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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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October 27, 2025
Alex Shephard
Larry and David Ellison Are Building a Pro-Trump Media Behemoth
With the president’s blessing, the Ellisons’ Skydance merged with Paramount, gaining control of CBS News. Now the new giant might gobble up Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes CNN.
October 23, 2025
Alex Shephard
Graham Platner Is a Disaster. Democrats Need More Candidates Like Him.
Well, maybe not exactly like him.
October 18, 2025
Alex Shephard
Zohran Mamdani Gets It. So Does Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer do not.
October 15, 2025
Alex Shephard
JD Vance Just Gave Us a Preview of Trumpism Without Trump
The vice president doesn’t see why full-grown Republican men should have to apologize for being racist Hitler lovers.
October 10, 2025
Alex Shephard
Why Trump Will Never Win a Nobel Peace Prize
He’s embarrassingly desperate for the honor, but his presidency is becoming ever more dictatorial and bloodthirsty.
October 9, 2025
Alex Shephard, Mark Krotov
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now
László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?
October 8, 2025
Alex Shephard
Russ Vought Is Going to Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did
Americans, and even many Republicans in Congress, don’t like it when an unelected bureaucrat makes huge cuts to the government.
October 6, 2025
Alex Shephard
Trump’s War on America Is Expanding
The president is now unleashing state violence at home and abroad, illegally and with impunity.
October 1, 2025
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Finally Grew a Spine
By daring Trump and the Republicans to shut down the government, the party is taking a stand six months after it should have.
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.

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