TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.

Love can move fast – and so, apparently, can the first date. Forget long waits and white tablecloths at a fancy eatery. For a growing number of singles, romance is kicking off somewhere between the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to send U.S. forces ...

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit “blood rain”, ...

Amid the partial government shutdown, at least 61,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents are going without pay. Regardless, the employees, who are considered essential workers, have ...

Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, observed by fasting from sunrise to sunset. The month involves increased prayer, including a special nightly prayer called Taraweeh. Certain ...

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A hard rain is going to fall. Dust plumes, whipped up by winds over the Sahara Desert, are moving over western Europe. This annual phenomenon—known in Spanish as “La Calima,” which literally ...

Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” about a Wall Street lawyer’s clerk who decides to decline his duties with the words “I would prefer not to,” might not seem a natural fit for ...

As Muslims fast from food and drink from sunrise to sundown during Ramadan, one fruit is an important part of breaking the fast each day: the sweet date. Hana Baba of KALW in the Bay Area of ...