Jeet Heer

National Affairs Correspondent

@HeerJeet

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The GuardianThe New Republic, and The Boston Globe.

A man takes a photo of the sun in a blood orange sky during the West Coast fires

Fires Prove the Climate Catastrophe Is a Constitutional Crisis Too Fires Prove the Climate Catastrophe Is a Constitutional Crisis Too

The Electoral College and the Senate both marginalize states that are the hardest hit by climate change.

Sep 14, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward’s Accidental Scoop Bob Woodward’s Accidental Scoop

Once an investigative journalist, Woodward is now just a court historian.

Sep 11, 2020 / Jeet Heer

A closeup image of Donald Trump standing in front of a microphone

Trump’s Fake Anti-War Posturing Works for Him Trump’s Fake Anti-War Posturing Works for Him

Democrats have ceded opposition to the military-industrial complex to a belligerent fraud.

Sep 9, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Trump’s Vile Military Comments Are a Window Into His Soul

Trump’s Vile Military Comments Are a Window Into His Soul Trump’s Vile Military Comments Are a Window Into His Soul

As disturbing as they are, Trump’s dismissals of dead soldiers as “losers” are more about personality than politics.

Sep 7, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Mark Zuckerberg Has Set Our Democracy On Fire

Mark Zuckerberg Has Set Our Democracy On Fire Mark Zuckerberg Has Set Our Democracy On Fire

The Facebook boss is trying to recast himself as a defender of democracy—but his actions belie his promises.

Sep 4, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Donald Trump

Trump’s Paranoia Commands the Government Trump’s Paranoia Commands the Government

Too often dismissed as a personal quirk, Trump’s promotion of conspiracy theories is a major threat to democracy.

Sep 2, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Samson Bringing Down the Temple

Trump Embraces the Samson Option Trump Embraces the Samson Option

Inciting violence may not win Trump the election. But it still advances his agenda.

Aug 31, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Death Was the Theme of Both the RNC and the DNC

Death Was the Theme of Both the RNC and the DNC Death Was the Theme of Both the RNC and the DNC

Both parties are responding to the fact that America is being shadowed by death in a way it hasn’t been since the great wars of the last century.

Aug 28, 2020 / Jeet Heer

America’s Holy War Comes to the RNC

America’s Holy War Comes to the RNC America’s Holy War Comes to the RNC

Biden’s religion of good works is battling Trump’s Christian nationalism.

Aug 27, 2020 / Jeet Heer

The RNC’s Pitch to Black America Is Not Just Ridiculous—It’s Sick

The RNC’s Pitch to Black America Is Not Just Ridiculous—It’s Sick The RNC’s Pitch to Black America Is Not Just Ridiculous—It’s Sick

The GOP tries to peel off voters of color while Tucker Carlson calls for a race war.

Aug 26, 2020 / Jeet Heer

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