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Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.  

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January 27, 2016
Alex Shephard
Watch these Trump bros bro out about Trump.
January 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Martin O’Malley still has to remind everyone what his name is.
January 15, 2016
Alex Shephard
As one leader falls, another rises.
January 14, 2016
Alex Shephard
Maybe George Miller will direct another Mad Max movie after all.
January 13, 2016
Alex Shephard
The 2016 Razzie nominations are here.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
David Bowie was funny.
January 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
A suicide bomber and suspected ISIS member has killed at least 10 people in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet historical district.
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes monologue: self-congratulation interrupted by the occasional trans joke.
January 5, 2016
Alex Shephard
VICE News correspondent Mohammed Rasool has been released from Turkish prison.
January 4, 2016
Alex Shephard
The owner of the Phoenix Suns thinks his team is bad because millennials are bad.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Karl Knausgaard saw a brain.
December 30, 2015
Alex Shephard
Report: An arrest warrant has been issued for Bill Cosby for an alleged 2004 sexual assault.
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
Everybody wants the new Yeezys, even though they look like common leopard slugs.
December 28, 2015
Alex Shephard
2,000 teenagers probably did not riot in a Louisville mall on Saturday.
December 28, 2015
Alex Shephard
Forget adult coloring books, adult connect-the-dots books are going to be all the rage in 2016.
December 26, 2015
Alex Shephard
Barnes & Noble’s new strategy: Get people drunk.
December 25, 2015
Alex Shephard
Today’s NBA games, ranked.
December 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Ben Carson is having another weird debate night.
December 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Civilian casualties in the fight against ISIS? Trump, Cruz, and Carson respond with ambivalence—at best.
December 15, 2015
Alex Shephard
Like everyone else, reporters at Nevada’s largest newspaper would like to know who just bought Nevada’s largest newspaper for $140 million.

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