On this week's episode @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I discuss how the death of South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization creates potential Republican paralysis on Capitol Hill. clairepotter.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Have you heard of the New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Bucket List? Why don’t we do it together? Click on the link below to see what's on my list! clairepotter.substack.com/p/paradise-w...

The Platner crisis is also a perfect example of the Democrats wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Maybe regular guy experiences aren’t nice, particularly when they involve combat duty in a war fought for the benefit of Halliburton and Erik Prince. clairepotter.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

The end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, "in which private, uncoerced, homosexual relationships became legal in the United States military, marked the end of an era–one that for me began when I was commissioned an Army second lieutenant in May 1984." clairepotter.substack.com/p/consensual...

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"I would say that the results of implementing technology 'solutions' have been mixed at best: they solve invented problems by destroying something else." #Canvas clairepotter.substack.com/p/kill-canva...

"#Botstein was exactly the sort of person that you would expect to find running a college whose name was synonymous with the arts, and who you would also expect to find orbiting a person like #Epstein." clairepotter.substack.com/p/leon-botst...

Sometimes it took a while for Susan Brownmiller to get her mail.

Says the man who sells citizenship to this country. Literally sells it.

As the party in power, no matter how much they blame Democrats, Republicans will take the hit for the failure to fund the #TSA last week, and #GOP party strategists know it. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-dangli...

Here is something Claude made for me, citing sources and explaining method (which we negotiated in relation to available data for a talk I am giving today: it shows the decline in legacy media vs. the acceleration of alternative media, 1990-2026. Would have taken a day to do this by hand.

Last week, The New York Times published an investigation into legendary labor organizer Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) and his decades of alleged criminal conduct. clairepotter.substack.com/p/shattering...

The terrible, horrible, no-good, Democratic security lines at my local airport this morning:

Tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST, join historian @eladiobobadilla.com and I for a Substack live about the recent devastating revelations about Cesar Chavez: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

"In the United States Air Force of the early 1970s, an officer’s wife was, functionally, an unpaid extension of her husband’s career....her world was bound by whatever the institution had decided women needed." clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-office...

On our most recent drop, Neil Young and I focused on right wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens: here, I talk about Owens's intrinsic relationship, as a Black woman, to conspiracy: clairepotter.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Before I tell you what it even means to grieve through your vagina, or why you would choose to do that (hint: there is penis involved), let’s review what Evie is. clairepotter.substack.com/p/all-about-...

Join me and @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social as we answer the question: how did the MAHA fitness message get so weird? clairepotter.substack.com/p/how-did-th...

What gave the Epstein network purpose was not the traffic in women, but the sale of valuable knowledge—within which women circulated as currency and party favors. clairepotter.substack.com/p/a-prince-a...

Watching the Wall Street Journal join the resistance has been the most interesting feature of the age of Trump

“There is plenty of incompetence to go around in Donald Trump’s cabinet. But DOJ Barbie and ICE Barbie—Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem—are this month’s faces of failure.” clairepotter.substack.com/p/barbies-ma...

Is the foolish choice to "cancel" Bad Bunny a sign that MAGA is beginning to buckle? clairepotter.substack.com/p/magas-self...

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"#MAGA has put numerous terms back in circulation on social media that properly belong on a playground or in the men’s room of a pole dancing club." clairepotter.substack.com/p/playground...

What can past peace movements teach us about the extremism and violence the Trump administration is wreaking on Democratic cities? Listen to me and The New School historian Jeremy Varon talk about the people who tried to stop the War on Terror. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-home-f...

It is worth noting that it was not long ago that when a citizen was killed by law enforcement, federal officials did not insist right off the bat that such a person was at fault for their own death and obviously a notorious criminal in their own right. clairepotter.substack.com/p/the-cavalr...

On today's Political Junkie podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about what it means that Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent--and no one in the GOP spoke a word of regret, comfort or concern. clairepotter.substack.com/p/liddle-mar...

With journalist Luke Johnson on Substack: "I think the fear is in Venezuela that now Maduro has been ousted from power, who knows what the criminal gangs and paramilitaries will respond? Will they be okay with Trump just saying, We’re running the country? " clairepotter.substack.com/p/trump-goes...

Join me and analyst Luke Johnson tomorrow as we explore the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela. Just click the link tomorrow at 11:15. You don't have to be a subscriber--but you are always welcome to become one! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I had the pleasure of being in conversation with John Stoehr @editorialboard.bsky.social about the future of MAGA. Here's the first in a two part series, with short takes and cultural finds! clairepotter.substack.com/p/this-is-th...