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Jim Sleeper

Jim Sleeper is the author of "Liberal Racism" (1997) and "The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York" (1990).

US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hurricane Helene recovery briefing in a hangar at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, North Carolina, on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

How “conservatives” became radicals — and learned to love big government

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Augustus Caesar in a MAGA red hat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Donald Trump more like Hitler or Augustus Caesar? Honestly, it’s both

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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol, March 30, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Elise Stefanik’s audience of one: How anti-woke showboating got her the UN job

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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

More than racism or sexism it was corporatism: What Democrats must learn from Kamala Harris’ defeat

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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) delivers opening remarks at the beginning of a policy forum with business leaders chaired by Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman in the State Dining Room at the White House February 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump and the money men: Billionaires are repeating the Hitler mistake

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On the U.S. Presidential campaign trail stopping in battleground states, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak to Nevada voters at University of Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday August 10, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Kamala Harris practices the post-racial politics we’ve been waiting for

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The first landing of the Pilgrims, 1620. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Israel and the Puritans: A dangerous historical romance

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony to receive credentials from foreign ambassadors to Russia at the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on September 20, 2022. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin really could fall — but will that help the West as much as we think?

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Rudy Giuliani (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Was Rudy Giuliani drunk on election night? Maybe so — but that’s not why he’s dangerous

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Dozens of people attend a vigil remembering the 58 people killed in Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas and calling for action against guns on October 4, 2017 in Newtown, Connecticut. The vigil, organized by the Newtown Action Alliance, was held outside the National Shooting Sport Foundation and looked to draw attention to gun violence in America. Twenty school children were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown on December 14, 2012. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Gun violence, neoliberalism and Citizens United: We can’t change things without facing the truth

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (MIKHAIL TERESHCHENKO/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

We must defeat the enemies of democracy — but that doesn’t just mean Putin

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A view of damage due to armed conflict between Russia, Ukraine in Donetsk region under the control of pro-Russian separatists, eastern Ukraine on February 28, 2022. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Too much reality: Putin’s Ukraine invasion summons Europe’s dark past

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Federal officers walk through tear gas during a dispersal of about 300 protesters in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention building on August 26, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests continued for the 91st night in Portland as activist called for solidarity with rallies in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

The Rittenhouse syndrome: Has America crossed the Rubicon?

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Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Yale’s failed Singapore venture: More American arrogance in Asia

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Henry Kissinger, Charles Hill and George Shultz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/U.S. Navy/Eric Dietrich)

What “politics” does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz’s right-hand man

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Then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announcing his candidacy for governor alongside his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, on May 22, 2010 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Like father, like son? Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo and the Supreme Court seat that never was

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President Donald J. Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trumpism isn’t “history”: But our blindness to history could lead to its comeback

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Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Some of us saw this coming — but we were assured Donald Trump was no big deal

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Jim Jordan, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are the Trumpers headed for history’s dumpster? Don’t count on it

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Former President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Corporate capital and Trump’s coup: Will business elites take a stand?

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A tattered American flag (Getty Images)

Whatever happens this week, our democracy and open society are in critical condition

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Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Trump blame McConnell for blocking a new stimulus?

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President Donald Trump meets with Dr. Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office at the White House, Oct. 10, 2017. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s dodgy Israel-UAE “peace deal” smells like the work of Henry Kissinger

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Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Andrew Cuomo vs. Donald Trump: Two guys from Queens fight it out amid a disaster

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