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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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December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Mitt Romney got played.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Failed businesswoman impressed by shoe.
December 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s response to the allegations of Russian hacking is both dumb and dangerous.
December 9, 2016
Alex Shephard, Clio Chang
The Year in Things We Already Forgot
A guide to the incidents that fleetingly transfixed us in 2016.
December 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Rodrigo Duterte should work on his Trump impression, which is bad.
December 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Rest assured: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says fake news didn’t sway the election.
December 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump saved Christmas!
December 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump has already neutered the deficit hawks in the GOP.
December 6, 2016
Alex Shephard, Laura Reston
Trump’s Political Lesson: Humiliate, or Be Humiliated
Humiliation was the driving force of a presidential election in which the rules of decorum were laid to waste.
December 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Was Donald Trump’s Taiwan phone call just a phone call?
December 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson will run HUD, which has a $50 billion budget and 8,000 employees. What could go wrong?
December 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump’s “victory tour” is really just a “greatest hits tour.”
December 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
The history of the 2016 presidential campaign is already being rewritten.
December 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Now that it’s their problem, Republicans are realizing that Obamacare might not be so bad after all.
December 1, 2016
Alex Shephard, Theodore Ross
“There’s No Check on Trump Except Reality”: A Q&A With Wayne Barrett
The veteran New York journalist dishes on Trump, Giuliani, and more.
December 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
The confirmation hearings for Steven Mnuchin are going to be something.
November 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
Even though it failed, Tim Ryan’s bid for the House Democratic leadership should be applauded.
November 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s plan to keep his businesses separate from his presidency doesn’t do that at all.
November 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Carrier “deal” is proof that Donald Trump is a terrible negotiator.
November 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Trump campaign will never end.

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