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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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February 17, 2022
Alex Shephard
Peter Thiel Is Funding the Next Wave of Trumpism
The billionaire is backing far-right Republicans who are anti-democracy, anti-China, and pro-crypto.
February 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Decision to Seize Afghan Assets Is Immoral and Inhumane
Afghanistan is in the midst of a desperate humanitarian crisis, and the White House seems bent on deepening it.
February 11, 2022
Alex Shephard
Palin’s Self-Pitying Performance in the New York Times Case Is Just What Her Career Needs
No matter the verdict, the former conservative darling has won.
February 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
Fox News Can’t Get Enough of Canada’s Freedom-Loving Truckers
The network’s hosts see the convoy as a means of stirring up a similar movement in the United States.
February 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
Mike Pence Is No Hero, and He Never Stood a Chance in 2024 Anyway
Some are praising the former vice president’s remark that “Trump is wrong,” but it was the kind of weak rebuke we’ve come to expect from establishment Republicans in the Trump era.
February 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Facebook’s Sad, Hilarious Pivot (Again) to Video
Faced with an unprecedented crisis, the tech company is pursuing a path that many in the media industry are sure to find darkly amusing.
February 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Political Wreckage of Kyrsten Sinema
For months, the Arizona senator has stymied the Democrats’ agenda, dragged down her party’s reelection hopes, and earned the ire of her supporters. We still don’t know why.
February 2, 2022
Alex Shephard
Jeff Zucker Was the Most Craven TV Executive of the Trump Era
The CNN executive’s commitments to “The Trump Show” wrecked his network—and did lasting damage to the country.
February 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
Is the Media Actually Under-Covering Trump?
The president’s absence from social media was hailed as a relief, but now it’s occluding his increasing derangement.
February 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of Filippo Bernardini and the Stolen Book Manuscripts
His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?
January 26, 2022
Alex Shephard
Spotify Is Getting the Full Joe Rogan Experience, and It’s Awkward
Neil Young’s threat to pull his catalog is only the latest predictable consequence of spending $100 million on the popular, controversial podcaster.
January 21, 2022
Alex Shephard
Bipartisanship Is Dead, and That’s Great News for Joe Biden
The president insisted that Republicans would have an “epiphany” once he became president. This week, he finally acknowledged that wasn’t going to happen.
January 19, 2022
Alex Shephard
Vaccine Politics Are Tearing Republicans Apart
The hot new feud between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis points to the growing relevance of the anti-vax movement on the right.
January 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
David Fincher and the Cinema of Doomscrolling
A conversation with Adam Nayman about the filmmaker’s style and obsessions
January 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Let the Presidential Debates Die
The RNC is threatening to boycott the 2024 presidential debates if changes aren’t made. Everyone will be better off if it does.
January 10, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Running Out of Time
Until Biden’s congressional allies get his agenda unstuck, the party is going to struggle to find a message for the midterms.
January 6, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republican Party Has Perfected Trumpism in His Absence
January 6 has radicalized the GOP beyond the former president’s wildest dreams.
January 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Nonexistent Cancellation of Norman Mailer
Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.
December 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Legalize It, Already!
Biden needs to ditch his old-fashioned ideas about marijuana and realize that legalization is a winning bipartisan issue—something he desperately needs in 2022.
December 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
Laura Ingraham’s and Sean Hannity’s Texts Reveal the Depths of Fox News’s Depravity
The network’s biggest luminaries begged Trump’s chief of staff to stop the January 6 riot. Then they went on the air to excuse it.

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