The Best of The New Republic
10+ most popular The New Republic articles, as voted by our community.
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a magazine of interpretation and opinion for a rapidly changing world.
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The Frightening Cost of Cheap Eggs
Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic
The New Republic on Basic Income
Universal Basic Income and the Future of Pointless Work
Truly useful jobs are disappearing. Should we get paid for doing nothing?
The New Republic on Books
Agatha Christie Suspected Everyone
In the quaint, well-to-do worlds of her novels, anyone could be guilty. Murderers kill to beat the social order at its own game.
The Tyranny of the Clock
Jenny Odell wants us to forget hours, minutes, and seconds and live with a different sense of time.
The New Republic on Business
Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest
The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.
The Myth of the Socially Conscious Corporation
The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.
The New Republic on Gig Economy
Down and Out in the Gig Economy
Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention the writers themselves.
The New Republic on Greta Thunberg
The Misogyny of Climate Deniers
Why do right-wing men hate Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so much? Researchers have some troubling answers to that question.
The New Republic on Housing
More Building Won’t Make Housing Affordable
America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.
The New Republic on Knowledge
The Dream Job That Wasn’t
A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing what you love.”
«No one says to a horse, “If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.”»
The New Republic on Politics
The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom
Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.
The Gamification of Everything Is No Fun
Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics.
The New Republic on Sustainable Tourism
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The Rise of the Thought Leader
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
Inside the Elite, Underpaid, and Weird World of Crossword Writers
Efforts to diversify the industry might be having the opposite effect. And although puzzles are an important part of The New York Times’ business strategy, only a handful of people actually make a…
We Might Have Long Covid All Wrong
Some post-Covid symptoms may be produced by the brain. Does that make them any less real?
The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?
Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?
Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.
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