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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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April 26, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Case for Not Worrying (Too Much) About Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter
The Tesla CEO’s plans are grandiose—and vague.
April 26, 2022
Alex Shephard
Should Reporters Save Scoops for Books?
Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns have stoked controversy with their revelation-packed book on Trump’s final days in office.
April 21, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republicans Are Going to Spend Two Years Impeaching Joe Biden Over and Over Again
When the GOP (probably) retakes the House in 2023, a flurry of bogus investigations will follow.
April 20, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Right’s War on Vaccines Is Spreading Beyond Covid
Childhood vaccination rates are plummeting amid misinformation and fearmongering.
April 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republican Establishment Tried to Overturn the Election, Too. Mike Lee’s Texts Prove It.
Yes, the Utah senator voted to certify Biden’s victory. But texts between him and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows show just how deep the GOP effort to overturn the election was.
April 8, 2022
Alex Shephard
The GOP Is Going Full QAnon
Democrats should prepare for accusations of being soft on pedophilia (or worse) in the midterm elections.
April 7, 2022
Alex Shephard
Truly Bipartisan Supreme Court Confirmations Are Dead
Yes, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will get some GOP votes. But don’t expect either party to confirm a nomination from the other when they’re in the majority.
April 5, 2022
Alex Shephard
Twitter’s Elon Musk Trap
The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.
April 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
Trump and Pence Believe in Almost the Exact Same Things
The former vice president’s new “Freedom Agenda” is basically Trumpism, minus the Russia love.
March 29, 2022
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Missing Phone Records Have a Familiar Stink of Criminality
A nearly eight-hour gap in White House logs hearkens back to the Watergate scandal’s most pivotal moment.
March 28, 2022
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Putin Gaffe Has Nuclear Consequences
Bellicose and confusing remarks about regime change in Moscow won’t help end the war—but they could escalate it.
March 25, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Media Has Yet to Grasp the Full Enormity of Ginni Thomas’s Text Messages
Reports have latched onto the lurid, QAnon-inflected scandal on the surface, but they’ve yet to plumb the depths of the corruption at its heart.
March 25, 2022
Alex Shephard
Just Because Mo Brooks Is Sparring With Trump Doesn’t Mean That Trump Is in Trouble
The former president may have shed his outside-the-Beltway skin, but his base—and the party—are even more committed to Trumpism.
March 24, 2022
Alex Shephard
Congress Is Leaving Americans to Fend for Themselves Against Omicron BA.2
With fears of a new Covid variant rising, legislators are dithering on providing enough money for testing and care.
March 22, 2022
Alex Shephard
Is This the End of “America First”?
Trump and allies like J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson may have overestimated the appeal of the former president’s isolationism.
March 21, 2022
Alex Shephard
Disney Didn’t Say a Word About Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, but Money Talks
The firm donated generously to Florida Republicans and got $578 million in tax breaks in return for its investment.
March 17, 2022
Alex Shephard
Fumbling Toward Post-Trumpism With the Conservative Intelligentsia
The National Review has once again circled back to rejecting Trump, this time in favor of his disciples.
March 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
Republicans’ Wildly Cynical and Slightly Ignorant Support for a No-Fly Zone
Sure, it could start World War III. But some GOP politicians are calling for a no-fly zone in Ukraine to try to hurt Biden politically.
March 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Amazon Misses Trump, Badly
The Biden administration’s growing antitrust activity surprised the corporate behemoth, which had expected kid gloves from Democrats.
March 11, 2022
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s Crown Is Starting to Slip
The former president’s vaunted kingmaking abilities have been called into question as many of his endorsed candidates are struggling in key races.

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