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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 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Paul Ryan either quit Islam and shaved off his beard or just shaved off his beard.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch President Obama invoke Zaevion Dobson, a 15-year-old who sacrificed his life to spare the lives of his friends from a gunman.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Twitter is considering upping its character limit from 140 to 10,000. (Though if you really want to, you can tweet 10,000 characters right now.)
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch President Obama wipe away tears while unveiling new gun control measures.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
VICE News correspondent Mohammed Rasool has been released from Turkish prison.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
A writer at The Federalist finally got around to watching Parks & Recreation. You’ll never guess what happened next.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Dwyane Wade still has lift.
January 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister doesn’t get why everyone is so upset about all of those executions.
January 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
The owner of the Phoenix Suns thinks his team is bad because millennials are bad.
January 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continue to escalate.
December 31, 2015
Alex Shephard
All eight of the books longlisted for the 2015 John Leonard Prize were written by women.
December 31, 2015
Alex Shephard
George Lucas: “The Star Wars movies are my kids ... and I sold them off to white slavers.”
December 31, 2015
Alex Shephard
Bob Vila is helping to restore Ernest Hemingway’s old Havana house.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Bill Cosby’s trial may include testimony from other women who have accused him of sexual assault.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Karl Knausgaard saw a brain.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Slash and Axl Rose will reunite at Coachella, where they will presumably go on three hours late.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Report: An arrest warrant has been issued for Bill Cosby for an alleged 2004 sexual assault.
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
Report: George Pataki, who was running for president, is no longer running for president.
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
Everybody wants the new Yeezys, even though they look like common leopard slugs.
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
Barnes & Noble denies that it’s shutting down the B&N Review.

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