Avery Collins

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Let's Do Lunch! ft. Claudia Sahm, Economist

Thank you for tuning into another episode of Let’s Do Lunch! with Jared Bernstein and special guest ,…

Dolly Parton’s Greatest Legacy Was Her Giving

Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam. (Photo by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,…

Aim, Misfire, Ready

Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.The Contrarian is community-supported.…

What Is Going on with Vote by Mail?

What is going on with vote by mail?So back in March, Trump issued an executive order which told…

The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger Will Harm Vulnerable Communities

On Coffee with Contrarians this morning, Contrarian publisher Norm Eisen chatted with Juan Proaño, the CEO of LULAC.…

Meta’s Social Media Settlement Is Not Enough

On Wednesday, Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, announced a landmark legal settlement in a trial…

Evening Roundup, August 26: Mail-in Voting and Heidi Overton

SpotlightIn The HeadlinesMedia CenterClick here to join us LIVE at 9:15 AM tomorrow with Norm, April, & Jonathan…

Is This the End of the Mass Incarceration Era?

Over the first two decades of the 21st century, the U.S. has been imprisoning people at a steadily…

Dolly Parton Thought She Could, and She Did

Ever since the news of Dolly Parton’s death on Tuesday, there’s one clip I can’t stop watching. It’s…

Can This Little Bookstore Save a Rust-Belt Town?

“I love Poe!” a teenage girl exclaimed, racing toward a shelf of Edgar Allan Poe volumes. I was…

The Case for Optimism in a Doomer Age

In a culture consumed by doomerism, it has become widely accepted that the world is running out of…

Heidi Overton and the Overton Window

Last week, President Trump posted to Truth Social his plan to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton as commissioner of…

Coffee with Contrarians ft. Juan Proaño, CEO of LULAC

Thank you for tuning into another episode of Coffee with Contrarians with special guest , CEO of the…

‘Light of a Clear Blue Morning’

RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the…

Latinos Back Efforts to Block the Paramount-Warner Merger

By Roman Palomares and Juan ProañoSince 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has defended the…