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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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July 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
If You Want to Get Ahead in the GOP, You’d Better Support Trump’s Big Lie
Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.
July 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Blame New York City’s Election Mess on Ranked-Choice Voting
Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.
June 24, 2021
Alex Shephard
Mainstream Reporters Are Parroting the Republicans’ Idiotic Talking Points About Crime
The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.
June 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Maybe the Democrats Don’t Care That Much About Voting Rights, After All
The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.
June 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
The NCAA Is Screwed
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston has put the end of the organization’s exploitation of college athletes in sight.
June 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
England Now Has a Junior Varsity Version of the Fox News Channel
Critics are concerned about w hat newly launched GB News will do to the United Kingdom. For now, at least, they have little to fear.
June 16, 2021
Alex Shephard
A Trump Memoir Would Be a Huge Seller, but No Major Publisher Wants to Buy It
The big publishing houses routinely push out political books that are less than truthful, but the former president’s lies seem to be a bridge too far.
June 15, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Specter of Critical Race Theory Is Rotting Republicans’ Brains
Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.
June 13, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Seriously Think Trump Lost the Election Because of a Lab Leak Cover-Up That They Invented
Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.
June 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers
For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.
June 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Brian Stelter on How the 2020 Election “Radicalized” Fox News
“The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”
June 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Party of Trump Is Trying to Get People Mad at Anthony Fauci Again
The latest attacks from the GOP betray its desperation to find something, anything, to attack Joe Biden with.
June 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s War on the Press Isn’t Over Until Biden Ends It
The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.
June 4, 2021
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Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
June 3, 2021
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Infrastructure Week Is Turning Into a Joke, Too
The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
June 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Republicans Want a Coup
Michael Flynn’s embrace of a Myanmar-style military overthrow is chilling. It’s also a growing position within the GOP.
May 31, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Fear Trump May Wreck Their Chances to Fulfill His Darkest Fantasies
Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.
May 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Amazon Devours MGM in the Latest Merger of the Content Armageddon
The e-commerce giant covets the Hollywood studio’s sweet, sweet cache of intellectual property.
May 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
CNN Fired Rick Santorum and Forgave Chris Cuomo. Ethics Had Nothing to Do With It.
Good luck trying to figure out what the network’s journalistic standards are.
May 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Associated Press Gives in to Right-Wing Trolls
A bad-faith smear campaign over college activism cost a news associate her job.

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