Franklin Foer
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Past articles by Franklin:
How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality
The perils of monopoly. → Read More
New Evidence, and Competing Theories, About the Trump Server That Appeared to Be Communicating With a Russian Bank
On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually confi ... → Read More
A Group of Computer Scientists Believes a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank
The greatest miracle of the internet is that it exists—the second greatest is that it persists. Every so often we’re reminded that bad actors wield gre ... → Read More
The DNC Hack Is Watergate—but Much Worse
A foreign government has hacked a political party’s computers—and possibly an election. It has stolen documents and timed their release to explode with ... → Read More
The Real Winner of the RNC: Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump’s convention has been marked by gross incompetence in all areas save one: He’s been highly effective in moving the Republican Party toward ... → Read More
Vladimir Putin Has a Plan for Destroying the West—and It Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump
Yesterday, Donald Trump told the New York Times that he would not necessarily come to the aid of NATO states threatened by Russia and would make his de ... → Read More
If You Don’t Think Paul Manafort Can Get Trump Elected, You Don’t Know Paul Manafort
Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace, is impressive by the standards of Palm Beach—less so when judged against the abodes of the world’s autocrats. It doe ... → Read More
Donald Trump Has One Core Philosophy: Misogyny
Donald Trump holds one core belief. It’s not limited government. He favored a state takeover of health care before he was against it. Nor is it economi ... → Read More
Brain Trust
In 1994, the eminent evangelical historian Mark Noll wrote a scorching polemic about his own religion called The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. The book lamented the “intellectual disaster of fundamentalism” and its toll on evangelical political and theological thought. All around him, Noll saw “a weakness for treating the verses of the Bible as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that needed only to be… → Read More
Franklin Foer: Is Jeb Bush rising?
Thanks to Chris Christie’s attack during Saturday’s GOP debate, nobody can consider Marco Rubio a fait accompli. That just might leave an opportunity for Jeb to find a way to the nomination. → Read More
Marion Barry Was a Historic Figure Who Couldn't Admit He Was History
He may have seemed like a political Lazarus, but his comebacks were nothing extraordinary. → Read More
The Story of How The New Republic Invented Modern Liberalism
In honor of our 100th anniversary, the history of our founding. → Read More
Amazon Must Be Stopped
It's too big. It's cannibalizing the economy. It's time for a radical plan. → Read More
Ferguson's Lesson: Local Government Poses the Real Threat to Liberty
They're stampeding people's rights—because they can. → Read More
Let the Kids Stay
A comprehensive case for compassion. → Read More
Was This the Last Great World Cup?
It wasn't a perfect tournament, but we're going to like it a lot better than the dark age that now awaits → Read More
Brazil-Germany: Luiz Scolari Taught His Team to Play Scared
Corruption and European clubs are sapping the country's talent. But it was their coach who ensured that this team played scared. → Read More
This World Cup was the Start of Something Great for Soccer in America
Was that exciting, America? Well, good—you better get used to it. → Read More
Aboard TAM Flight 3805: Surviving Brazil vs. Chile While In Flight
"Please stay in your seat with your seat belt fastened" does not apply when Brazil and Chile go to penalties. → Read More
Bravo, Klinsmann. And Look Out, Belgium!
It wasn't pretty, but we cheated (the Group of) Death → Read More