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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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November 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Chris Christie Already Lost His War With Donald Trump
The governor had a shot to save the Republican Party from the former president’s destructive tendencies five years ago. He missed.
November 11, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Brag About the Economy?
Even with very real concerns about inflation and the global supply chain, the economy is in good shape. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say so.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?
The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.
November 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump Will Be Back on the Ballot Next Year, in All but Name
In Virginia, Glenn Youngkin kept his distance from the former president and won. It won’t be so easy for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
November 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
The GOP’s Only True Purity Test Is the Delusional Belief in Election Fraud
Trump’s Big Lie is the one thing that keeps Republicans together.
October 28, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did The Wall Street Journal Publish a Letter From Donald Trump Pushing the Big Lie?
Once again, the paper’s editorial page undermines its reporters.
October 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
Glenn Youngkin Wants to Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved
The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia’s closing message gives the “critical race theory” game away.
October 25, 2021
Alex Shephard
Facebook Is Even Worse Than Anyone Imagined
A trove of internal documents reveal a company that is willfully spreading misinformation and hate in pursuit of profit and growth.
October 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do You Want to Get in on the Ground Floor of Trump’s Dumb New Social Media Site?
The former president has come up with a way to get back into the limelight and make a quick buck.
October 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Release the January 6 Documents!
Donald Trump is trying to tie them up in endless litigation, but Joe Biden has the authority to release them now.
October 19, 2021
Alex Shephard
Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia’s Race for Governor
Many fear that if Terry McAuliffe loses, doom for Democrats is imminent. Don’t be so sure.
October 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
Sports Reporting Is Broken
Shams Charania and Adam Schefter showed why access journalism is a bankrupt and corrupt approach to newsgathering.
October 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republican War on Vaccine Mandates Will Not End Well for Them
Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are giving Democrats an opening to retake the Covid-19 narrative and exploit a winning issue.
October 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Jon Gruden’s Emails Are a Symptom of the NFL’s Cultural Rot
The Raiders coach’s racist, sexist, and homophobic emails should prompt a deeper reckoning for the league.
October 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Isn’t the Democratic Reconciliation Bill More Popular?
Polls find huge support for individual pieces of the budget bill, but its cost has overshadowed what it contains.
October 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Obscene Greed Behind the Saudi-Backed Takeover of Newcastle United
Six months after fans brought down the Super League, European soccer is more corrupt than ever.
October 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did Abdulrazak Gurnah Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
2021’s Nobel laureate is a little-known novelist and literary critic who was born in Zanzibar and has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s.
October 6, 2021
Alex Shephard
Kyrsten Sinema Is So Bad at This
Her incoherent “stand” against the Democrats’ budget isn’t just hurting her party, it’s hurting her own reelection prospects.
October 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Nobel Committee Chair Anders Olsson on the “Renovation” of the Prize for Literature
Years after scandal rocked the committee, there’s a new commitment to broadening the prize’s horizons. But “literary merit,” Olsson insists, remains “the absolute and only criterion.”

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