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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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July 9, 2018
Alex Shephard
Why Trump Might Lose His Trade War With China
The administration is engaging in a giant game of chicken—and there's no reason to believe the other side will blink first.
July 6, 2018
Alex Shephard
Is Amazon doing enough to stop the sale of white supremacist propaganda?
July 6, 2018
Alex Shephard
Is Barnes & Noble Too Big to Fail?
With the sudden departure of yet another CEO, the bookstore chain is facing existential questions.
July 5, 2018
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Big Trade War Bluff
When the president threatens to blow up the global economy, he is really playing to a domestic audience.
July 3, 2018
Alex Shephard
Wilbur Ross shorted two more stocks than previously thought.
July 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is excellent at selling books that trash him; mediocre at selling books that praise him.
July 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
How important was LeBron James to Cleveland’s economy?
July 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Amazon’s Audiobook Boom
The craze for audio storytelling may be the company's best way to compete with traditional publishers when it comes to creating original content.
June 29, 2018
Alex Shephard
Trump’s relationship with Justice Kennedy sounds shady in this new report.
June 29, 2018
Alex Shephard
How Conservatives Are Hoodwinking Big Tech
Thanks to threats of regulation, Twitter and Facebook are cozying up to the right. But Republicans may have a different agenda.
June 28, 2018
Alex Shephard
Multiple people have been shot at the offices of an Annapolis newspaper.
June 27, 2018
Alex Shephard
The Other Side of Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post
A protracted contract dispute suggests that being owned by a tech billionaire may have serious drawbacks for workers.
June 26, 2018
Alex Shephard
The fate of literary publishing in the twenty-first century, in three numbers.
June 22, 2018
Alex Shephard
Wilbur Ross’s Financial Shenanigans Should Be a Massive Scandal
The Commerce secretary has flown under the radar, thanks to the migrant family-separation crisis. But a reckoning is coming this fall.
June 22, 2018
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From City Hall to the White House
Why Democrats should take mayors seriously as presidential candidates
June 20, 2018
Alex Shephard
Will Atul Gawande bring the “Cheesecake Factory model” to Amazon’s new health care company?
June 1, 2018
Alex Shephard
Did Trump tell anyone about the jobs report before he tweeted about it?
May 31, 2018
Alex Shephard
For Jeff Bezos, Space Is the Place
Why Amazon's founder has his sights set on the stars
May 25, 2018
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk’s Fall to Earth
Why the Silicon Valley titan is lashing out at the press.
May 24, 2018
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump just pulled out of the North Korea summit.

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