South Korea Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Big Natural Gas Announcement
Did President Donald Trump just lie about a massive investment from South Korea? Trump announced Wednesday that South Korea had agreed to invest $200 billion in energy infrastructure, including a $54...
View ArticleTrump Kicks Out CNN Again Despite Judge’s Order
President Donald Trump blocked CNN from the White House press pool Thursday morning, continuing his feud with the network despite a court order allowing them on the White House grounds. Trump removed...
View ArticleMike Johnson Aide Abruptly Cancels Luxury Trip for Congressional Staff
Congressional staffers were planning to take a luxury trip to Europe, complete with stops in Milan, the Champagne region of France, and a Ferrari factory in Bologna, Italy, just weeks before the...
View ArticleGOP Senator Knowingly Used Unvetted Info to Try to Trap Jack Smith
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt was warned that his attempt to trap former special counsel Jack Smith might be baseless—before he humiliated himself on the Senate floor anyway. Republican staff on the...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump TV Ads Backfire as Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 1 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleThe Bleak Future of HBO’s Lanterns
Some cultural objects seem to tell the future. They may strike us as urgent or novel or strange when they first appear, but, in retrospect, we understand them to be prescient, to have seen something...
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Blue-State Governors Are Rolling Over for Trump’s FBI
In a survey of every Democratic governor in America, not a single state leader told The New Republic that they would move to dismantle state and local police participation in the FBI task forces...
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America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?
Recent polling by Strength in Numbers and Verasight paints a dismal picture for Donald Trump and the GOP as they head into the midterms. Trump’s approval rating has fallen to the mid-to-low 30s, driven...
View ArticleLiberals Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The New York Times has a massive, almost hegemonic influence on the political discourse among liberals in America. That’s a bold statement, and not one I can easily prove. But I think that’s the...
View ArticleTrump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP
Donald Trump has been running propaganda ads starring, well, himself as a way to help the GOP in the midterms. The ads are government-funded, and one official even suggested that the payment scheme is...
View ArticlePennsylvania Nears 1,000 Measles Cases as RFK Jr. Remains Silent
An unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was confirmed to have died from measles, according to an announcement by the state Health Department Wednesday.The death marks the fifth...
View Article“No Beardos, No Weirdos”: Hegseth Goes on Bizarre Rant to Silent Crowd
Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address Wednesday was a bizarre journey in which he rehashed or remixed his most common talking points in TED Talk fashion. Hegseth got to the culture war stuff...
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Pete Hegseth Has a Bonkers Party Favor for Soldiers at His Speech
Some 600 attendees at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia Wednesday received an unexpected keepsake during the officer-reduction...
View ArticleHegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a...
View ArticleDOJ Prepares to Investigate Nearly Every Federal Judge in Blue State
Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching an investigation against almost every federal judge in Minnesota.In a press conference Wednesday, Blanche announced that the Department of Justice filed a...
View ArticleTrump, 80, Unveils Midterm Plan That Will Surely Make Him Pass Out
Donald Trump is planning to hit the campaign trail for 32 days before the midterm elections.That would put the president on the campaign trail for more than 94 percent of the time between now and...
View ArticleTrump Tries to Deport Hasidic Jew Who Protested Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport a Hasidic Jew for protesting against Israel. The New York Times reports that Yehonatan Ovadia, a religious teacher in Rockland County, New York, had his...
View ArticleTrump Uses Decades-Old Law to Collect Flock Data Nationwide
Thanks to a 1980s anti–drug trafficking program, cities across the U.S. are being forced to turn over their license plate reader data to the Trump administration.404 Media reports that the federal...
View ArticleAnother Republican Senator Breaks With Trump Over ICE
Another Republican senator is begging the Trump administration to reduce its immigration raids. West Virginia Senator and Trump loyalist Jim Justice—mostly known for parading his massive bulldog around...
View ArticleTrump Promises to Hand Out More Cash, This Time to Help Data Centers
The Trump administration has resorted to trying to bribe Americans to let data centers into their communities.“The people are going to benefit directly, whether its teachers that get paid a bonus,...
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