An award-winning newsletter that shares some of the most interesting and informative news stories about the Black experience in America. 2023 Webby Award honoree.

This newsletter, which is part of the OptOut Media Foundation, is dedicated to helping you decode the national conversation by exposing misinformation, disinformation, and bad actors.

Reflections on American democracy and its discontents

Things falling apart.

Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.

How the police and the media distract us from what matters.

Working through the crises of racial capitalism towards liberation.

Dispatches from the frontlines of the information war, where I’ll break down the latest in disinformation, deception, and the dark side of technology.

Exclusive stories, unfiltered opinions, and breaking political scoops from the youngest generation's point of view.

The world of Twitter and $TWTR

What are the conservatives up to today?

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future.

I write about subjects ranging from the mystical and psychedelic to the political and mundane.

Original reporting and intelligence on hate and extremism in America today.

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