Adam Harris
@adamhsays.com
Writer exploring education, history, politics, and the South. Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America? | Senior Fellow, New America. Occasionally sharing poems. Work in The Atlantic, NYT, Guardian, and more.
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For the cover of Businessweek’s December issue, I wrote about the reigning queen of America’s strip malls: Ulta Beauty, the country’s biggest beauty retailer (yes, bigger than Sephora) and quietly one of the more fascinating retailers in the country. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How Beauty Behemoth Ulta Conquered the American Strip Mall
The retailer built an $11 billion business by acting more like Home Depot than like Sephora.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For the cover of Businessweek’s December issue, I wrote about the reigning queen of America’s strip malls: Ulta Beauty, the country’s biggest beauty retailer (yes, bigger than Sephora) and quietly one of the more fascinating retailers in the country. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Adrienne!
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adrienne Green, José Criales-Unzueta, Marisa Meltzer, and more join Vanity Fair www.vanityfair.com/news/story/v...
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Adrienne!
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Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)
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Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
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For perspective: There were 8 special elections for Mississippi Senate yesterday and 2 for Mississippi House.
Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot.
Democrats held the other 5 seats.
Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot.
Democrats held the other 5 seats.
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
For perspective: There were 8 special elections for Mississippi Senate yesterday and 2 for Mississippi House.
Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot.
Democrats held the other 5 seats.
Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot.
Democrats held the other 5 seats.
"This win was only possible because the Voting Rights Act ensures fair representation. If the Supreme Court dismantles these protections, we risk silencing the very voices that made last night’s historic outcome possible."
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"This win was only possible because the Voting Rights Act ensures fair representation. If the Supreme Court dismantles these protections, we risk silencing the very voices that made last night’s historic outcome possible."
"The surveillance tools are still operational. The war authorizations haven’t expired. The emergency powers remain open-ended. The only difference is tone. Trump made no pretense of national security. He ran the presidency the way Cheney designed it — only louder, and without the lawyers."
Cheney did everything he could to expand presidential power.
The current president is taking advantage.
Commentary from @alexiscoe.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The current president is taking advantage.
Commentary from @alexiscoe.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"The surveillance tools are still operational. The war authorizations haven’t expired. The emergency powers remain open-ended. The only difference is tone. Trump made no pretense of national security. He ran the presidency the way Cheney designed it — only louder, and without the lawyers."
my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.
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"In almost every situation, faculty members and administrators responded to outside pressures for the dismissal of dissenting faculty members in accord with what they believed would best protect or enhance their school's reputation."
Chile, the more things change, the more they stay the same
Chile, the more things change, the more they stay the same
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"In almost every situation, faculty members and administrators responded to outside pressures for the dismissal of dissenting faculty members in accord with what they believed would best protect or enhance their school's reputation."
Chile, the more things change, the more they stay the same
Chile, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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To prep for the higher ed policy class on censorship next week, I'm rereading Schrecker's No Ivory Tower. Buddy this intro has it all! SCOTUS jumping on the bandwagon, disregard of first amendment rights, why congressional hearings played such a key role, how private companies aided the government.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
To prep for the higher ed policy class on censorship next week, I'm rereading Schrecker's No Ivory Tower. Buddy this intro has it all! SCOTUS jumping on the bandwagon, disregard of first amendment rights, why congressional hearings played such a key role, how private companies aided the government.
closing thought: yamamoto is a wizard
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
closing thought: yamamoto is a wizard
see y’all in the spring. baseball is this fun all year.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
see y’all in the spring. baseball is this fun all year.
Bieber, Straw, Gime, and Ernie in the game at the same time 🥲
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Bieber, Straw, Gime, and Ernie in the game at the same time 🥲
myles straw walking this off would be the funniest thing
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
myles straw walking this off would be the funniest thing
Cleveland legend* Ernie Clement
*😏
*😏
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Cleveland legend* Ernie Clement
*😏
*😏
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Let's remember that earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled 94 million pounds of aid that was supposed to go to food banks.
Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger.
Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.
Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger.
Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Let's remember that earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled 94 million pounds of aid that was supposed to go to food banks.
Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger.
Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.
Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger.
Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.
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Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
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This is the year. Go Spurs Go.
whatever, I’ll say it: Spurs are winning it all this year
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is the year. Go Spurs Go.
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I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.
chicagoreader.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
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i have more to say on this, but for now: what a doozy.
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i have more to say on this, but for now: what a doozy.