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The Politics Issue: A new way to cover America

Fall 2021

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Last December—about a month after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and a month before rioters staged an insurrection in support of Donald Trump—a firestorm erupted over an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Written by Joseph Epstein, an eighty-three-year-old former lecturer at Northwestern University, the piece was called “Is...

Inside the Lines

Jun 21, 2021 By Savannah Jacobson

A reliable way to stir up attention is to posit that “the mainstream media” did or did not do something. Someone will invariably respond; everyone’s got an opinion on the subject. That was the draw, anyway, when, to drum up business, Nick Bacon, a video producer in Chicago, named his company, which provides technical support for...

What Journalism Can Learn from Mutual Aid

Nov 19, 2020 By Darryl Holliday

This spring, as the coronavirus ravaged the United States, mutual aid groups proliferated. In Chicago, where I live, I watched businesses close and people suddenly lose their jobs. I saw “essential workers,” mostly Black and brown folks from the city’s South and West Sides, taking the bus to fulfill their duties at the peak of...

The Movable Feast

Oct 7, 2021 By Navneet Alang

Last summer, as the country reeled from the murder of George Floyd and the police killing of Breonna Taylor, American food media went through its own race-related upheaval. Fueled by the broader national reckoning as well as internal controversies, many publications launched conversations about appropriation, white privilege, and the relationships between professional success, cultural heritage,...

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