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April 3, 2026
Pete Hegseth Is Scapegoating Career Soldiers for His Own Failures
Jeet Heer
Trapped in a disastrous war, the defense secretary is intensifying a purge of the military.
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April 2, 2026
Trump’s Iran Speech Showed the Desperation of a Loser
Jeet Heer
The president’s war is an ever-escalating disaster. He is increasingly reviled. And his speech won’t change either of those things.
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March 30, 2026
Pete Hegseth’s Holy War Is an Unholy Nightmare
Jeet Heer
The defense secretary is talking about Iran in bloodcurdling tones of religious extremism—and underscoring how much of a dangerous fanatic he is.
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March 27, 2026
The Politicians Won’t Stop This War. Only the People Can.
Jeet Heer
The No Kings movement needs to become a mass anti-war movement.
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March 22, 2026
Robert Mueller Never Should Have Been a Liberal Hero
Jeet Heer
The cult of Mueller foolishly prioritized legal prosecution over political organizing.
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March 20, 2026
Will the Iran War Destroy MAGA?
Jeet Heer
Trump’s coalition is splintering over nationalism and Israel.
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March 16, 2026
Canada’s Left Is in Crisis. Can Avi Lewis Revive It?
Jeet Heer
As Mark Carney’s deceptive centrism pushes the country to the right, Avi Lewis offers a compelling alternative.
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March 13, 2026
The Iran War Is Spurring Global Anger at America
Jeet Heer
Trump’s reckless and unnecessary conflict is hurting allies as well as foes.
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March 12, 2026
Is AIPAC Doomed?
Jeet Heer
The hard-line pro-Israel lobby is facing more opposition than ever before. But fully defanging it won’t be easy.
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March 11, 2026
What Is Mark Carney Really Offering the World?
Jeet Heer
The Canadian prime minister has put himself forward as one of the sharpest Western critics of Trump’s neo-imperial order. What’s less clear is what he’s offering in its stead.
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March 9, 2026
Trump’s War Is Destroying the Global Economy
Jeet Heer
Spiraling financial chaos might be the only thing that can force the president to pull back from this conflict.
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March 6, 2026
A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War
Jeet Heer
Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders.
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March 2, 2026
Trump and Netanyahu Want to Turn Iran Into a Failed State
Jeet Heer
This war looks designed to cause maximum chaos and instability. The world will pay a high price.
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February 24, 2026
The State of the Union Will Be Even Worse Than Trump’s Polling Numbers
Jeet Heer
What’s a flopping demagogue to do? Lash out at his enemies, pretend he’s doing great, and bore us all into submission.
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February 23, 2026
Trump’s Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than Iraq
Jeet Heer
Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.
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February 20, 2026
Why Trump Is Trying to Steal Jesse Jackson’s Glory
Jeet Heer
The president wants you to know he had a Black friend, sort of.
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February 6, 2026
From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core
Jeet Heer
Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.
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February 2, 2026
How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy
Jeet Heer
The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.
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January 30, 2026
Tulsi Gabbard’s Georgia Raid Is a Pretext for Future Election Intimidation
Jeet Heer
Trump wants to rewrite the 2020 election in order to fix the 2026 and 2028 results.
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January 29, 2026
The Cartoonist, the Director, and the Sex Workers
Jeet Heer
Sook-Yin Lee’s new romantic comedy, Paying for It, explores Platonic love and prostitution.
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January 26, 2026
MAGA Is Proving How Little It Actually Cares About Gun Rights
Jeet Heer
The ability to kill dissidents at will is more important to Trump and his supporters than the Second Amendment.
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January 23, 2026
Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough.
Jeet Heer
The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative.
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January 12, 2026
Renee Good’s Killing Has Unleashed MAGA’s Misogyny
Jeet Heer
To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors.
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