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Today: "Bari Weiss Has Thrown the CBS News Killswitch" Plus, Steve Bannon had photo of Trump and Ghislane Maxwell; Venezuela is on the verge of a humanitarian tragedy; what happens now that we’re going over the Obamacare cliff; and more... |
ACA marketplace enrollees are set to see their health insurance costs spike. But when premium tax credits expire, profound systemic shocks will be felt well beyond individual customers. |
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As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down. |
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These businessmen have shown no shame in kowtowing to the president—and he has richly rewarded their sycophancy. |
While the media sleeps, the beginning salvos of Trump’s regime change war is already pushing the nation into crisis. |
In a year defined by the newly lurid visibility of men’s problems, I was most moved by two series—Dying for Sex and Andor—that offered remarkable performances by women. |
TNR’s Monica Potts argues that Democrats shouldn’t focus on winning the working class or any specific bloc, but instead be "loud" on a few issues that resonate with the entire electorate. Read the transcript here. |
Right Now With Perry Bacon |
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To complement The New Republic’s January/February 2026 issue, "This Is Not America," our writers discuss Trump’s immigration policy and how communities are resisting, from refugees defying the administration’s orders to protests against ICE raids and the National Guard’s deployment in U.S. cities. |
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The Department of Justice has released a new trove of Epstein files. |
In a letter to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to reference his suicide plan—and mentioned Donald Trump. |
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The Department of Justice revealed federal investigators found additional evidence of Trump’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice. |
In 1995, 60 Minutes made a decision that nearly destroyed the program. Producers killed an interview with Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco industry whistleblower who had evidence that cigarette companies knew their products were addictive and carcinogenic. CBS’s lawyers were worried about a potential lawsuit, so the interview got shelved. The story eventually came out anyway, the lawyers’ fears proved overblown, and 60 Minutes spent years trying to rebuild its credibility. The whole debacle became the basis for The Insider, a 1999 film starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino that portrayed CBS executives as cowards who caved to corporate pressure at the expense of the public interest. It was, by any measure, a low point in the history of American broadcast journalism. On Sunday, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sent an internal memo to colleagues warning that CBS was repeating that history. The network had just killed her story about Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison, where they were allegedly tortured, beaten, and subjected to sexual violence. The segment had been promoted on social media for days. It had been screened five times. It had been cleared by CBS’s lawyers and its Standards and Practices division. It was, by all accounts, ready to air. |
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