The most promising leaders on the left today are not elected politicians.

A college professor explains the real causes of a hotly debated phenomenon.

If the 2005 film relied on explosive star power, the new TV version works harder for its payoffs.

When the author began to transition in her 60s, she saw a lifetime of experiences in a new light.

Journalist Rachel Nolan investigates tens of thousands of forced adoptions and the U.S. policy that enabled them.

A decade ago, the series turned viewers into sleuths, hotly debating plot details and clues. That era of TV is over.

Here is The New Republic’s guide to the contenders for the 96th Academy Awards in 2024

Past and present overlap eerily in Andrew Haigh’s new film, starring Paul Mescal.

Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence.

Lexi Freiman’s novel about a canceled writer skewers pieties left and right.

The writer’s collected letters are a glorious escape from the annoyances of social life into the splendor of prose.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

Despite attacks from their colleagues, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her peers are part of a proud tradition of influential legislators who moved their party left.

Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, and Emma Stone take social awkwardness to the most painful levels TV has ever seen.

The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.

Cord Jefferson’s film starring Jeffrey Wright skewers American publishing—and its main character.

A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our writers and editors enjoyed in 2023

Many of this year’s most notable shows swam in a sea of raw trauma and psychic violence.

Todd Haynes took the story of a tabloid scandal and made it something much stranger.