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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 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.
October 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Jon Gruden’s Emails Are a Symptom of the NFL’s Cultural Rot
The Raiders coach’s racist, sexist, and homophobic emails should prompt a deeper reckoning for the league.
October 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Isn’t the Democratic Reconciliation Bill More Popular?
Polls find huge support for individual pieces of the budget bill, but its cost has overshadowed what it contains.
October 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Obscene Greed Behind the Saudi-Backed Takeover of Newcastle United
Six months after fans brought down the Super League, European soccer is more corrupt than ever.
October 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.
October 6, 2021
Alex Shephard
Kyrsten Sinema Is So Bad at This
Her incoherent “stand” against the Democrats’ budget isn’t just hurting her party, it’s hurting her own reelection prospects.
October 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson on the “Renovation” of the Prize for Literature
Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”
September 29, 2021
Alex Shephard
The MAGA-Lite Future of the Republican Party
Glenn Youngkin is running a tight race for Virginia governor against Democrat Terry McAuliffe by trying to be both a conventional conservative and a winking Trumpist.
September 28, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Media Is Getting the Arizona “Audit” Story Wrong
Reporting that the zany Maricopa County recount “confirmed” Biden’s win lends legitimacy to the effort to suppress the vote.
September 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
How Joe Biden Can Reverse His Incredible Shrinking Presidency
Congressional Democrats are breaking the president’s promise of an FDR-size presidency. It’s time for him to take his case back to the public.
September 23, 2021
Alex Shephard
Mitch McConnell Is Getting Away With a Dangerous Debt Ceiling Gambit
The Senate minority leader is happy to risk economic collapse if it helps the GOP in the midterm elections.
September 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Biden Doctrine Is Not the Trump Doctrine. But What Is It, Exactly?
The comparisons to his predecessor are overblown, but the president’s U.N. speech highlighted some glaring gaps in his foreign policy.
September 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Moderate Democrats Are Sabotaging the Biden Agenda
And they’re hurting their own reelection chances in the process.
September 17, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Senate Democrats Strip Ethics Reform From Their Voting Rights Bill?
The upper chamber’s alternative to the For the People Act does not include any of that bill’s safeguards against the abuses of the Trump era.
September 16, 2021
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How Tucker Carlson Lost It
He once craved responsibility and tried to give a right-wing audience real news. They didn't want it. And he adjusted with a vengeance.
September 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
How Kyrsten Sinema Convinced the Beltway Media That She’s the Sensible, Pragmatic One
All it took was some Excel spreadsheets.

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