Starr Price invited me on the @hitpausepod to talk about the political media landscape: we had a ball. Here's a clip: youtube.com/shorts/fq2hB...

A gay icon. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Dies at 71 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Claire and Neil discuss Graham Platner’s exit from the Maine Senate Race—what we got right, what we got wrong, and why @hcrichardson.bsky.social won't take Platner's place youtu.be/OiapF9OiOCs

Buh-by Graham.

A wonderful human being and a big loss. Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

Hard agree. We have now been together over 40 years. Go On, Date Your Co-Workers www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...

This week, Neil and I highlight where the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara leaves us for now--14th amendment intact, but Republicans are still determined to change that. youtu.be/nUvzB9_NYSU

Yes.

Hard to imagine he really went to law school without Usha's help.

Good. These games breed violence.

OMG. He was paralyzed with depression. What a metaphor for the state of the GOP.

In our new drop, Claire and Neil discuss Donald Trump’s reflecting pool grift, and the gusher of tax dollars being spent on a redesign of Washington D.C. clairepotter.substack.com/p/its-not-ea...

Again--yay Pope. But one of the things that needs to be recognized more broadly is that civilian casualties are not collateral to war: they have been an intimate aspect of it for most of human history. Modern states *rely* on civilian casualties. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...

They seem to not be able to get their homework in on time, a key life skill.

Are you a @historians.org member? Please make it a priority to vote in this year’s elections: they close July 15. (THREAD: link to vote in #10)

In this week’s news focus, Claire and Neil delve into the politics of Donald Trump’s $60 million birthday party on the White House Lawn youtu.be/plSXjLzz3gE

No Donald, You Can’t Have A Pony: In today’s news focus, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I delve into the politics of Donald Trump’s $60 million birthday bash on the White House Lawn. clairepotter.substack.com/p/no-donald-...

Have you heard of the New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Bucket List? Why don’t we do it together? Click on the link below to see what's on my list! clairepotter.substack.com/p/paradise-w...

On this week's drop, I talk to Alice Echols about her new book about 1960s liberal commitments to the Black Freedom Struggle, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic" (Oxford University Press, 2026.) youtu.be/ZkbaYQw2n5M

It is very difficult for me to believe that "James Talarico is effeminate" is an effective policy position, even in Texas.

Why is Hunter Biden not hiding in a cave somewhere?

Can I just say that Andrew Jackson's giant cheese in the White House was a far better idea?

The Platner crisis is also a perfect example of the Democrats wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Maybe regular guy experiences aren’t nice, particularly when they involve combat duty in a war fought for the benefit of Halliburton and Erik Prince. clairepotter.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

After 92 year-old historian Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed, I looked up how many people in the US die in this way every year: the answer is approximately 7,000. I would have thought it would be more.

Oh my god Gordon Wood was run over by a car! Since he never, to the best of my knowledge, favorably reviewed a book written by a woman, I think we know where to start building the suspect list. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

I thought Bob Packwood was already dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

As Pride Month begins Neil Young and Claire discuss the increasingly open Republican hostility to lesbians and gays that has followed #MAGA’s anti-trans campaign youtu.be/FSVwO7SBMHQ

So you’re saying there’s a chance to force Vance to destroy his career by casting the tie breaking vote to continue the Iran War?

Join me and Princeton sociologist Paul Starr in a discussion of his recent essay in the American Prospect about Stephen Miller’s “white replenishment” agenda. 11:30 TODAY at this link: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

@historians.org elections begin today and close July 15: please vote! I will be choosing my candidates from the slate provided by the Nominating Committee, and reading statements to ensure that the people I vote for uphold the priorities of the organization. secure.historians.org/members/serv...

The end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, "in which private, uncoerced, homosexual relationships became legal in the United States military, marked the end of an era–one that for me began when I was commissioned an Army second lieutenant in May 1984." clairepotter.substack.com/p/consensual...

Tomorrow at 11:30 I’ll be talking to sociologist Paul Starr about @StephenM’s “white replenishment” agenda. substack.com/@clairepotte...

But has anyone noted his resemblance to the Grinch?

On Tuesday June 2 at 1:00, The American Prospect's Paul Starr and I will be on a Facebook live talking about his new essay on Stephen Miller's "white replenishment" project. Link to the livestream is in the first reply prospect.org/2026/05/26/s...

On this week's podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I dish the Democratic Party 2024 election autopsy--otherwise known as #DNC chair Ken Martin's late term paper. youtu.be/o056pVoWj48

Writer Katha Politt offers commentary on @tenuredradical.bsky.social's Substack about trying to get AI to write a poem in her style. Required reading, writers! #AI #poetry open.substack.com/pub/clairepo...

Spent billions of dollars, lost the war he started, and it will take weeks to back to the status quo ante. Incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

From #Trump on down, the #MAGA movement is preoccupied with masculinity, good looks and power—but not with any of the virtues that might be associated with adult manhood. Our take on #Clavicular: youtu.be/insBWjquRnM

Quite honoured by this wonderful, thoughtful review of my book by Claire Potter.

RIP, #BarneyFrank: clairepotter.substack.com/p/should-dem...

My piece on the 50th anniversary of The Hite Report, published with all the dirty words intact: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

We kind of knew this from the history of the rise of Nazism: those drawn to it were generally failures, and recruited for their vulnerability to venality and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

no one has any solution for the core problem of the iran war: trump can’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith, honor a deal, or even remember signing it after 24 hours

Gay congressman Barney Frank was pugnacious, progressive and deliberate. Neil and Claire talk about his final interviews, and his advice to the Democratic Party. clairepotter.substack.com/p/should-dem... youtu.be/x0m1dYB9N2c

@tenuredradical.bsky.social, Kill Canvas. Now. www.chronicle.com/article/kill... "the only real reason to have [learning management systems] is a series of financial incentives that benefit neither students nor faculty, whose data and labor is offered up to Big Tech as profit"

The @chronicle.com liked my Substack post about what we can learn from the #Canvas hack enough that they asked for a revision and reprint! www.chronicle.com/article/kill...

Headline: Trump Hates Families

After Trump is gone, the next government should put a plaque that says "let them eat cake" on each of these monstrosities.

"I would say that the results of implementing technology 'solutions' have been mixed at best: they solve invented problems by destroying something else." #Canvas clairepotter.substack.com/p/kill-canva...