What's Left with Zeeshan Aleem

Explaining the baffling Trump-Mamdani White House meeting

The art of the socialist deal.

Nov 22 • 

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Zohran and us

On parties, scrambling identity politics, and DSA.

Nov 20 • 

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August 2025

How to pull off a genocide in broad daylight

What Israel and the West’s deflections reveal.

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

A betrayal of the mind

A.I. isn't ushering in a new Enlightenment. It's subverting it.

Jul 30 • 

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I know exactly what the racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani are meant to do

Multiculturalism and democracy are intimately interconnected.

Jul 7 • 

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June 2025

Zohran's socialism is key to understanding his victory

It is a misread to think of his campaign as mere "popularism."

Jun 27 • 

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May 2025

The fog of ‘Warfare’ and the Real Arab test

The haunting impenetrability of Iraq in US cinema

May 16 • 

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March 2025

We ought to be talking about what JD Vance actually said in the Signal chat

As national security principals debated bombing Yemen, the true nature of America First was revealed.

Mar 28 • 

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January 2025

Two months out: 9 thoughts on the election

Every crisis is an opportunity.

Jan 10 • 

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November 2024

One sentence sums up Kamala Harris' misread of the election

The VP's failure to understand this was a change election helped doom her.

Nov 8, 2024 • 

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Grinding into the abyss

Harris, Gaza, and pushing through dark futures.

Nov 1, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Understanding 'Kamabla' and other Trump talk

Resist false choices and you can see the game.

Aug 8, 2024 • 

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