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How Scientists Discovered Extra Steps in Evolution
Two years ago a New Scientist headline announced the “world’s first baby born with new ‘3 parent’ technique.” Whereas an embryo is usually produced by one sperm and one egg, this technique uses genetic...
View ArticleHow an Environmental Catastrophe Could Decide Florida’s Senate Race
Florida’s Senate race, where incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson has been steadily losing ground to Republican Rick Scott, could decide which party controls the Senate next year. And at the moment, it seems...
View ArticleVirgil, Hey
Ah me! I find myself middle-aged divorced lostIn the forest dark of my failures mortgage & slack breastsIt’s hard to admit nobody wants to do me anymoreNot even Virgil will lead me down...
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The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem
This weekend, headlines across the internet announced that the British Museum was to “return looted antiquities to Iraq.” Eight tiny artifacts, some of them 5,000 years old, were handed to Iraqi...
View ArticleViral Ads Don’t Guarantee Victory
On Twitter, where his handle is @IronStache, Randy Bryce seems like he’s already the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district—retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan’s seat. He isn’t....
View ArticleA New Golden Age for Trophy Hunters
President Donald Trump’s proposal last month to weaken the Endangered Species Act has sparked a familiar debate. Environmentalists say he’s shilling for the fossil fuel and logging industries, which...
View ArticleWhat Democrats Should Really Ask Brett Kavanaugh
Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees are often described as “battles,” but they usually turn out to be dramatic theater rather than a theater of war. Nominees are more than happy to...
View ArticleTV’s True Crime Voyeurism Reaches Its Crude End
American culture is in love with murder. It has always been this way: People like watching killers cavort in the movies, and trashy true-crime documentaries pull in the numbers. There’s a whole network...
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When a Young Trump Went to Russia
On a frigid December day in 2017, Oleg Kalugin opens the door of his house in Rockville, Maryland, an upper-middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C., to meet me. Nothing in particular distinguishes his...
View ArticleWhat France Means When It Talks About ‘Anti-Semitism’
“They spit when I walked in the street,” Joanna Galilli, 28, a French Jew, told the New York Times late last month. She, like many Jews in recent years, had left a suburb of Paris to move to the 17th...
View ArticleHow to Cure Corporate America’s Selfishness
Corporations have always been “creatures of the State,” as Teddy Roosevelt once called them. But they have become a kind of Frankenstein’s monster, unmoored from their creators to wreak havoc on the...
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Moments Like This
There’s something about a first national election of the Trump presidency that focuses the mind. For now, at least, anxious rhetoric about contemporary America’s proximity to Weimar Germany and...
View ArticleThe New Republic September Issue: Identity Crisis
New York, NY—(August 16, 2018)—The New Republic today published its September issue, which features a cover package that explores who the Democrats need to be in the Trump era and poses the question,...
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Can the Democrats Fix Washington?
For Democrats, the stakes for this year’s congressional elections have risen more dramatically than anyone could have foreseen even just a short time ago. All the weighty factors are still there—the...
View ArticleDon’t Abolish ICE
In an interview after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in June over incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley, Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called the 28-year-old “the future...
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Free the Whales
If you designed a job to embody a kind of old-school masculinity, you couldn’t do much better than orca capture, which combines elements of hunting, fishing, rodeo, and unfettered capitalism. Chasing,...
View ArticleCan Washington’s Least Favorite Former Congressman Stage a Comeback?
In September of 2009, Alan Grayson—a freshman Democrat from Central Florida—stood in the well of the House, flanked by an easel, and told Americans that “if you get sick … the Republican health care...
View ArticleThe Soccer Mom Strikes Back
Chrissy Houlahan has almost everything Democratic strategists look for in a candidate: A political newcomer, she served in the military and has experience in both the public and private sectors. But...
View ArticleNo Trend Is Spared in Younger
There is a joke that I have started hearing around New York City, in the (admittedly small) publishing circles I travel in: that if you hear a good tidbit of gossip, you can almost guarantee it will...
View ArticleCan the Catholic Church Reform From Within?
The numbers alone are staggering: 1,000 victims, 300 priests. On Tuesday, to collective horror, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released the results of its grand jury investigation into child sexual...
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