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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a contributing editor at the The New Republic.

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January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Charlie Hebdo continues to satirize racism with racist images.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
David Brooks decries Ted Cruz’s “tribalist” politics but engages in some of his own.
January 10, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sean Penn survived his encounter with El Chapo but Rolling Stone’s reputation is under threat.
January 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
Maine Governor Paul LePage shows how deep the GOP’s racism problem is.
January 2, 2016
Jeet Heer
George R.R. Martin starts 2016 by disappointing his fans.
December 30, 2015
Jeet Heer
Star Wars Films Are Not About Good vs. Evil. They’re About Bad Parenting.
For all their lofty narratives, the movies are the fruit of a single family tree.
December 23, 2015
Jeet Heer
Experts are arguing that Donald Trump’s “schlong” is no big deal.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ken Burns’s Star Wars would be Empire apologia.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Mitt Romney is learning to sub-tweet.
December 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
Stars Wars nostalgia also seems to include arguing about racism in Star Wars nostalgia.
December 16, 2015
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The GOP is the Party of Fear
How did fear come to loom so large in Republican rhetoric?
December 16, 2015
Jeet Heer
Rick Santorum declares World War III.
December 15, 2015
Jeet Heer
Conservatives Are Rewriting Star Wars as a Battle Against Terrorism
Is Luke Skywalker a jihadi?
December 1, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Is Not a Liar
He's something worse: a bullshit artist.
November 26, 2015
Jeet Heer
What Thanksgiving Says About America
A comparison with Canada's Thanksgiving reveals the national traits embedded in this secular holiday.
November 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Tucker Carlson hits a new low with his website's article on "hot" Syrian refugees.
November 13, 2015
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump has made a huge mistake.
November 10, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New Utopians
Kim Stanley Robinson and the novelists who want to build a better future through science fiction.
October 21, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Dangerous Motivation Behind Netanyahu's Holocaust Revisionism
September 28, 2015
Jeet Heer
Do Conservative Catholics Want a Divorce?

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