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A top five! And a discussion! This week: What's the dish that you're most amped to see at the party/potluck/group gathering?

What did the boys do today?

A TOP FIVE! AND A DISCUSSION! Who were our pop culture role models (for better or worse)

What if the most caring members of your community all knew each other?

A TOP FIVE LIST! AND A DISCUSSION! What's your overly reductive cliche demographic group?

I'm gonna love the hell out of you

Over the next few days, somebody may try to tell you that whatever you're feeling right now is unhelpful and embarrassing

A TOP FIVE LIST! AND A DISCUSISON! Pre-election sanity edition

What's the matter? You can't take a joke?

A Top Five List! And A Discussion! This week, we're talking mailable gifts

The alert went off on my phone right before I was supposed to address a room full of parents

A TOP FIVE LIST! AND A CONVERSATION! What song would you play for us if you had our rapt attention?

Moms for democracy

THE WEEKLY TOP FIVE/COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Popular opinions!

The old commune is a park now, and the schoolhouse where they founded the Republican Party is across the street from a vape shop

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Sure, why not... let's rank road trip snacks

Some of the houses are still there, some were destroyed and some never existed in the first place

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What's a topic you can't stop thinking about lately?

Three questions I wish pollsters, journalists and canvassers would stop asking...

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Tell us about a place that you love

Culture Wars! At the multiplex

We are not as cruel as we are made out to be

Hey! Do you have two hours this fall? If so, I'd like to teach you to organize!

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: The first ever White Pages Kringle rankings

Believing in things is great, actually

WEEKLY SUBSCRIBERS DISCUSSION: We're talking vicarious sources of joy again

Care more, for more people

When all the social media sites eventually implode under their own weight, I still want to see your back to school pictures

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: If a politician showed up at your door, what do you wish they'd ask you?

The paradox of persuasion

The week of the dad

On pandering (to me)

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Oh you know, just a "how are you doing?" check-in (but with a story first)

Much ado about White dudes

Why I signed on to "Dads for Kamala"

What's this? Kamala Harris has to pick a Midwestern White guy as her Vice President? Have I got a list for her!

When life gives you the Republican National Convention, you... attend an advance screening of the upcoming Reagan movie

In the room where (nothing much) happens

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: A social experiment of sorts (also known as, we're going to listen to each other's feelings on a topic that most of the internet is shouting about!)

Two short stories about non-inevitability

What better way to commemorate the Fourth of July than with ten Swedish signs I loved?

Loving Clueless, being clueless, striving for something other than cluelessness

Play-acting social democracy

"What kind of man are you?"

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We're gonna declare the official "[insert category of your choice] of the summer"

The Ten Commandments, ranked by how applicable they are to the average public school classroom

The hundred year old movie that predicted our current reactionary moment

The seven types of White people you’ll meet in the 1999 motion picture Cruel Intentions

Actually, fifth grade graduations might be the best graduations

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We're going to thank somebody who has been really kind to us recently (why? because why not?)

Mean as in "I didn't mean to offend you"

Boy, there's nothing quite like trying to explain Trump's conviction to your kids to put the inherent contradictions of the American judicial system into stark perspective

The day that the Fonz solved racism

LONG WEEKEND COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's wave a magic wand to change one (small) thing about human beings

There are so many things I don't understand about human beings and some nights it's helpful to say a few of those things out loud

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Help me choose this year's movie series

Trying to be curious about an incurious book

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Drama!

Noemwhere to run, Noemwhere to hide

It is only shocking when it happens in certain places

On being inspired and nervous at the same time

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Are you more or less empathetic than you were a decade ago?

One easy trick to make me want to volunteer and donate to your political campaign

A comprehensive list of actions that your organization is required to take if it is being targeted by Christopher Rufo

You won't save the world by blowing a hole in the sky

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We're talkin' shared spaces and their impact on us

Breaking news: Eclipses are great!

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What do you notice about the moments when you're more hopeful and/or more cynical/despairing?

I wanted Anne Braden to give me all the answers, instead she put me back to work

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Well, not really a full discussion this week, but want to see some pictures of my family jumping?

Yes, I will vote for every single school funding referendum that comes my way

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What's a political/cultural topic you wish you knew more about?

Five pictures that explain The Right Kind of White (a book that is out now!)

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What are you listening to and how are you listening to it?

The (other) soundtrack to my youth

For whom does the Senator pander?

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's have a promotion (including self-promotion) potluck

The Second Annual White Pages Guide To The Oscars

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's imagine a perfect Leap Day

What we see in the flames

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What is a topic you actually enjoy arguing about?

How does it feel to have a book coming out in a month?

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: It's book recommendation time (and also, help me build the Official White Pages Literary Canon)

Love in the time of multimillion dollar Super Bowl ad buys

The White Pages Guide To The Super Bowl

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What's something you wish that people asked you more?

The problem with becoming famous for being an anti-woke rapper...

What is a better way to talk about immigration?

On sticking around

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We are going to solve small talk!

A few words of consolation for my close personal friend Ron DeSantis, who has ended his Presidential campaign

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: If you were to choose one North American thing/place to show off how wonderful government services can be, what would it be?

Government services should be delightful!

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's talk about trying to prioritize friendship and community (how to do it, why it's hard, etc.).

Panic on the streets of Whitewater

An open letter to a man who neither demoralizes nor deranges me...