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Tom Emmer Is the Republican Party’s Stealth Bomber

Patrick Caldwell

Patrick Caldwell

Tom Emmer Is the Republican Party’s Stealth Bomber

Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act. Then Double Down on Demonizing Fossil Fuels.

Aaron Regunberg

Aaron Regunberg

Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act. Then Double Down on Demonizing Fossil Fuels.

Rushdie at a reading in Berlin, Germany

Aaron R. Hanlon

Cancel Culture Did Not Stab Salman Rushdie

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee addressed the FBI's recent search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump’s Republican Defenders Inexplicably Forgot To Expect the Worst

Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee addressed the FBI's recent search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump’s Republican Defenders Inexplicably Forgot To Expect the Worst

Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

Editor’s Picks

Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss

The Bland Ambition of Kevin McCarthy

The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.

A student looks at learning material featuring sharks.

Brynn Tannehill

The Republican Plan To Devastate Public Education in America

Conservatives talk about “school choice.” What they really want, though, will result in the end of public education for the poor, and disfavored minorities like LGBT people.