Political Junkie
Claire Potter, John Stoehr, Neil J. Young, Stephen CasperNews you can use about politics, culture, and media
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 679 | Subscribers | Read | clairepotter.substack.com |
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Harlem's Queen
Last summer, journalist A’Lelia Bundles published the most recent volume of her family history, Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (Scribner, 2025), the first biography of Bundles’ great-grandmother, a businesswoman whos...
First Amendment Blues
We begin with this clip, in which Donald Trump defends FCC chair Brendan Carr’s warning to Disney about ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue about the right’s reaction to Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk’s murder.
"I Hate My Opponent and I Don't Want the Best for Them"
##### President Donald Trump takes the stage with Erika Kirk at the Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday, September 21, 2025. Photo credit: Daniel Torok/Wikimedia Commons
Dying in Darkness
We begin with a clip from the House Oversight Committee’s March 26 2025 hearing, chaired by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14), in which Greene begins by accusing the now-former CPB President and CEO Katherine Maher of ...
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Authors
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Historian | Author of "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020) | The New York Times, The New Republic, National Memo, DAME
John Stoehr is the editor and publisher of the Editorial Board, a newsletter about politics in plain English for normal people and the common good.
writer, podcaster, dog lover.
Stephen T. Casper, PhD, FRHistS, is a historian of medicine and the human sciences whose work on traumatic brain injury, concussion, and the cultural life of neuroscience examines how societies understand and govern the injured brain and mind.
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