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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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December 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
This Is the Future Republicans Want
Mitch McConnell says the GOP won’t have a legislative agenda for the 2022 midterms, and it’s no wonder: What few ideas the party has are deeply unpopular.
December 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Robert Caro’s Journalism Lessons
A trip to the New York Historical Society’s exhibition of the legendary biographer’s archive with CUNY journalism graduate students
December 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
CNN Covered Itself in Shame to Try to Save Chris Cuomo’s Career
The network bent journalistic rules for the star anchor and his brother in 2020. Can it be surprised that he did the same a year later?
December 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Kyle Rittenhouse’s National Campaign for Right-Wing Martyrdom
With murder acquittal in hand, he’s touring conservative media to reinvent himself as a victim of the culture war.
November 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
It’s Not Too Late to Punish Andrew Cuomo for His Covid Atrocities
Yes, the former New York governor has been out of office for months. But his administration’s deliberate cover-up of nursing home deaths remains an outrage.
November 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who’s Afraid of the Congressional Budget Office?
A negative score from Washington’s budget metaphysicians could have killed the Build Back Better Act. But when a positive one came in, barely anyone noticed.
November 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
What Can Democrats Learn From the 2010 Midterms? A Conversation With Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg
“People are hearing a lot more about what we can’t have than what we can have right now.”
November 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Chris Christie Already Lost His War With Donald Trump
The governor had a shot to save the Republican Party from the former president’s destructive tendencies five years ago. He missed.
November 11, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Brag About the Economy?
Even with very real concerns about inflation and the global supply chain, the economy is in good shape. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say so.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?
The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump Will Be Back on the Ballot Next Year, in All but Name
In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin kept his distance from the former president and won. It won’t be so easy for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
November 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
The GOP’s Only True Purity Test Is the Delusional Belief in Election Fraud
Trump’s Big Lie is the one thing that keeps Republicans together.
October 28, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did The Wall Street Journal Publish a Letter From Donald Trump Pushing the Big Lie?
Once again, the paper’s editorial page undermines its reporters.
October 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
Glenn Youngkin Wants to Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved
The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.
October 25, 2021
Alex Shephard
Facebook Is Even Worse Than Anyone Imagined
A trove of internal documents reveal a company that is willfully spreading misinformation and hate in pursuit of profit and growth.
October 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do You Want to Get in on the Ground Floor of Trump’s Dumb New Social Media Site?
The former president has come up with a way to get back into the limelight and make a quick buck.
October 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Release the January 6 Documents!
Donald Trump is trying to tie them up in endless litigation, but Joe Biden has the authority to release them now.
October 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia’s Race for Governor
Many fear that if Terry McAuliffe loses, doom for Democrats is imminent. Don’t be so sure.
October 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
Sports Reporting Is Broken
Shams Charania and Adam Schefter showed why access journalism is a bankrupt and corrupt approach to newsgathering.
October 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republican War on Vaccine Mandates Will Not End Well for Them
Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are giving Democrats an opening to retake the Covid-19 narrative and exploit a winning issue.

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