Live Blog: The First Republican Debate of 2016
The staff of the New Republic, led by senior editors Elspeth Reeve and Jeet Heer, is live-blogging the two Republican primary debates hosted by Fox News on Thursday nigh
View ArticleLindsey Graham: I Wouldn't Disagree With Hillary Clinton on Science of...
Only two candidates, Senator Lindsey Graham and George Pataki, in the second-tier Republican presidential debate on Thursday have accepted that climate change is real and man-made. That doesn't...
View ArticleHighlights From the First Republican Debate Night
The New Republic's top debate stories:"The Republican Party Can't Escape Its Past"— Brian Beutler"
View ArticleBarack Obama Wanted You to Watch the Debate. Hillary Clinton Didn't.
Democrats didn't take the night off when Republicans took the debate stage for the first time in the 2016 presidential campaign. Some were almost gleeful in their anticipation of a circus. But...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Can't Escape Its Past
A lot can happen through three hours of political debate, enough to carry multiple headlines and just as many different analytical perspectives. Even before the main-stage debate Thursday
View ArticleDonald Trump Captures the Hearts of Young Republicans
Donald Trump says he hates our “stupid” political establishment. But even in the heart of Washington, DC, among the Beltway’s young urban professionals, there was a genuine outpouring of love for The...
View ArticleChristian Republicans Can't Agree on Who Deserves Our Government's Compassion
The first round of Republican presidential debates could have been worse. The main event on Thursday night opened with a spat between Rand Paul and Donald Trump and appeared headed for multiple bou
View ArticlePro Wrestling Can Teach You Everything You Need to Know About the GOP Debate
The moment Fox News' Republican debate began on Thursday night, it felt like a professional wrestling show. The crowd was amped, emitting full-blown sports woos. The first question was perfectly cra
View ArticleThe Donald Trump Effect
It doesn’t take much under the best of circumstances to get Donald Trump boasting, so it’s no surprise that the Republican frontrunner used Thursday night’s debate in Cleveland to do some...
View ArticleThe Conservative Media Is Frightened of Donald Trump's Power Over the GOP
Donald Trump was picked on in Thursday's Republican debate—according to Donald Trump, anyway. "I thought their questions to me were much tougher than to oth
View ArticleThe GOP Debate Was Donald Trump's Highest-Rated Reality Show, Ever
There may have been nine other men on stage beside him, but make no mistake: Thursday night’s prime time Republican presidential primary debate on Fox News was the Donald Trump Show, with a...
View ArticleThe GOP's All-of-the-Above Energy Policy Is Nothing Like Obama's
Energy policy rarely came up in the first Republican presidential debate on Fox News on Thursday night, and when it did, there were no surprises: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker propos
View ArticleThe Media's Tired "Trumped" Puns Are New. Getting "Trumped" Is Not.
Donald Trump's unexpected lead in the Republican presidential race has been the gift that keeps on giving to the media—especially to headline writers who can't resist a good pun. “How Jeb got Trumped...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Protesters Are Not the Problem
The activist group Black Lives Matter emerged out of the rage and mourning that accompanied George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin more than three years ago. However, the first...
View ArticleCarly Fiorina Is Dead Wrong About Paid Parental Leave
Over the weekend, Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina followed up her much-lauded debate performace with a CNN appearance in which she came out against any federal mandate regarding paid pare
View ArticleDonald Trump Brought Fox News to Its Knees
On August 10, 2015, Donald Trump might have done the impossible: fight Fox and win. The leader in the Republican presidential primary opinion polls, Trump, has been warring the most powerful arm of the...
View ArticleJeb Bush, Like Many Republicans, Wants a War With Iran
Like all Republican presidential candidates, Jeb Bush is opposed to the world powers nuclear agreement with Iran, and has denounced it in withering terms as a “bad,” “horrific” d
View ArticleDonald Trump, Epic Hero
Donald Trump is famous for his verbal flourishes, boasting about his accomplishments and insulting his rivals and critics. He has called Rand Paul “a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain,”
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Immigration Reform Plan Would Be Unimaginably Expensive
Donald Trump released an immigration reform plan on Sunday with three “core principles,” the first of which is utterly unrealistic: to make Mexico, a country mired in
View ArticleTrump Is What You Make of It
Why am I here? That was the unescapable question facing me at 8 a.m. on Monday as I joined the dozens of reporters gathered at the New York State Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan to wait for Donald...
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