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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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March 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Conservatives have no idea what to do about Ted Cruz.
March 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump won Arkansas, too.
March 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Expect to hear this a lot in the coming days: Ted Cruz has beaten Donald Trump three times.
March 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is routing the competition. (Especially Marco Rubio.)
March 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Hillary Clinton has won the Alabama and Tennessee primaries. (Oh, and she took American Samoa, too.)
March 1, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig, Alex Shephard
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz joins the GOP in standing up for payday lenders.
March 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is trying to pretend that he isn’t super insecure about his tiny fingers, which resemble cocktail weenies.
March 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Steve Martin did not want to do The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
March 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Marco Rubio should be sweating.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is Chris Rock responsible for the Oscars’ low, low ratings?
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Oscars went downhill after Chris Rock’s monologue.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
John Oliver finally went in on Donald Trump.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Will Super Tuesday propel the Republican Party to the bargaining stage of the Kübler-Ross model?
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
And the winners of the 2016 Oscars are...
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his Oscar.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the Oscar-winning director of A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, has had quite a week.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Not much has changed since the last time Chris Rock took an Oscar poll at a Los Angeles movie theater, in 2005.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Leonardo DiCaprio is so over your bear jokes.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
What the hell was that Stacey Dash bit?
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Chris Rock: “Is Hollywood racist? You’re damn right Hollywood is racist.”

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