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In 2023, I Want A New Deal for Book Stores

Just Because George Santos Wasn't In the Closet Doesn't Mean He Wasn't Hiding Stuff

Episode 7: You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin

Political Junkies Are Killing Our Democracy

What I Have Learned About the Future of Higher Education From The New School Strike

Episode 6: The Most Powerful Man in America

What Should the GOP Learn from the Midterms?

Episode 5: Verdi, Dante, and Dahlia Lithwick

Expressing My Gratitude

Does Reinstating Trump's Twitter Account Matter?

Episode 4: Bringing the War Home

Tenured Faculty, We Are the 18%

Episode 3: Black and White Together

Election night chat

The Episode of White House Apprentice Where Mark Meadows Bursts Into Tears

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Episode 2: The First Family of Abolition

Where is the Canada of the Internet?

Episode 1: Pulling Back the Curtain on Political Campaigns

Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online

Going Into Debt For a Humanities Ph.D.

Donald Trump is a Failure

“F*ck the Voting, Let's Get Right To the Violence.”

Each Graduate Program Is A Destination

When Faculty Are Fired

Rainy Days and Mondays

A Good Ph.D. Program Asks Students To Think Beyond the Academic Job Market

Are Your Students Interested in Ph.D. Programs?

Why Christianity and the Fate of American Democracy Are Intertwined

What Phyllis Schlafly Knew

The Biden Doctrine

The Elusive Latino Voter

Welcome to Beautiful Martha's Vineyard!

Are Students A Captive Audience?

Will it Always Be September 12?

Why Would You Viciously Attack a Dead Queen?

What Does the United States Secret Service Do?

Academic Jobs I Have Loved

Why Should Schools Be Mental Health Care Providers?

What Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein Have In Common: Female Enablers

By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea

Can Pennsylvania's John Fetterman Turn Politics Around?

Yay! Joe Biden Reduces Student Debt

When Did Coalition Politics Between Women on the Left and Right Become Impossible?

What Would Andrea Dworkin Have Said About Harvey Weinstein?

Don't Exaggerate Trump's Political Power Outside the GOP: Winter Is Coming

Tomorrow Is High Noon for Liz Cheney

Even If She Never Hits Another Ball, Serena Williams is the GOAT

The January 6 Insurrection was Powered By Social Media

When Democrats Go High, Republicans Go Low

Brittney Griner Should Never Have Been in Russia

Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote

Today's Newsletter, CORRECTED

Kentucky Is Drowning, Yet Its Senators Remain Climate Science Skeptics

Yes, the Democrats Can Still Win in November

Small-Donor Fundraising Does Little for Democracy--But A Lot for Political Consultants

Congressman Lee Zeldin's No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day

The Foiled Confederate Coup of 1861

Did I Hear Someone Say Witness Tampering, Mr. Chairman?

The New Neo-Conservatives

Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Thou Shalt Not Lie

The Roots of Congressional Partisanship

This November Can Be the Democratic Party's Gettysburg

Remember When New York City Almost Went Bankrupt?

Cry Harder, Donald Trump

What Clarence Thomas's Concurrence in Dobbs Reveals About His Judicial Philosophy

How Fetal Politics Stole Americans' Reproductive Rights

"There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe"

What, to the White American, is Juneteenth?

Now, You Can Call Her Lauren`Ho-bert

Trump's Election Grift? It's Called a ScamPAC

The Big Lie

Donald Trump, Conspirator in Chief

Watergate Summer

Anti-Trans Bills Are Driving a New Moral Panic

Living Life Off the Leash

How Conservatives Criminalize Speech

Happy Memorial Day

How to Become a Queer Historian

Republican Blood Money

Jesus, Guns, Babies

The Future of Working From Home

Madison Cawthorn Is No More

Because It's My Birthday

When Disasters Are Good For Museums

Right-Wing Reproductive Justice Requires Forced Pregnancy

I Can't Believe You Said That!

Singing America’s Racial History

Singing America’s Racial History

Radical Republicans Are Birthing the Nation They Want--and Most Americans Don't

Raging Bull(sh*t)

#TeachingWhileBlack

Becoming Un-Disciplined

Elon Musk Buys a Bird

One of the Earliest Sources of Disinformation in American History Was--American History

Mississippi's Welfare Kings and Queens

What Elon Musk Should Know About Twitter

Speech Was Margaret Sanger's Most Potent Weapon

A Bunch of Hoops to Jump Through

As Trump Endorses Dr. Oz, Extremists Fume

The Death of the Book Has Been Prematurely Reported

Pedophiles and Party Politics

Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech

Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Is About Much More Than Gender and Sexuality

The Slap Heard Round the World

Queer Noir

Are the Wheels Coming Off the Clown Car?

Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Enrages Republicans

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Smile As Much As She Needs To

The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Conspiracy-Mongering Media Company One America News Network Is On Life Support

Two Years of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Counting

Why Polls Can’t Satisfy Us

Why Fannie Lou Hamer Endures

Is Emma Camp Correct That College Students Silence Themselves?

Phillis Wheatley's Lost Years

A Lot of Things Are Broken

Is Putin a Mad King?

Anonymous is #StandingWithUkraine

The Tweets of War

A Day at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Academic Twitter Sez: You Never Have to Say Thank You to Anyone, Ever Again

Books That Matter: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble"

It's Time to Re-read Andrea Dworkin

The University Ate My Neighborhood

Punch a Sexual Harasser in the Face

Moving Monday

Walking This Road Together

Bomb Threats are an American Tradition

We Still Want Jobs and Freedom Now

How Can Voters Approve of Biden If They Don't Know What He Is Doing?

The Zoom Compromise

How the Reagan Administration Decided That Sexual Harassment Was No Longer Sexual Discrimination

No, Joan Didion Wasn't a Feminist

Why Do Americans Vote Against Their Interests?

Why Did it Take 15 Years to Establish a Federal Holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Death Of A President

How I Became a Writer

Do You Work with Jerks?

Norman Mailer Wasn't Canceled

Why Privatization Is Worse Than You Know

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets No More