The Cut’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2024
Read the full article here. Here at the Cut, we’re building a community for women and femmes and the curiosities that drive us. This year, our readers were driven by a curiosity about the lives of others. You read and commented and shared as writers got personal about divorces and almost-divorces, fraught family dynamics in … Read more
Tracie McMillan joins Tavis Smiley to talk health care / Tavis Smiley Show (radio)
Tracie McMillan, Journalist and Author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America” gives her analysis about the failures of the health care system and the challenging privilege of the suspect, Luigi Mangione. Listen on The Tavis Smiley Show website or wherever you get your podcasts. The Tavis Smiley Show.
Tracie McMillan on Stateside: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 / Stateside (podcast)
View the original page here. In today’s edition of Stateside, earlier this year Tracie McMillan published a book on where she recounts her late mother’s battle with health insurance. She joined Stateside to talk about what is on her mind after the recent fatal shooting of a health insurance executive in New York. Then, recently, Crystallee Crain, an … Read more
The UHC CEO Murder reminded me of this…
The following excerpts are from Chapters 7 and 8 of The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. I am sharing them in light of the December 3 murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, one of the nation’s largest health insurers. An October 2024 Senate Majority Staff Report … Read more
Former Visiting Journalist Tracie McMillan Discusses Her Book: The White Bonus / Russell Sage Foundation
Read the original post here. Tracie McMillan is an independent, award-winning journalist and author. She was an RSF visiting journalist in spring 2022. Her essays and journalism have been published in many publications including the New York Times, Mother Jones, Harper’s, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic. Her first book, The … Read more
Capital & Main: Philadelphia workers want legal protections enforced
Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law Jen Byers, November 12, 2024Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.
White Women for Trump? What’s The Cash Value of Racism in America? / The Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM Radio
Tracie McMillan on her book ‘The White Bonus,’ and white women voters. Great convo with Karen Hunter.
Discussing JD Vance’s White Bonus / Solutions On WURD with Amadee Braxton (radio)
Tracie McMillan joins Amadee Braxton to discuss applying the framework of The White Bonus to JD Vance. You can watch the segment on WURD’s Facebook page here, starting at minute 18:30.
Weekend reads for October 5, 2024 / The Ink (newsletter)
The Ink, a newsletter “On politics and culture, money and power, from Anand Giridharadas,” listed “Being white paid off for JD Vance—by $20 million (at least)” by Tracie McMillan for Reckon News as one of the weekend reads the week of October 5th. Click here to read this issue.
JD Vance’s White Bonus Story Co-Published by Amsterdam News, Cincinnati City Beat
Two publications co-published the article “Being white paid off for JD Vance—by $20 million (at least).” The article is now available in Amsterdam News, co-published on September 30th, 2024. It was also co-published by Cincinnati City Beat on October 1, 2024.