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Jim Sleeper

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How "conservatives" became radicals — and learned to love big government

So much for drowning government in the bathtub: Today's right wants to make it big enough to drown us

13.05.2025 3

Salon

Jim Sleeper

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

So much for drowning government in the bathtub: Today's right wants to make it big enough to drown us

13.05.2025 8

Salon

Jim Sleeper

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

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before

17.02.2025 50

Salon

Jim Sleeper

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

Successful diplomats are duplicitous by craft, and, often by nature: They move, stealthily, beneath statesmen’s public phrases and grand...

17.11.2024 3

Salon

Jim Sleeper

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

David Brooks’ arrestingly headlined New York Times column —  “Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?” — contains a sentence that stopped me cold,...

10.11.2024 60

Salon

Jim Sleeper

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

In 2019, I interrupted private equity emperor Stephen Schwarzman as he addressed several hundred of his and my Yale classmates at our 50th-year...

05.11.2024 30

Salon

Jim Sleeper

Jonathan Holloway Was Far More Than Rutgers’s First Black President

Almost every media account of Jonathan Holloway’s announcement this week that he’ll resign as president of Rutgers, the State University of New...

20.09.2024 3

New Republic

Jim Sleeper

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

Like some other liberal Democrats who resisted warnings in July that President Biden should end his re-election bid, I pushed back against the...

23.08.2024 10

Salon

Jim Sleeper