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Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.  

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September 8, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Who Refuse to Back Mamdani Are Sending a Scary Message
By declining to endorse their party’s nominee for New York mayor, leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries aren’t just undercutting a rising star. They’re throwing the city to Trump’s wolves.
September 4, 2025
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Has Destroyed American Foreign Policy
He really wants the Nobel Peace Prize. He deserves the opposite.
September 2, 2025
Alex Shephard
I Miss the “Adults in the Room” From Trump’s First Term
During the president’s first administration, I rolled my eyes at the idea that experienced hands were working behind the scenes to restrain him. It’s clear now that I was wrong to dismiss it.
August 27, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Trump Recession Is Coming
The president’s assault on the independence of the Federal Reserve is only the latest of several reckless economic actions that have put the country on the brink of economic disaster.
August 21, 2025
Alex Shephard
How Jeanine Pirro Became Trump’s Most Loyal—and Rabid—Attack Dog
The Fox News personality has quickly emerged as one of the president’s most ruthless backers.
August 8, 2025
Alex Shephard
ICE Begs Supreme Court for Right to Racially Profile Immigrants
The Department of Homeland Security is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to question anyone who speaks Spanish “to support reasonable suspicion that the person is here illegally.”
August 7, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Blowing a Big Opportunity Right Now
What Trump understands about the Texas gerrymandering war that national Democrats do not
August 5, 2025
Alex Shephard
Democrats Have Found Their Message—and Trump Is Freaking Out
Zohran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren know that this is the party’s best chance at taking back power in the 2026 midterm elections.
August 4, 2025
Alex Shephard
Trump Is Desperately Trying to Rig Economic Data in His Favor
The firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the latest front in the president’s war on objective reality.
July 31, 2025
Alex Shephard
Everybody Hates Trump Now
Six months after Trump bragged about a “historic” realignment, voters from across the political spectrum have soured on the president.
July 28, 2025
Alex Shephard
Why Trump’s Epstein Defense Is Failing Miserably
The president is desperately trying to gin up scandals involving Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton because it (sort of) worked before. It won’t now.
July 24, 2025
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Is in a Tailspin
The Epstein scandal is making an unpopular president even more unpopular, and there’s no sign that this will end anytime soon.
July 19, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Epstein Files Are Going to Haunt Trump’s Presidency
Why this could be a lingering, destructive scandal on par with “Russiagate”
July 9, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Epstein Files Anticlimax Is Exposing Trump for Who He Really Is
The president promised to take on the corrupt elites. Now his MAGA faithful are starting to wonder if he’s no different.
June 17, 2025
Alex Shephard
Is Trump About to Get His Own Iraq War?
Though portrayed as an anti-interventionist, he has no problem with war—as long as America gets something in return. Now he’s on the cusp of entangling the U.S. military in a conflict with Iran.
June 5, 2025
Alex Shephard
Democrats, Let Trump and Elon Fight
Don’t be tempted to step in. Definitely don’t try to back Elon. Just sit back and watch.
June 4, 2025
Alex Shephard
Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do?
Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.
June 1, 2025
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.
May 21, 2025
Alex Shephard
Was It Really a “Cover-Up” If We All Knew the Truth About Biden?
It’s true that Biden’s team hid his decline from the public. But the public had long known that he wasn’t fit to serve another term as president.
May 16, 2025
Alex Shephard
Trump Is Doing a Good Job of Making Biden Look Bad
The president’s Middle East romp is defying the rules at every turn. If only his predecessor had shown the same courage.

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