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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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January 20, 2020
Alex Shephard
The New York Times’ Endorsement Charade
A weeklong song-and-dance routine ends in farce.
January 16, 2020
Alex Shephard
Can Amazon Finally Crack the Bestseller Code?
The retail giant is publishing commercial fiction by famous authors. Publishers should be terrified.
January 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Trash
His new docuseries on San Francisco highlights the right's attempts to link homelessness and urban decay to Democratic rule.
January 7, 2020
Alex Shephard
What the Media Is Getting Wrong About Soleimani’s Killing
A lying president and a timid Democratic opposition make for bad reporting and analysis.
December 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.
December 18, 2019
Alex Shephard
Facebook Is a Right-Wing Company, Part One Million
Peter Thiel's growing influence over the social network underscores its increasingly conservative bent.
December 17, 2019
Alex Shephard
How the GOP Bamboozled The New York Times’ Politics Desk
The paper's “both sides” approach to Donald Trump's impeachment hearings has been a disaster.
December 13, 2019
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Oligarch of the Month: Michael Bloomberg
The former New York mayor is trying to spend his way to the White House.
December 13, 2019
Alex Shephard
Why the Media Is Ignoring the Afghanistan Papers
The documents are a bombshell. So why do so few news outlets care?
December 4, 2019
Alex Shephard
Tucker Carlson Debuts a New Ukrainegate Defense
The Fox News host has arrived at the crude end of the right's Trumpian logic.
December 2, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Real News Crisis Isn’t Fake News
A recent study suggests that online disinformation campaigns have had only a limited impact on voters.
November 26, 2019
Alex Shephard
If Michael Bloomberg Wants to Run for President, He Should Sell Bloomberg News
No other option really makes sense.
November 21, 2019
Alex Shephard
Another Debate Marks Time in an Endless Primary Season
These increasingly stale cable news outings are starting to feel like America is on a long drive with nothing to think about.
November 20, 2019
Alex Shephard
How Gordon Sondland Broke the Media’s Savior Complex
The star of the impeachment hearings so far wasn't a sober public servant. And that made a difference.
November 15, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Media Is Hopelessly Addicted to Donald Trump
The House's impeachment hearings were dismissed by many as boring—until the president showed up.
November 12, 2019
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Oligarch of the Month: Dmitry Firtash
The energy tycoon is a key player in Trump's Ukraine scandal.
November 8, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Media Has a Right-Wing Bias. Politico’s Founder Just Admitted It.
How Republicans benefit from the media's centrist instincts.
November 7, 2019
Alex Shephard
Is James O’Keefe Good Now?
Not quite.
November 5, 2019
Alex Shephard
How Booing Trump Corrects Media Bias
It's rare is to see that most common thing: regular people who hate the president.
October 31, 2019
Alex Shephard
After Deadspin
With the media industry in decline, we can only expect more of the same from the chuckleheads in the corporate class.

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