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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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July 17, 2026
Trump’s Election Fraud Speech Was a Sick Joke—and a Threat
Jeet Heer
Not even Fox News buys Trump’s new lies, but they will be used to undermine the midterms.
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July 13, 2026
Lindsey Graham Chose Evil
Jeet Heer
Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.
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July 10, 2026
The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment
Jeet Heer
Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that’s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors.
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July 6, 2026
How Zohran Mamdani Saved the Fourth of July
Jeet Heer
The mayor’s fighting patriotism bested Trump’s rantings and Obama’s evasions.
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June 29, 2026
For Larry Ellison, Buying Trump Is the Bargain of the Century
Jeet Heer
The billionaire has gotten media dominance and cozy government deals for what amounts to chicken feed.
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June 26, 2026
Establishment Democrats Are Embracing Loserdom
Jeet Heer
Some centrists would rather have Trump triumph than forge an alliance with the left.
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June 22, 2026
Free-Speech Fraud Bari Weiss Would Rather Deport Than Debate
Jeet Heer
As anti-war politics gain ground, Weiss's Free Press is pushing to remove Trita Parsi from the US.
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