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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 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
How a Nation of 145 Million People Goes Dark Practically Overnight
The Russian autocrat has bolstered his disinformation war in ways that will cause lasting damage to Russian civil society.
March 7, 2022
Alex Shephard
Is Soccer on the Brink of a Moral Awakening?
A year of upheaval has pushed the sport to a crossroads.
March 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores
Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf.
March 3, 2022
Alex Shephard
Tucker Carlson Defended Putin. Then He Got Mugged by Reality.
What the Fox News host’s flip-flop on the invasion of Ukraine says about his influence and read on foreign affairs.
March 2, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Ukraine Invasion Has Some War Correspondents Behaving Badly
Offensive comparisons and saber-rattling have undermined otherwise strong coverage.
February 28, 2022
Alex Shephard
Sorry, Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Part of the Republican Establishment Now
What the Georgia congresswoman’s appearance at two conferences—one conservative, one far right—says about the state of the GOP.
February 25, 2022
Alex Shephard
European Soccer Only Has Itself to Blame for Its Russia Problem
The invasion of Ukraine shines a harsh light on the obscene greed that has guided decision-making for decades.
February 24, 2022
Alex Shephard
Trump and His Putin Apologists Blame “Woke” Democrats for Invasion of Ukraine
Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon are throwing the Ukrainian people to the wolves for the sake of scoring culture-war points.
February 23, 2022
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Critics Miss the Good Old Days of Madman Trump
The former president’s apologists are claiming that his recklessness would have been more effective in countering Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
February 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Doomed, and Somehow It’s All the Squad’s Fault?
What Axios’s Mike Allen gets wrong about the recent San Francisco election and the Democrats’ “overall image”
February 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republicans Are Also in Disarray
Democratic squabbling and inertia have garnered most of the headlines. But the GOP is an unholy mess.
February 17, 2022
Alex Shephard
Peter Thiel Is Funding the Next Wave of Trumpism
The billionaire is backing far-right Republicans who are anti-democracy, anti-China, and pro-crypto.
February 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Decision to Seize Afghan Assets Is Immoral and Inhumane
Afghanistan is in the midst of a desperate humanitarian crisis, and the White House seems bent on deepening it.
February 11, 2022
Alex Shephard
Palin’s Self-Pitying Performance in the New York Times Case Is Just What Her Career Needs
No matter the verdict, the former conservative darling has won.
February 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
Fox News Can’t Get Enough of Canada’s Freedom-Loving Truckers
The network’s hosts see the convoy as a means of stirring up a similar movement in the United States.
February 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
Mike Pence Is No Hero, and He Never Stood a Chance in 2024 Anyway
Some are praising the former vice president’s remark that “Trump is wrong,” but it was the kind of weak rebuke we’ve come to expect from establishment Republicans in the Trump era.
February 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Facebook’s Sad, Hilarious Pivot (Again) to Video
Faced with an unprecedented crisis, the tech company is pursuing a path that many in the media industry are sure to find darkly amusing.
February 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Political Wreckage of Kyrsten Sinema
For months, the Arizona senator has stymied the Democrats’ agenda, dragged down her party’s reelection hopes, and earned the ire of her supporters. We still don’t know why.
February 2, 2022
Alex Shephard
Jeff Zucker Was the Most Craven TV Executive of the Trump Era
The CNN executive’s commitments to “The Trump Show” wrecked his network—and did lasting damage to the country.
February 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
Is the Media Actually Under-Covering Trump?
The president’s absence from social media was hailed as a relief, but now it’s occluding his increasing derangement.

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