The New Yorker Festival, the magazine’s annual celebration of culture and ideas, will return on October 23rd through October 25th, in New York City. This year’s events feature some of today’s most influential thinkers and entertainers, among them Conan O’Brien, Isabel Wilkerson, Colson Whitehead, Mariska Hargitay, and Aaron Sorkin, inContinue Reading
In 2015, when Donald Trump descended a golden escalator to announce his campaign for President, he had a clear target: George W. Bush’s younger brother Jeb. Jeb was at the top of the polls. His super PAC had raised more than a hundred million dollars, dwarfing the funds of the tenContinue Reading
In a tearful, 18-minute monologue that aired Thursday night, erstwhile country-music star Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord may have come to terms with the fact that his career has gone the way of the Dixie Chicks. “I’m going to try to do the right thing right now, because human dignity isn’tContinue Reading
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An event in New York City featuring a prominent Hindu nationalist is being promoted as an invitation to send a positive message that “the world is one family”. But an array of faith groups, advocacy organisations and unprivileged-caste organisations say they are not convinced. They fear Saturday’s rally, held at MadisonContinue Reading
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This is a lightly edited transcript of the August 25 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: Good morning. I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of Right Now on The New Republic. RightContinue Reading
A shadowy polling firm confessed this week to faking survey results in two marquee races — then claimed the entire operation was a “short-term social experiment” on misinformation.Why it matters: An AI-enabled flood of synthetic and outright fabricated content is wreaking havoc on reality, poisoning the signals people rely onContinue Reading
Politics Evan Barker’s debut book exposes the rot hollowing out the Democratic Party. One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with diversity,Continue Reading
Across southern Africa, sitting presidents have faced a wave of turnovers and electoral setbacks in the past few years. Malawi and Botswana saw opposition victories. In Namibia and South Africa, incumbents were re-elected, but with significantly smaller majorities. In Zambia, the Patriotic Front suffered a humiliating defeat in 2021 asContinue Reading
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