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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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February 1, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Bizarre, Unsolved Mystery of Filippo Bernardini and the Stolen Book Manuscripts
His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?
January 26, 2022
Alex Shephard
Spotify Is Getting the Full Joe Rogan Experience, and It’s Awkward
Neil Young’s threat to pull his catalog is only the latest predictable consequence of spending $100 million on the popular, controversial podcaster.
January 21, 2022
Alex Shephard
Bipartisanship Is Dead, and That’s Great News for Joe Biden
The president insisted that Republicans would have an “epiphany” once he became president. This week, he finally acknowledged that wasn’t going to happen.
January 19, 2022
Alex Shephard
Vaccine Politics Are Tearing Republicans Apart
The hot new feud between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis points to the growing relevance of the anti-vax movement on the right.
January 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
David Fincher and the Cinema of Doomscrolling
A conversation with Adam Nayman about the filmmaker’s style and obsessions
January 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Let the Presidential Debates Die
The RNC is threatening to boycott the 2024 presidential debates if changes aren’t made. Everyone will be better off if it does.
January 10, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Running Out of Time
Until Biden’s congressional allies get his agenda unstuck, the party is going to struggle to find a message for the midterms.
January 6, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republican Party Has Perfected Trumpism in His Absence
January 6 has radicalized the GOP beyond the former president’s wildest dreams.
January 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Nonexistent Cancellation of Norman Mailer
Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.
December 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Legalize It, Already!
Biden needs to ditch his old-fashioned ideas about marijuana and realize that legalization is a winning bipartisan issue—something he desperately needs in 2022.
December 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
Laura Ingraham’s and Sean Hannity’s Texts Reveal the Depths of Fox News’s Depravity
The network’s biggest luminaries begged Trump’s chief of staff to stop the January 6 riot. Then they went on the air to excuse it.
December 13, 2021
Alex Shephard
Fox News Just Lost Its Last Tiny Sliver of Credibility
Chris Wallace’s abrupt departure showcases how little actual journalism happens at the right-wing network.
December 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Doesn’t the Pentagon Ever Get Asked, “But How Will You Pay for It?”
The press has relentlessly debated the costs of the Build Back Better Act. But the Defense Department is getting $768 billion for Christmas with nary a peep.
December 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
This Is the Future Republicans Want
Mitch McConnell says the GOP won’t have a legislative agenda for the 2022 midterms, and it’s no wonder: What few ideas the party has are deeply unpopular.
December 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Robert Caro’s Journalism Lessons
A trip to the New York Historical Society’s exhibition of the legendary biographer’s archive with CUNY journalism graduate students
December 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
CNN Covered Itself in Shame to Try to Save Chris Cuomo’s Career
The network bent journalistic rules for the star anchor and his brother in 2020. Can it be surprised that he did the same a year later?
December 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Kyle Rittenhouse’s National Campaign for Right-Wing Martyrdom
With murder acquittal in hand, he’s touring conservative media to reinvent himself as a victim of the culture war.
November 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
It’s Not Too Late to Punish Andrew Cuomo for His Covid Atrocities
Yes, the former New York governor has been out of office for months. But his administration’s deliberate cover-up of nursing home deaths remains an outrage.
November 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who’s Afraid of the Congressional Budget Office?
A negative score from Washington’s budget metaphysicians could have killed the Build Back Better Act. But when a positive one came in, barely anyone noticed.
November 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
What Can Democrats Learn From the 2010 Midterms? A Conversation With Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg
“People are hearing a lot more about what we can’t have than what we can have right now.”

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