Jeet Heer
National Affairs Correspondent
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DemocratsYesterday 5:00 am
Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling?
Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.
Jeet Heer
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CultureApril 30, 2021
Philip Roth and His Defensive Fans Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Why did it take a sexual assault scandal to raise red flags about a deeply flawed biography?
Jeet Heer
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Arts and EntertainmentApril 7, 2021
Free Dr. Seuss!
Corporate ownership of his classic works shouldn’t prevent us from having a grown-up conversation about racism and children’s literature.
Jeet Heer
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InequalityMarch 23, 2021
Letters From the March 5/12, 2021, Issue
Along the Texas border… Leveling up… In the vicinity of bigotry (Web only)…
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CongressMarch 22, 2021
The Importance of Logging Off
How Neera Tanden’s hard-punching tweets knocked her right out of Joe Biden’s cabinet.
Jeet Heer
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March 19, 2021
A Mainstream Mass Murderer
Emerging evidence about the Atlanta shooter paints a picture of young man imbued with distressingly common American ideas about race and gender.
Jeet Heer
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DemocratsMarch 17, 2021
Bernie Sanders Is at the Apex of His Power
The stimulus bill shows how much Sanders has changed the Democratic Party on domestic policy. Foreign policy is the next hurdle.
Jeet Heer
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Foreign PolicyMarch 15, 2021
Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus
It is folly to use China as a bogeyman to help unite America and revive NATO.
Jeet Heer
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CultureMarch 12, 2021
In the Vicinity of Genius
How a friendship with Glenn Gould created an unlikely cultural critic.
Jeet Heer
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PoliticsMarch 10, 2021
A Fraud, Not a Lincoln
Liberals need a reckoning with the fortune they wasted on Never Trump charlatans.
Jeet Heer