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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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January 22, 2016
Alex Shephard
Tom Brady is a weirdo who calls Wall Street bankers when they’re having bad days.
January 22, 2016
Alex Shephard
Oscar-nominated actress Charlotte Rampling: #OscarsSoWhite is “racist to whites.”
January 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Oscars are maybe slowly turning into a disaster for the Academy.
January 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
David Bowie would’ve killed on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show.
January 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Washington, D.C. is going to be just fine if there’s a giant blizzard this weekend... Just fine...
January 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Rand Paul should re-read The Lord of the Rings before he goes around calling Donald Trump “Gollum.”
January 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Russell Westbrook is out here destroying worlds.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch members of Coldplay reminisce about the time David Bowie told them they were bad.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson is gunning for the dad vote.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Which presidential candidates have seen Michael Bay’s new Benghazi movie 13 Hours?
January 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Here is Martin O’Malley’s “I’m a bad widdle boy” face.
January 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Young people still love Bernie Sanders, even though he desperately needs a Werther’s Original right now.
January 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Sanders: “Whenever anybody in this country is killed in police custody it should automatically trigger a US attorney general investigation.”
January 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Martin O’Malley still has to remind everyone what his name is.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
The stock market is having a very bad 2016.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
As one leader falls, another rises.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Bad Robot pulled another Cloverfield with the 10 Cloverfield Lane trailer.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
If you ever need to remember that Steph Curry is human, watch him dunk.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ted Cruz’s closing statement: “Hey, you should really go see the new Michael Bay movie.”
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Jeb the Fighter has retired. Jeb is Mr. Polite now.

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