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October 16, 2026
Where Is the Outrage Over Trump’s Racist Targeting of Ilhan Omar?
Jeet Heer
The establishment press and some Democrats are strangely mute over the president’s flagrant abuse of the legal system.
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October 14, 2026
The Real AI Threat Is Already Here
Jeet Heer
Never mind some future apocalypse—AI is being used right now to cause enormous suffering.
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October 12, 2026
Elon Musk’s James Talarico Smear Blew Up In His Face
Jeet Heer
But that doesn’t mean the danger from Musk’s lies is over.
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October 9, 2026
Does America First Really Mean Israel First?
Jeet Heer
Mike Huckabee’s aide shows how an extremist agenda dominates Trump’s Middle East policy.
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October 5, 2026
The Death Penalty Has Become a Torture Machine
Jeet Heer
Christa Pike's botched lethal injection proves there is no humane form of execution.
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September 28, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle Is a Master of Mafia Diplomacy
Jeet Heer
The US Ambassador to Greece is making suspicious deals for her buddies.
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September 25, 2026
Susan Collins Is Corrupt. She Still Might Be Reelected.
Jeet Heer
Despite being embroiled in scandal, the Maine senator is benefiting from Democratic Party divisions.
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September 21, 2026
Even Republicans Are Figuring Out That Pete Hegseth Is a Disaster
Jeet Heer
Hegseth was always a horrible choice for defense secretary. At long last, some in the GOP are admitting it.
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September 18, 2026
Why Aren’t We Talking About the Warmongering Lies of Mike Rogers?
Jeet Heer
The media’s relentless focus on Hasan Piker allows the dishonest GOP hawk (and actual Michigan Senate candidate) to evade scrutiny.
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September 14, 2026
MAGA Is Exploiting the Lindsay Clancy Case to Try to End Voting for Women
Jeet Heer
As Trump subverts elections, his most ardent fans want to overturn the 19th Amendment.
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September 11, 2026
Accountability for the Gaza Genocide Can’t Focus on Netanyahu Alone
Jeet Heer
Getting rid of one bad leader won’t bring justice.
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September 8, 2026
In Trump’s Mafia, Even Goons Can Do Billion-Dollar Shakedowns
Jeet Heer
Corey Lewandowski is a disposable underling, but he’s protected enough to scorn the law.
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September 4, 2026
Maria Bartiromo Was Fired For the Wrong Reason
Jeet Heer
For Fox News, blind servility to Trump is fine until it hits the bottom line.
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August 31, 2026
While Losing a Real War, Pete Hegseth Is Building a Troll Army
Jeet Heer
The defense secretary is more comfortable around influencers than with seasoned generals.
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August 28, 2026
How Many Fascist Cronies Can One Republican Have?
Jeet Heer
Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins seems determined to answer that question.
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August 24, 2026
How Jared Kushner Snookered Hakeem Jeffries
Jeet Heer
Democrats need a fighter, but the congressional leader is addicted to illusory comity.
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August 21, 2026
Natalie Harp Is the High Priestess of the Cult of Trump
Jeet Heer
The controversial White House isn’t the only Trump sycophant—merely the most successful.
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August 17, 2026
Is America in the Grip of a Foreign Power?
Jeet Heer, Katrina vanden Heuvel
A vital discussion on the state of the Israel lobby.
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August 17, 2026
Trump's Loose Grip on Reality Could Sink the Navy's Ships
Jeet Heer
The dire conditions on the USS Lincoln are due to a president dangerously detached from what's actually happening in the world.
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August 14, 2026
Jared Kushner Finds Trouble in a Gangster's Paradise
Jeet Heer
The Trump princeling’s deal with alleged mobsters illustrates the depths of MAGA corruption.
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August 10, 2026
The Right’s New Inflation Message: Let Them Eat Ramen
Jeet Heer
Militarists push for austerity to keep a disastrous war going.
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July 31, 2026
Trump’s Caribbean Killing Spree Is a Feckless, Criminal Failure
Jeet Heer
Blowing up innocent fishermen hasn’t curbed the drug trade.
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July 27, 2026
Trump Humiliated a Submissive Mainstream Media at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Jeet Heer
His speech was racist, homophobic, vindictive, and soul-crushingly unfunny—and the journalists in the crowd didn’t seem to care.
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July 24, 2026
The Saudi Nuclear Deal Is a Typical Trump Fiasco
Jeet Heer
Yet again, the president trumpets a foreign policy agreement steeped in recklessness, lies, and corruption.
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July 20, 2026
Why Andrew Tate Is a MAGA Superstar
Jeet Heer
Manosphere celebrities—including alleged sexual predators like Tate—are a symptom of a politically resurgent misogyny.
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