The New Republic

Michael Calderone

Inside The New Republic's First Meeting Under New Ownership

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.09.2012

NEW YORK -- On the morning of March 9, Chris Hughes held his first meeting with the staff of the New Republic, the nearly century-old magazine of Amer...

Facebook Co-Founder Buys The New Republic

The Huffington Post | Peter Finocchiaro | Posted 03.09.2012

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is purchasing the New Republic, the nearly century-old political magazine known for its influence in progressive circ...

Has Obama Convinced Americans About the Importance of Community?

The New Republic | William Galston | Posted 02.25.2012

While neither political party has a monopoly on “community,” in recent years Democrats have been more inclined than Republicans to invoke it—non...

Do SOPA and PIPA Conflict With State Dept.'s Global Internet Freedom Goals?

Corbin Hiar | Posted 03.20.2012

Corbin Hiar

If done wrong, anti-piracy legislation could restrict the rights of Internet users across the country -- and put U.S. diplomats in a very awkward position.

New Republic Could Be Sold

nytimes.com | MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED | Posted 03.12.2012

The owners of The New Republic, the nearly century-old magazine that helped define modern American liberalism, are considering selling the magazine or...

Diane Ravitch and the History That "Reformers" Do Not Know

John Thompson | Posted 02.05.2012

John Thompson

Carey wrote that Ravitch "left a polarized history profession in her wake," as if she did not enter the field at a time when traditional historians were under siege.

Jason Linkins

Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America!: This Week In Pundit Pontifications

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2011

Whether we are heading for a Great Entropy or a Similarly Great Syntropy, I feel that it's important that we sail ahead with some sense of decorum. And so I feel compelled to come out against all of this Occupation of Wall Street that I am seeing throughout the nation. Yes, I do agree with everything they're saying. But I just cannot abide what I am seeing in the streets of America. All of this endless commingling of common people -- their thoughts sprawling hither and yon, their angst worn too evidently on their sleeve, their tonsorial habits too varied and non-traditional -- is just so déclassé.

Jason Linkins

The Editors Of The New Republic Find These Wall Street Protests To Be Oh-So-Terribly Gauche!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.12.2011

In a move that's not going to take anyone who's currently a member of America's working class by surprise, the editors of the New Republic have come o...

What's Driving Rick Perry?

The New Republic | Alec MacGillis | Posted 11.27.2011

The Tea Party movement had not yet fully impinged on the nation’s consciousness when Rick Perry stepped to the podium outside Austin City Hall on Ap...

Three Things Obama's Jobs Program Needs

The New Republic | Jonathan Cohn | Posted 10.19.2011

President Obama’s plan to give a major economic speech after Labor Day means that, finally, Washington is going to have a serious conversation about...

How Great Recession Could Still Turn Into Great Depression

The New Republic | Dean Baker | Posted 08.06.2011

When the financial system was on the edge of melting down back in the fall of 2008, there was much talk in the punditocracy of a second Great Depressi...

Common at the White House: What's All the Fuss About?

Danny Groner | Posted 07.15.2011

Danny Groner

Jon Stewart will debate Bill O'Reilly tomorrow night about the Obama administration's decision to invite rapper Common to participate in a poetry reading at the White House last week.

Show Me the Money -- Obama vs. Ryan

Linda Bergthold | Posted 06.13.2011

Linda Bergthold

The president is making a major policy proposal this week, and the Republican proposal, "The Path to Prosperity," has now been released as well. The two approaches could not be more different.

In Wacky GOP Presidential Field, the Donald Trumps the Shark

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.06.2011

Michael Sigman

Donald Trump's transparently idiotic statements about President Obama's birth certificate and other matters haven't made Rupert Murdoch's New York Po...

Why The New Republic is Wrong on Aggregation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Teitelman

An editorial in the New Republic resembles a plaintive cry that the Internet is taking us not to democratic heaven, but to democratic hell. I have some sympathy -- but with reservations.

Big Mag Editors Talk About Their Lack Of Women Contributors

blogs.forward.com | Posted 05.25.2011

New Yorker, Harper's, NYRB and TNR Editors on the Dearth of Female Bylines After my post last month about the gender disparity in magazine publishi...

OPINION: Is Ballet Dying?

nytimes.com | JENNIFER B. MCDONALD | Posted 05.25.2011

"Is Ballet Over?" That's the question that greeted readers of The New Republic in an article adapted from the epilogue of "Apollo's Angels," a history...

How Is Leaking Like Getting a Job?

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley W. Bloch

The social cohesion of small groups may diminish the possibility of someone using the Internet to pass along classified documents -- but it will not remove it.

New Republic Editor Stepping Down

Posted 05.25.2011

Franklin Foer announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as editor of The New Republic. He will be replaced by executive editor Richard Just on Jan....

Ideology, Politics and Guns

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Dennis A. Henigan

Jonathan Chait's description of conservative economic reasoning is equally true of "gun rights" reasoning: "It begins with the conclusion and marches back through the premises."

Innovation: Leading The Great American Comeback

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Gary Shapiro

If we want a strong economy we need to do something about it. We need to reverse course and try another strategy. I suggest one based on innovation of entrepreneurs, rather than new federal spending on government jobs.

"Obama's Wars": The Real Story Bob Woodward Won't Tell

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Russ Baker

For almost four decades, under cover of his supposedly "objective" reporting, Woodward has represented the viewpoints of the military and intelligence establishments. Often he has done so in the context of complex inside maneuvering.

Why Louis Brandeis Matters: Supreme Court Justice Fought Oligarchy, 'Bigness'

The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011

During the past hundred years, [The New Republic] has continued to champion the principles that made Brandeis the greatest constitutional philosopher ...

Sarah Palin Isn't Alaska's First Feminist

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

AlaskaDispatch.com

On the whole, I'd say Alaska is the kind of place where people don't tend to cling to outmoded ideas of what makes a woman a woman. Everybody looks equally silly in chest waders.

All Your Questions About The Real Housewives of DC Answered

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Nancy Doyle Palmer

Who would really say "Colin Powell lives across the street"?