Jeet Heer

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The president's attacks on the tech giant are luring anti-monopoly liberals, but he will only hurt the cause.

Why campaigning against the president is the wrong way to defeat Republicans in this year's midterm elections

Hope Hicks was never an answer to Trump's capriciousness—she was always only a symptom of it.

The president's attacks on Amazon aren't of much concern to big-business Republicans. In fact, they're indulging him.

Lacking strong arguments, conservatives have taken to labeling students as bullies and liars.

What’s happening to the GOP’s global affairs brain trust?

A conversation about the language the media uses for people at the intersection of sex work and politics

John Bolton, the new national security advisor, is a radical nationalist—and has the skills to make Trump's foreign policy fantasies a reality.

America's most popular cable news network has become the real "platform of the alt-right"

Why actress Cynthia Nixon is being attacked for running against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

What Republicans really learned from Nixon's Watergate scandal

Is unplugging from the news a rational solution or an abnegation of civic responsibility?

Trump's story about inventing facts in a conversation with Canada's Justin Trudeau reveals the depth of his pathology.

The Republicans' excuses for their likely loss in Pennsylvania don't hold up to scrutiny.

Rex Tillerson may have been the most ineffective secretary of state, ever. But his chosen replacement, Mike Pompeo, is an extreme hawk.

Why Monica Lewinsky was widely vilified and Stormy Daniels has been praised or ignored

Trump's policy ideas are often more sensible than his party's, but he lacks the expertise and support to implement them.

They're biased toward naturalism in movies, rather than bizarro versions of the real world.