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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and former staff writer for The New Republic.

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February 3, 2016
Jeet Heer
Who’s the Ugly Loser Now?
Donald Trump can't accept defeat gracefully. That will hurt him at the polls.
February 3, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bernie Sanders is funnier than his imitators.
February 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
New York Values Are at the Heart of the American Political Divide
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have challenged their parties by embodying two sides of the Big Apple.
February 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump once again proves Twitter is a great medium for pouting.
February 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sanders, Clinton, and a Democratic House Divided
Iowa Democrats were split down the middle, but the caucuses showed that Sanders is winning the battle of ideas and moving the party to the left.
February 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bernie Sanders understands sartorial choices are crucial to populism.
February 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Is Ben Carson’s campaign an elaborate scam?
February 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Even Sarah Palin admits Donald Trump isn’t very “Christian-y.”
February 1, 2016
Jeet Heer
Iowa Is the First Test of the Sanders Revolution
The state is a crucial proving ground for his vision of bringing new voters into the political process.
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
Spinning an Iowa defeat is an art form in itself.
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump takes Iowa pandering to new lows.
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
The RINO-hunter is now the RINO-hunted.
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
Are Trump and Sanders fueled by a nostalgia for the future?
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
A book endorsement reveals Bernie Sanders’s Obama dilemma.
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
Folk music is Bernie Sanders’s secret Achilles’ heel.
January 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Wants You to Believe He’s the Commander-in-Chief in Waiting
January 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump will always says what he’s not about to say.
January 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump has turned Fox News’s populism against itself.
January 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump has turned the GOP primaries into the planet of the apes.
January 28, 2016
Jeet Heer
Stalin might have been a scatologist who studied the stool of a fellow dictator.

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