release him.In a 31-page opinion,…

The Trump administration might be exaggerating their employment figures, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday. In a press conference, Powell said that staffers at the Fed think that the government could be overestimating the number of jobs…

Venezuela has condemned the Trump administration’s Wednesday seizure of an oil tanker, calling it an “act of piracy.” Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the tanker of illegally sending oil to terrorist groups, justifying the administration’s hostile…

Andrew Tate, the self-avowed misogynist and accused sex trafficker with a massive online following, has a powerful ally in the White House: Barron Trump.The college-aged Trump has been building a steady bromance with the woman-beating influencer since at least…

After her husband died in 1996, Brunnie Lebron—now age 71—picked up her two daughters and moved into the third floor of a prewar building near West Harlem, right off St. Nicholas Avenue. The rent-stabilized building always had its problems, she said, but…

House Republicans have voted to punish Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for not releasing footage of the Pentagon’s extrajudicial executions of alleged drug traffickers. The GOP-led House on Wednesday passed an enormous annual defense policy bill that included…

Even the Justice Department lawyer who defended the George W. Bush administration’s decisions to waterboard, bind, and sleep-deprive prisoners in the infamous 9/11 “Torture Memos” of 2002 thinks the Trump administration’s drug boat strikes are going…

Senate Democrats, along with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, want an independent review of Epstein case files released by the government to ensure that the records haven’t been tampered with or concealed. Senators Adam Schiff and Dick Durbin…

House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t seem to understand why President Donald Trump’s violent racism is his problem. Trump confirmed Tuesday that he’d used the epithet “shithole countries” eight years ago during a closed-door meeting with senators,…

Donald Trump’s big mouth could cost him more Republican votes in Indiana as he pushes the Hoosier State to redistrict.Anxious about the 2026 midterms, Trump issued directives to several red states, including Indiana, to redraw their congressional maps in…

Artificial intelligence is rushing into our lives at a breakneck pace. And the AI mavens know it: In the merging language of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill, they like to describe our present state of affairs as a “race.” There are reports that the…

Midway through the journey of her life, Olivia Nuzzi found herself in Malibu, for she had wandered from the straightforward path. In exile from the East Coast, where she had held a plum gig with New York, she awoke on the West, with a plum gig at Vanity Fair,…

Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists. To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more…

In The Emperor, Ryszard Kapuściński’s classic portrait of autocratic senility, Emperor Haile Selassie orders a great palace to be built in Ethiopia’s Ogaden Desert, keeps a liveried staff there for many years—but visits the site only a single day. In…

In May 2025, the Supreme Court handed down a 4–4 split decision in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond. That deadlock left intact a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court that denied what would have been the nation’s first publicly funded…

Et tu, ChatGPT?On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled his department’s new AI chatbot for military personnel, GenAI.mil. Almost immediately, the bot called a “hypothetical” situation where the government orders a strike on a suspected…

The Department of Homeland Security just paid nearly $140 million to be in charge of managing its own deportation flights. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has signed a multimillion-dollar contract to purchase six Boeing 737 aircrafts from Daedalus…

Now that the 2025 elections are over, we can definitively say: This was a very good year for Democrats. According to an analysis by Daniel Nichanian for Bolts, Democrats flipped 21 percent of Republican-held state legislative seats—a huge upset and a…

The feds worked for a year to extradite a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling millions of dollars of U.S. aviation equipment into Russia for its war on Ukraine. But now that she’s finally in the United States, where she can face charges, the Department of…

The U.S. government is threatening new sanctions on the International Criminal Court unless it changes its founding document to guarantee that it won’t prosecute President Trump or other administration officials. Reuters, citing an unnamed White House…

House Speaker Mike Johnson just unveiled Republicans’ plan to address spiking health care costs—and it’s a disaster. As Affordable Care Act tax credits are set to expire in just a few weeks, sending health care costs surging for more than 20 million…