The Best of The New Republic
20+ 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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Stop Calling It “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Dread.
The phrase “climate dread” better legitimizes the real and tangible threat coming toward us.
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 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 Long Covid
We Might Have Long Covid All Wrong
Some post-Covid symptoms may be produced by the brain. Does that make them any less real?
«Functional disorder is not voluntary. People are not doing it to themselves. That’s just the way the brain is reacting to their particular situation»
The New Republic on Mobility
Make Parking Impossible
Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.
The Invention of “Accidents”
Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?
The New Republic on Politics
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.
Fear the Wrath of the TikTok Voter
As lawmakers in Washington ponder banning the app, they could be courting a substantial backlash from a key voting bloc—and one party could suffer the brunt of it.
The New Republic on Real Estate
The Real Estate Hustle-Culture Con That’s Exploiting Investors and Wrecking the Housing Market
A lawsuit filed against “influencer” Grant Cardone offers an inside look at a get-rich-quick scheme that could help enable the next housing market crash.
The New Republic on Self Discovery
The Tyranny of Personality Testing
The inventors of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator saw it as a path to self-discovery—and a tool of workplace management.
The New Republic on Sustainable Tourism
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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…
The Rise of the Thought Leader
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
How Do You Control 1.4 Billion People?
China's social credit system, which becomes mandatory in 2020, aims to funnel all behavior into a credit score.
Why Remote Work Sucks
It makes you hate your co-workers, and it makes your boss want to fire you.
The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
Danger surrounded Freud in Nazi-occupied Austria. Why did it take him so long to see it?
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