Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses  —  SAN FRANCISCO — North Korea's already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.

The NY Police Union's Vile War with Mayor De Blasio  —  To criticize the mayor for telling his black son what every other father of a black youth must say is divisive and fails to see what's wrong in America.  —  I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between …

Rep. Michael Grimm to plead guilty to felony count of tax evasion, sources say  —  The Staten Island Republican was charged in a 20-count indictment with hiding more than $1 million in income and wages at a Manhattan restaurant he co-owned  —  Rep. Michael Grimm will plead guilty on Tuesday …

Singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70  —  Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70.  —  The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong.

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …

How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …

Slimy Baltimore FOX Affiliate Caught Faking “Kill a Cop” Protest Chant  —  Last night, Baltimore's WBFF aired a video of protesters chanting “kill a cop"- evidence, it claimed, of murderously violent rhetoric on the part of anti-brutality protesters in Washington, D.C. The only problem?

Dixie rising  —  How the Deep South is trying to game the GOP primary.  —  The Deep South has elected Republicans to every top office in the region.  Now it wants to be sure that clout extends to the choice of the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee.  —  Officials in five Southern states …

How do Americans feel about reestablishing relations with Cuba?  —  Shares -  —  In the wake of President Obama's surprise announcement of an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 54 percent of Americans approve of reestablishing both diplomatic …

A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Behold the Worst Anti-Gun Commercial in American History  —  This is almost certainly the worst anti-gun commercial in the history of the United States:  —  One can only imagine that the spot's producers consider their set up to be inordinately clever.  “Hey,” you can almost hear them say …

Senator Blames His Own Constituents For NYC Cop Killing  —  A Republican senator attributed the assassination-style killing of two NYC police officers to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri following the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.  —  Appearing on KMBZ in Kansas City on Monday …

Study: ‘White’ Southerners have more African ancestry than they know  —  Many Americans who call themselves white might be surprised to find out that they have some African ancestry.  Especially in the South.  —  In a new study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics …

How Vermont's single-payer health care dream fell apart  —  It was Friday, December 12, when Robin Lunge began worrying that Vermont's single-payer plan was doomed.  —  Lunge, Gov. Peter Shumlin's director of health reform, had spent weeks trying to make the math work for a a public health insurance plan …

Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.