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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 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Did Donald Trump get his phone back?
November 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch Donald Trump get owned at his own dang polling station.
November 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ann Coulter: Actually, the Nuremberg Laws were good.
November 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump (probably) lying about support from Bill Belichick and Tom Brady is the perfect way for the 2016 election to end.
November 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
The 2016 Race Will Never End
The election will technically come to a close tomorrow. But the dynamics that propelled Trump to the brink of the Oval Office will live on.
November 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Donald Trump cabinet will be exactly as bad as you think it will be.
November 7, 2016
Alex Shephard
James Comey is already the election’s biggest loser.
November 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
Larry Wilmore Wants to Talk About the Election
In an interview, the former host of "The Nightly Show" discusses "Insecure," Donna Brazile, and, of course, Donald Trump.
November 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Don’t make me like Brian Williams, Mark Halperin.
November 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
Thank the good people of New Jersey for reminding us that Donald Trump’s campaign is full of crooks.
November 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
We’re talking about turnout, man. We’re talking about turnout.
November 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Slavoj Zizek is auditioning to be on a CNN roundtable.
November 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
2016 has been a great year for sports and nothing else.
November 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
“Shy white voters” won’t be Trump’s salvation.
November 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Paul Ryan’s response to the Comey letter helps explain how we got in this mess in the first place.
November 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is Amazon about to change its pricing model?
November 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
Apprentice producer and man responsible for American decline Mark Burnett may have stopped the flood of damaging Trump leaks.
November 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
It’s going to be a close election.
November 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is the FBI trying to swing the election?
November 1, 2016
Alex Shephard
That “secret” server in Trump Tower probably isn’t “communicating” with Russia.

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