Brendan Vaughan

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·Mar 10, 2021

Join the co-founder of #BLM for a conversation about power

Hello GEN reader! Medium is hosting a big event tomorrow and we’d love for you to join us. “The Purpose of Power” will be a live Zoom conversation between #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza and Vanessa De Luca, editor-in-chief of ZORA. The event starts at 4:15 ET/1:15 PT and you can…

Black Lives Matter

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Join the co-founder of #BLM for a conversation about power

Published in GEN

·Dec 29, 2020

I Got, Like, Super Into Trees This Year

Feeling disconnected, it was time to commune with the Wood Wide Web — On the sad curve of what passed for big fun in 2020, going for a walk in the woods was the Covid equivalent of… I don’t know, checking into a luxe hotel for a three-day weekend? My wife and I went for a lot of nature walks this year: the…

Outdoors

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·Dec 18, 2020

How Matthew McConaughey Became ‘Alright, Alright, Alright’

Of all the stereotypically Gen X things about my taste and overall worldview, probably the most stereotypical of all is my goofy love for Dazed and Confused. That’s why I couldn’t be more delighted to point you to this excerpt from Matthew McConaughey’s new memoir, Greenlights. And not just any…

Matthew Mc Conaughey

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Published in GEN

·Nov 3, 2020

Tonight your TV diet should consist of 25 percent CNN, 10 percent ABC (for Nate Silver), and just…

Tonight your TV diet should consist of 25% CNN, 10% ABC (for Nate Silver), and just a skosh of Fox News. So says Will Leitch, who offers this handy guide to which channels you should watch this evening, when, and why. “Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate has argued that no pundits…

Election 2020

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Tonight your TV diet should consist of 25% CNN, 10% ABC (for Nate Silver), and just a skosh of Fox News. So says Will Leitch, who offers this handy guide to which channels you should watch this evening, when, and why.

“Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate has argued that no pundits…

Published in GEN

·Sep 29, 2020

The 2020 election is tearing retirement communities apart.

The 2020 election is tearing retirement communities apart. So I was talking to a source we’ll call my “Mom” (not her real name), and she mentioned that the election-related tension within her North Carolina retirement community has reached a boiling point. Bipartisan dinner parties have become untenable; she was recently…

Election 2020

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Published in GEN

·Sep 25, 2020

Will Leitch gets misty for Obama after watching The Way I See It, a documentary about former White…

Will Leitch gets misty for Obama after watching The Way I See It, a documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza, now an anti-Trump activist. The nostalgia trip is glorious but also strikingly faded, Leitch writes, “a sort of ‘Behind The Music: The Obama Years.’” And when the action…

Obama

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·Aug 1, 2020

Why Half-Normal Feels Even Stranger Than Total Chaos

Welcome back to Flux, a weekly newsletter from GEN about the powerful forces reshaping America. — I’m going to try to capture a mood here, bear with me. I’m not quite sure where this is going, which reflects the mood I’m channeling: Do any of us know where anything is going? We’re in a profoundly in-between moment, and there’s something about this moment that feels even…

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Why Half-Normal Feels Even Stranger Than Total Chaos

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·Apr 19, 2020

New York, I Love You, But This Is Really Getting To Be a Lot

Dear Reader, After a month of near-constant coronavirus coverage here at GEN, we finally had a chance this week to slow down and take a look around—and it feels like a lot of the country was doing the same. The past several days have had a different rhythm, a combination…

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New York, I Love You, But This Is Really Getting To Be a Lot

Published in GEN

·Apr 5, 2020

Pandemics change the world, sometimes for the better

Dear Reader, When this is all over, our world will be different. But how? To peer into the future, GEN’s editor at large Steve LeVine took a long look at the distant past. “How the Black Death Radically Altered the Course of History” is a brilliant essay about the plague’s…

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Pandemics change the world, sometimes for the better

Published in GEN

·Jun 12, 2019

Introducing GEN

Today we’re launching a new Medium publication about politics, power, and culture — Hello out there! And welcome to GEN, a new publication we created to help you (and ourselves) better understand the powerful forces reshaping our world. You say it like this: /jen/. As in GENesis. GENerate. GENuine. GENius. (Fine, that last one doesn’t really work, pronunciation-wise, but let’s not get hung…

Medium

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