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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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May 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Can’t Rein In Donald Trump
Fact-checking the president—or even deleting his tweets—is a futile exercise.
May 25, 2020
Alex Shephard
Is Email the Future of Journalism?
With the industry in free fall, new models are emerging.
May 19, 2020
Alex Shephard
The End of The Trip
The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.
May 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
Obamagate Is the Ultimate Republican Non-Scandal
Donald Trump says his predecessor committed the “greatest crime in American political history.” So why can’t he explain what it is?
May 13, 2020
Alex Shephard
Don’t Blame the Coronavirus for Quibi’s Failure
The blinkered logic of venture capital is written all over the new streaming service.
May 11, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Bittersweet Return of Sports
South Korean baseball and German soccer are reminders of how far we still are from normalcy.
May 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why Do Democrats Keep Embracing George W. Bush?
Holding Bush up as a paragon of civic virtue underscores the party’s failures to present a real alternative.
April 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Turns Out Andrew Cuomo Isn’t America’s Governor After All
Under pressure for his coronavirus response, the former media darling of the crisis is sounding a bit like Donald Trump.
April 29, 2020
Alex Shephard
There Is No Hiding Trump
Recent attempts to sideline a self-imploding president have failed miserably.
April 24, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Media Is Blowing the Coverage of the Coronavirus Protests
Maybe there really is nothing to see here.
April 24, 2020
Alex Shephard
Can Michael Jordan Fill the Huge Sports-Size Hole in Our Hearts?
A new 10-part documentary about the NBA legend is unexpectedly poignant now that sports are gone.
April 16, 2020
Alex Shephard
Is This the End of the Indie Bookstore?
How booksellers are coping with the coronavirus crisis—and what comes next
April 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
Joe Biden’s New Podcast Is So Bad
"Here’s the Deal" captures a listless campaign that is uncertain of how to respond to an unfolding crisis.
April 8, 2020
Alex Shephard
How Hydroxychloroquine Became Conservative Media’s Coronavirus Miracle Drug
Weeks after dismissing the virus as a hoax, right-wing media is pushing a cure.
April 4, 2020
Alex Shephard
Keeping Up With the Cuomos
Andrew Cuomo and Chris Cuomo’s family sitcom is competing with President Trump’s daily reality show.
April 1, 2020
Alex Shephard
Sunderland ’Til I Die Is TV’s Best Show About Failure
The Netflix documentary series is the next best thing to watching sports themselves.
March 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
A Tale of Two Stimulus Packages
There was a lot of hand-wringing in the media over the 2009 stimulus. The 2020 stimulus? Not so much.
March 26, 2020
Alex Shephard
How Andrew Cuomo Became a Media Darling
The New York governor has been cast as the anti-Trump and the leader of the Democratic opposition.
March 24, 2020
Alex Shephard
Tucker Carlson Is Leading the White House’s Coronavirus Response
Mike Pence is technically the head of the coronavirus task force, but Donald Trump is taking cues from the Fox News host.
March 20, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Pandemic Movie of Our Time Isn’t Contagion. It’s Jaws.
The 1975 Spielberg flick captures the dread of facing an invisible enemy—and the incompetence of the politicians in charge.

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