WHO
Skip Navigation
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
VIDEO
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
LATEST
BREAKING NEWS
POLITICS
CLIMATE
CULTURE
MAGAZINE
NEWSLETTERS
PODCASTS
VIDEO
The New Republic
The New Republic
The New Republic
WHO
February 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Called Out for Glaring Lie in His Weak DOGE Defense
Elon Musk whined that DOGE would sometimes make mistakes.
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Ari Schulman
The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge
March 26, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
An Emergency Decades in the Making
Was the United States ever prepared for a pandemic?
October 30, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Most Ebola Patients in the U.S. Survive. Half in Africa Die. Why Are We Letting This Happen?
October 26, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Heroic, Tragic Story of the Doctor Who Saved Nigeria From Ebola
October 21, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Two Reasons To Dial Back Ebola Hysteria
And one reason you shouldn't
October 1, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Airport Screening Would Not Have Stopped Ebola at the U.S. Border
Asymptomatic patients make the virus tough to detect
August 11, 2014
Howard Markel
How Scary Is This Ebola Outbreak?
An expert on epidemics answers your questions
Our Writers
Kate Aronoff
Climate & Energy
Perry Bacon
Trumpism & Its Opponents
Malcolm Ferguson
Breaking News
Matt Ford
Law & the Courts
Melissa Gira Grant
LGBTQ Rights
Heather Souvaine Horn
Climate Change
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Breaking News
Jason Linkins
Power & Plutocracy
Timothy Noah
Politics & Economy
Edith Olmsted
Breaking News
Monica Potts
Politics & Class
Hafiz Rashid
Breaking News
Greg Sargent
Politics & Democracy
Grace Segers
Congress & Elections
Alex Shephard
Politics & Media
Michael Tomasky
Politics & Ideas
About
The New Republic
’s history
1