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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 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Are the Bill of Rights ranked in order of importance?
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ted Cruz is the first candidate to outfox Donald Trump.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
What if you threw a Benghazi and no one came?
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Hey, remember Ben Carson?
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
This clip from the undercard debate shows just how out of touch the GOP is on gun control.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
For a bunch of people who definitely won’t be president, the undercard debaters sure are taking this thing seriously.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
Maybe George Miller will direct another Mad Max movie after all.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
Alan Rickman will be remembered for his villainous turns, but his best performances were almost always his quieter ones.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
At today’s Oscar nominations, it was good to be a novelist, bad to be Quentin Tarantino or Aaron Sorkin.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Revenant, Spotlight, and Mad Max: Fury Road lead the 2016 Oscar nominations.
January 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
The friends from Friends are coming back to NBC.
January 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
The 2016 Razzie nominations are here.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Irrelevant British man slams relevant British politician.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
A perfectly executed onside kick may have turned the tide for Alabama, but Clemson only has itself to blame for its College Football National Championship loss.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
David Bowie was funny.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
A suicide bomber and suspected ISIS member has killed at least 10 people in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet historical district.
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Why would Han Solo, apolitical smuggler, appear in the upcoming Star Wars movie about the many Bothans who died?
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Crocs are bad shoes and this is a bad tweet.
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Mein Kampf is a bestseller in Germany again.
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
In praise of David Bowie’s nihilism.

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