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A tale of two Americas (opens the original)
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On the exact same day, which happened to be my older son’s 14th birthday, I saw two versions of America.(I won’t dwell on the birthday part, because I’ve written about it in the past here, and now that he’s 14 everything I write about him is cringe, so as a birthday gift to him, I’ll keep my thoughts to myself for this one. Anyway. ILYSM though, if you’re reading.)Thanks
35: Still (Un)comfortable: Five Years of Dear White Women (opens the original)
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Five years ago, Sara and Misasha published Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism - and almost immediately got an email accusing them of being the racist ones for naming it.On this anniversary episode, they finally answer the questions they've never asked each other out loud: What was the hardest feedback they ever received? What's the most quoted, most powerful section of the book? And in a moment of DEI rollbacks and book bans, does the book's message still hold up -
How to Defend a Free and Fair Election: Your 2026 Midterm Action Plan (opens the original)
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I had the chance to go live on LinkedIn with my good friend Karen Fleshman recently for a conversation about something on a lot of our minds right now: how do we actually show up to defend a free and fair election, beyond just feeling anxious about it? Here’s a little of what I had to say about this November 3rd election:We covered a lot of ground, but here’s what I wanted to make sure everyone took away as the most concrete, doable steps:B
Never forget (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago today was my first real day of law school classes at Columbia Law School.I was standing in the cafe of the law school, getting a bagel and coffee, when I heard people talking about a plane that had hit the World Trade Center.Thanks for reading Say The Hard Thing! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary"
34: The Sound of Silence: Fascism, Nativism, and What's Happening Right Now in America (opens the original)
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Picture a newsroom in Rome under dictator Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in the 1930s. A censor's red pencil moves down a page before it ever reaches a printing press.Now picture a cell phone, right now, tonight: someone typing out a post, reading it back to themselves, and deleting it before they hit send.Two moments, nearly a hundred years apart, but with the same instinct.Silence isn't just what's left when words are cut, or people are quiet. It's something regimes - and sometimes just fea
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