Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Re Nolan Wells: One of the tragedies of race is that this country’s history teaches us to fear the worst when much remains unknown. That’s what reasoning looks like under a longstanding regime of racial violence & w/a keen awareness of the fragility of interracial trust. That is part of the tragedy.
Could not be more proud to say that Josh Dawsey was my pal and editor during my stint as a columnist for The Daily Gamecock at the University of South Carolina. That he’s become one of the most important journalists holding this president to account surprises none of us who saw his work then.
Craig R. BrittainTrump: "Josh Dawsey, he's been killing me for years. He kills me. He writes more stories than any human beings. He's hit the big time. Yet he's almost unhireable. CNN is also here and I'm disappointed they didn't bring Fake Tapper. Steven Cheung is one of the toughest humans I've ever met."
Interesting use of my work in a new paper. Authors use well-established finding that ideology is weaker predictor of party id among Black Ams than among White Ams as benchmark for sample quality. Representative samples recover that pattern. Less rep. samples do not. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perhaps one of the best things these media outfits have done in a while. Do not allow a lying president with the power of his office to demand that you give him a platform to tell his lies.
Republicans Against TrumpismJUST IN: NBC, ABC and CNN will not air Trump’s primetime address live
The president is a liar. He lies constantly & without hesitation. His lies about American elections are among his most dangerous b/c they are meant to convince a susceptible public that democratic outcomes cannot be trusted. They are antidemocratic lies in service of holding onto power. He’s a liar!
Perceived electability—which so often accrues to whiteness and white maleness—is a hell of a drug.
Hakeem JeffersonAs I’ve said before, Platner is a good example of how perceived electability advantage, often afforded to white men like him, can weaken Democrats’ fidelity to their values and make them more willing to engage in Trump-like excuse making for inexcusable behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...
Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at expense & exclusion of, other marginalized groups…The firmest foundation for freedom require[d] an anticaste reset…& would benefit all. KBJ
A fascinating (and cool) find—and a great read. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...
A Founder’s Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary Warwww.nytimes.comJonathan GienappOne of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...