A birthday beginning
Hi! Welcome!
I’m very excited to be sending out the first edition of my newsletter. Turns out that despite social media, voice-activation technology, and every other New Digital Innovation, the most reliable way to share stories, I think, remains good old-fashioned email.
Thank you so much for signing up. And a really special thank you to those who signed up to be paid subscribers. If you have not yet subscribed, look at this cool button I can embed right here in the middle of my post:
Today is my birthday! I figured that means it’s a good time to send out my first email because the rules of the universe state that any newsletter sent out on someone’s birthday has to be decently well-received. My mom posted this on my Facebook this morning:
It screams “budding policy journalist”
You might not be surprised to hear I have been overanalyzing what to put in this thing. So much so that I sought out advice from my wise Intercept editor Ryan Grim, who has run his own successful newsletter for the past four years.
Ryan gave me one big piece of advice:
Don’t stick to a regular publishing schedule, or else it will start to feel like homework. And then it will be less fun.
So with that in mind, I think I’ll send out emails when I have something to say, or when I publish something I just want to share with all of you. I know I have a few coming out next week that fall in that category. Bear with me as I experiment with different things.
In the meantime, I published two stories this week at The Intercept:
Donald Trump and the GOP Are Expanding A Controversial Obama-Era Public Housing Program
This story is about a consequential federal program called “RAD”, which stands for Rental Assistance Demonstration. It’s a horribly opaque name, as the program is neither really about “rental assistance” nor is it a “demonstration.” Few people know much about it, but I’m here to tell you it’s a pretty important thing happening to public housing in the United States.
Right-Wing Media Look at Parkland Student Activists And See A Reason To Gut Public Education
Some religious conservatives have long viewed public schools as dangerous, secularizing institutions, but in the wake of the Parkland shooting and the resulting student activism aimed at passing gun control, a wave of GOP pundits have been pushing the idea that it’s the teens’ corrupted public schools which are to blame.
Radio show host Mark Levin liked my story:
Leftwing unions are shutting down schools throughout America and this genius attacks me, lol. https://t.co/0akUbQjdoB
April 4, 2018Thanks for reading! If you want to get all your friends, family members and co-workers to sign up for this, I will not protest.