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The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens

How Tumblr's most popular teen comedy geniuses struck it rich—then lost it all.

That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16.

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These are the 100 thinkers—ranging from James Brown to Walter Benjamin—whose work and passion has changed the world as we know it.

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Here's Every New Republic Cover Redesign in Our 100-Year History

Some were better than others...

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The little ship that's served as our mascot has a very storied history. It's inspired by Walt Whitman, in fact....

Paper ship by Yulia Brodskaya

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The Judicial System in Eastern Ukraine Has Basically Turned iInto Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

People are being put to death by a show of hands.

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The Science of Suffering

Kids are inheriting their parents' trauma. Can science stop it?

Photos by Maciek Jasik

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Obama Is Having a Really Good Week for a Lame Duck President

Deadly diseases outbreak under control? Check. Historic climate treaty with world's biggest polluter? Check.

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So, so true. 

One of our favorite sentences we've ever published. 

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We're Done Pretending a Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire Ever Existed

The fighting has been raging for months.

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Let's Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses Do

Abortion isn't about fetuses. It's about women. Time to change the conversation.

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In honor of Veterans Day, a glimpse into a candid, vivid soldier's diary to show what it was really like fighting in World War II.

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In 1998, The New Republic's Stephen Glass committed what might be the most elaborate fraud in journalistic history. He nearly destroyed this magazine. Now, he's explained to us why he did it—and what his new life is like.

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NEW COVER: Celebrating our 100th anniversary with our biggest issue, ever!

Plus, stories from Michael Lewis, Hendrik Hertzberg, Hanna Rosin, Noam Scheiber, Cynthia Ozick, Helen Vendler, Dahlia Lithwick, Franklin Foer, Rebecca Traister, Judith Shulevitz, and more.

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"Thus all [Frederick Douglass’s] life he had to fall back upon what was fundamental in his experience, remembering that the key to his basic identity lay neither in books, nor in white men’s minds, but in the slavery-scars on his back."  - Ralph Ellison, in our list of the very best sentences we've published in the past 100 years. 

Illustration by Peter Oumanski.

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The Senate's New Environmental Leader Thinks Michael Crichton Is a Climate Expert

Jim Inhofe made other senators read the author's climate change-denying novel.

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Here's a sneak peek into our beautiful (gigantic!) 100th anniversary issue, which rolls out next week...

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25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, our foreign policy needs to go back to the 1940s if we want to contain Russia.