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The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time

Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.

By The New Republic

 

Readers’ Poll: What Are the Most Significant Political Films of All Time?

The critics have weighed in. Now it’s your turn.

By The New Republic

 

TNR Staffers on 15 Great Political Films Missing From the Critics’ List

Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions

By The New Republic

 

What Is a “Political Film,” Anyway?

It’s about revolution. Or elections. It can be a thriller. Or a comedy. It’s a movie whose politics we love. It’s a movie whose politics we detest. It’s even, sometimes, a zombie movie.

By J. Hoberman

 

Features

 

The Right’s New Post-Dobbs Panacea: The Baby Safe Deposit Box

To the right, it’s a “clean” alternative to abortion—mothers can just drop their babies off in fire station boxes. And it’s spreading across the country. How did a desperate and once criminal act get turned into a good thing?

By Maria Laurino

 

Their Kids Died of Fentanyl Overdoses. Republicans Can’t Wait to Exploit It.

Grieving parents are at risk of becoming mere props in the latest chapter of America's twisted war on drugs.

By Zachary Siegel

 
 

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State of the Nation

So Trump Is Dodging Questions About a Federal Abortion Ban. Hold Your Applause.

Some people think the GOP is retreating from abortion bans because they’re unpopular. If only.

By Melissa Gira Grant

 

The Rise of Independent Voters Is a Myth

A recent poll found that nearly half of Americans identify as independent. But they’re hiding the real truth about how they vote.

By Alex Shephard

 

Who Said It: Steve Bannon or Jack Donaghy?

When the anti-elitist rhetoric of the privileged all sounds the same

By The New Republic

 

Books & The Arts

Where Does the South Begin?

A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.

By Scott W. Stern

 

Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reckoning With Cold War Deceptions

Kairos is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.

By Rumaan Alam

 

Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things

I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.

By Maggie Doherty

 

The Plan to Split Democracies Into Tiny Pieces

From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.

By Andre Pagliarini

 

The Right’s Campus Culture War Machine

How conservatives built a formidable network for ginning up scandal in higher education

By Claire Potter

 

The Other Two Captures the Strangeness of Social Media Stardom

No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.

By Phillip Maciak

 

Res Publica

Black Cat or White Cat

Which will catch the most mice?

By Win McCormack

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