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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 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is absolutely going to use the presidency to make money.
November 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump is running his transition like it’s a game show.
November 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest make the Clinton Foundation look like a benign charity.
November 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Among other things, Steve Bannon appears to be a fan of Hilary Mantel.
November 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump, who boasted that he doesn’t settle cases, is nearing a settlement on the Trump University fraud case.
November 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s White House is shaping up to be a team of deplorables.
November 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump’s lies about keeping a Ford factory in America are a scary indication of where his presidency is headed.
November 18, 2016
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Forget Mars. Let’s Go Back to the Moon.
NASA wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Neal Lane, Bill Clinton’s science adviser, says we should be looking at a closer goal.
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
Henry Kissinger always finds a way.
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
Are Democrats Over-Learning the Lessons of Trump’s Victory?
The new conventional wisdom is that Democrats need to woo white working class voters who have been hurt by globalization. Not so fast, some say.
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
So much for Donald Trump’s “populist revolution.”
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
The National Book Awards are woke.
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
Colson Whitehead and Congressman John Lewis lead the National Book Award winners.
November 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
The National Book Awards, like everything else, are probably going to be about Donald Trump.
November 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Trump transition is not going well at all.
November 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump: The Electoral College is good now because I won.
November 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
The ongoing humiliation of Chris Christie is the election’s only silver lining.
November 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Trump cabinet is going to be plagued by scandals.
November 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Harry Reid isn’t holding anything back.
November 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump reportedly threatened Megyn Kelly before the first Republican debate.

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