The New Republic

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.

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

Some were better than others...

Paper ship by Yulia Brodskaya

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

Photos by Maciek Jasik

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

One of our favorite sentences we've ever published. 

The fighting has been raging for months.

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

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.

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.

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.

Illustration by Peter Oumanski.

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

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

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.