Posts by Shopie Claire
Generation X’s Lessons For the Second Trump Era
A military incursion into Latin America. A war to control another country’s oil. A corrupt administration engineering spectacle (“We want a show”) to keep the public distracted. A visibly declining president whose background in acting and television turns governance into pantomime. A frozen economy. A pandemic roiling under the surface that the powerful would prefer…
Read MoreThe Red-State City That’s Doing Immigration Right
Some of these young women—part of a corps of thousands of young Mormons on assignment around the world, including the church’s own headquarters—sport U.S. flags, but on a recent weekday evening most did not, instead wearing flags from Malaysia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea, among others. As these international arrivals converge on Salt…
Read MoreVideo: The Biggest Questions We Have for 2026
New York Times editors across the newsroom share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind and look ahead to 2026. By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward Vega December 31, 2025 Source link
Read MoreStones
Little heaps, tangible witnesses, how much, in your design, your volume, whenever I get lost, you help me. Source link
Read MoreStones
Little heaps, tangible witnesses, how much, in your design, your volume, whenever I get lost, you help me. Source link
Read MoreStones
Little heaps, tangible witnesses, how much, in your design, your volume, whenever I get lost, you help me. Source link
Read MoreCognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
For the last year, the nation has witnessed President Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline. The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language. The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first…
Read MoreA Very Bari Christmas
One of the pleasures of working at a place like The New Republic is that every so often, something comes in over the transom that just delights us. This poem landed on my computer screen on a December Saturday. Who is this Clement Ogden Friendly? If you know anything about a) Christmas-related poetry, b) great…
Read MoreTrump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
Shortly after the raids on Home Depot parking lots and car washes began in L.A., civil and immigration rights groups filed a lawsuit accusing the administration of racially profiling Latino people. Notably, a federal judge ordered the government to stop, and arrests dropped dramatically. The Supreme Court eventually ordered a pause on that temporary restraining…
Read MoreDecember Was Deadliest Month in Deadliest Year in ICE Custody Deaths
“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home,” Epstein wrote in the alleged letter, appearing to reference his later death by suicide. “Good luck! We shared one thing… our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young,…
Read MoreHappy New Year! Trump Plans to Target Those With Student Debt in 2026
“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home,” Epstein wrote in the alleged letter, appearing to reference his later death by suicide. “Good luck! We shared one thing… our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young,…
Read MoreJD Vance Desperately Tries to Win Over Manosphere as Poll Numbers Tank
No, JD Vance will not be our first “Chad” president. The vice president shared a series of photographs to X Monday showing himself valiantly running physical training drills with Navy Seals at Base Coronado, in California. Vance was photographed running down the beach, carrying a heavy log, climbing a large cargo net, and even rowing.…
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