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Zeeshan Aleem

MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor

Zeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked at Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and he has also been published in, among other places, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Intercept. You can sign up for his free politics newsletter here.

Zeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked at Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and he has also been published in, among other places, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Intercept. You can sign up for his free politics newsletter here.

Latest from Zeeshan Aleem

2d ago

If you think Trump is just bluffing, you're the sucker

Donald Trump and his supporters use the excuse that he's not being serious to deflect responsibility from his most extreme rhetoric.
3d ago

One sentence sums up Kamala Harris' misread of the election

Why Harris lost the election to Trump is a complicated question. Part of it is tied to her failure to outline what she would have done differently than Biden.
4d ago

Elissa Slotkin beats Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race, NBC News projects

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., has won the race for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s retirement.
5d ago

Elon Musk's QAnon signaling is a disturbing new low

X owner Elon Musk pushes QAnon messaging, suggesting his relationship with Donald Trump has become unhealthy and dangerous.
11d ago

The Republican freakout over Biden's 'garbage' gaffe is absurd

Trump and his allies are fixating on Biden's gaffe as he criticized Tony Hinchcliffe' joke about Puerto Rico as "garbage." But their narrative doesn't work.
12d ago

Jeff Bezos' absurd defense of gutting The Washington Post's endorsement policy

Jeff Bezos' defense of quashing a Kamala Harris endorsement at The Washington Post is incoherent and self-defeating.
16d ago

What Kamala Harris' troubling embrace of war hawks means

Kamala Harris has embraced Israel hawks Ritchie Torres and Liz Cheney in Michigan. That's not going to help her with voters moving to the Green Party over Gaza.
17d ago

Feeling anxious about the election? There's something you can do about it.

The liberal habit of anxiously fixating on Trump versus Harris polls is a distraction from what people ought to be doing.
19d ago

Donald Trump's campaign is behaving remarkably irrationally

Trump's risky gamble with delegating get-out-the-vote operations to Elon Musk's America PAC is just the latest of many baffling missteps.
20d ago

Why Elon Musk's latest change to X is the last straw for many users

Elon Musk's weakening of the block feature on X betrays a bewildering indifference to user experience and safety.
23d ago

The Democrats' Black voter crisis is overblown

Kamala Harris is not at risk of losing huge number of Black men to Donald Trump if you look at the right polls and trends, political scientists say.