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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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January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley Will Be Responding to Trump, not Obama
The South Carolina governor is the GOP's answer to Trumpism—but it's not enough.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
David Brooks decries Ted Cruz’s “tribalist” politics but engages in some of his own.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Iowa Will Not Be Donald Trump’s Waterloo
Despite the pundits' almost universal predictions, the mogul and his white identity politics can weather a few losses.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Rupert Murdoch’s love life is worthy of a soap opera.
January 10, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sean Penn survived his encounter with El Chapo but Rolling Stone’s reputation is under threat.
January 9, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Republican Party is running the first X-rated presidential primary in American history.
January 8, 2016
Jeet Heer
Welcome to this world, Roy Batty.
January 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Maine Governor Paul LePage shows how deep the GOP’s racism problem is.
January 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz Is All Alone
Now that he has fallen out of favor with Donald Trump, the Texas senator is left to fend for himself.
January 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz wields a mean lightsaber.
January 6, 2016
Jeet Heer
The world’s most prestigious cartooning festival is facing a boycott over sexism.
January 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz’s anti-Obama ad plays on old wartime paranoia.
January 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is no longer the most extreme GOP candidate on immigration.
January 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Marco Rubio might be in the wrong business.
January 5, 2016
Jeet Heer
Republican Intellectuals Still Don’t Get Donald Trump
He's winning the voters that GOP reformers yearn for—but with racism and xenophobia, not policy ideas.
January 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
Chris Christie once had a bromance with President Obama but doesn’t really know him.
January 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
The New York Public Library has William Faulkner smut, but you have to dig for it.
January 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump’s first campaign ad promises blood for oil.
January 3, 2016
Jeet Heer
Grover Norquist has a sizzling hot Star Wars take.
January 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
George R.R. Martin starts 2016 by disappointing his fans.

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