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I did something that's big news for me, and not typically what academic political scientists do:
I wrote a parenting book about our subject.
This is a medium-long thread on why/how.
If you are teaching high school social studies/civics/AP US Gov, etc - there is a resource that I have used in my classes, and I have nothing but good things to say about it:
everythingpolicy.org/policy-…
I got to talk to @EllenLWeintraub - FEC commissioner & four-time chair from 2002-2025!
It's here: youtube.com/watch?v=cFKn3e6v…
**And while I have you, it's free to subscribe to the YouTube channel & helps me a lot on the backend - this is a request/plea if you've got an account**
This is my last public talk for the season, coming up on Nov 6 eventbrite.com/e/lectures-on…
The Authoritarian Is the Other Guy (But it used to be a guy in another country)
dcinboxinsights.substack.com…
Lindsey Cormack retweeted
Lindsey Cormack (@DCInbox) discusses the challenges of teaching children about government when communities have experienced broken trust on #CivicParenting.
🎧 Listen to Episode 8: sbrew.link/cKxdcTnI
The CEO of United Airlines said this in the NYTimes this morning:
(but the headline they ran was: United’s C.E.O. Says It Should Cost More Not to Sit in the Middle Seat)
Socialism & Women explaining their votes
Ten years after one of my first DCinbox papers a pattern showed up again:
dcinboxinsights.substack.com…
A really nice thing about a talk I gave in Ridgewood last month just came out:
tapinto.net/towns/ridgewood/…
Congressional Republicans are the only people saying "Democratic Socialists" in official congressional e-newsletters
You know who said "defund the police" the most over the past few years?
Republicans.
Full write up here: dcinboxinsights.substack.com…
Lindsey Cormack retweeted
On #CivicParentingPodcast, @JMSilverbrook and Lindsey Cormack (@DCInbox) discuss the role institutions play in combating the civic knowledge crisis.
🎧 Listen now: sbrew.link/ZvJeDAXu
I have a lot of events happening in October. If you are in:
Utica, NY
Manhattan, NY
Shrewsbury, MA
Marlboro, NY
San Antonio, TX
Greencastle, IN
or
Brooklyn, NY
I'd love to see you at one of these - making my internet people into my IRL 3D people is one of my favorite things.
I had a very nice conversation with Tim Peters on Copper Country Today about How to Raise a Citizen and why helping young people understand government and see themselves as part of civic life matters so much right now.
Thanks for caring about this topic!
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I have a bit in a new @newsweek.com article:
The More Young People Use AI, the Less They Like It
newsweek.com/ai-politics/the…
Using the @AllSidesNow Media Bias sorting of media outlets, here's how how many official e-newsletters members of Congress have sent referencing different news sources form 2010-2025:
