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Adding Karen Attiah to my list of people I admire.

Three days ago, she posted the following on Substack: “I’ll be offering an independent, public version of my Race, Media and International Affairs graduate course I taught at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.”

To her surprise, within just two days, 2,500 students had signed up—with another 200 on a waiting list. Her expectation? 50 students.

I admire her passion for both learning and teaching, and her deep understanding that the desire to learn is alive and well in others.

I also listened to a powerful interview with Karen here: https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-is-talking-about-race-so-scary.

If you're not already subscribed (it's free), I highly recommend signing up—Substack has some truly high-quality content.

Here are the writers and publications I currently subscribe to—most are free, though I pay a small amount (usually $50–$70 per year) to support a handful of them:

• Heather Cox Richardson – Letters From An American 

• Robert Reich 

• The Don Lemon Show

• Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

• Seeing Things – Liza Donnelly (Cartoonist & political perspective)

• The Jim Acosta Show

• Joy's House – Joy Ann Reid

• Steady – Dan Rather

• The Contrarian

• Lucid – Ruth Ben-Ghiat

• The Left Hook – Wajahat Ali

• The Borowitz Report (Surprised to learn Andy does serious as well as funny!)

• Michael Cohen (A frequent guest on other shows—his past relationship with 47 gives him insight he’s more than willing to share)

• The.Ink – Anand Giridharadas

• Popular Information – Judd Legum

• Invisible Threads – Kate Woodsome (She writes about the connection between mental health and democracy. She was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for our coverage of the January 6 insurrection in 2021.)

• Adam Kinzinger

• The Breakdown – Allison Gill

• Mush Watch

• Old Goats – Jonathan Alter

• Karen Attiah

For fun, I follow two more:

• Marjorie's Musings (my friend Marjorie Apple)

• Serious Literary Author

Some of these creators post daily, and many are quick reads—or I’ll listen to a podcast while doing chores. Admittedly, I’m retired, so I usually spend three to four hours a day on Substack.