“For some time now,” wrote the author in 2015, “it has been Israeli leaders who’ve never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and Liberal Racism.
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Kavanaugh’s Youth Was Bad Enough. His Career Was Even Worse.
Trump’s Supreme Court pick follows a familiar pattern of bad boys who grow up to do bad things.
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The Connecticut Dem Showing How to Be Pro-Business and Pro-Labor
Ned Lamont has displayed a heterodox balancing of entrepreneurship and worker’s advocacy.
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It Can Happen Here
Don’t underestimate the depths to which Donald Trump and his enablers will go to punish their political enemies.
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The Hidden Motivations of Robert Mueller
The special counsel was trained from boyhood as a public citizen and leader. That makes him and Donald Trump a study in contrasts.
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The End of Stanley McChrystal’s War on Poverty
In the 2000s, neocons tried nation-building abroad while dismantling the nation at home. Trump is ending the former, but continuing the latter.
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What John McCain Really Showed Us
By admonishing his colleagues to work together for the good of the country, McCain showed why we shouldn’t write off his character and credibility.
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The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Free-Speech Conservatives
Republicans who accuse college students of hampering free speech should actually practice what they preach.
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Why Yale Should Shun Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman
The university has the wealth to repudiate this Trump-supporting plutocrat.
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When Resisting Means Risking
I resisted the Vietnam War as a college student. Here’s what it taught me about stopping Trump.
