Tracie McMillan

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

Preview: JD Vance’s White Bonus

On September 30, I’ll be publishing a “white bonus” analysis of JD Vance with the good folks at Reckon. I have been deeply unsettled by major media’s willingness to repeat the myth that JD Vance comes from rural poverty. Like me, he was really a suburban Rust Belt kid with a sick mom and abusive childhood. And, … Read more

Being white paid off for JD Vance—by $20 million (at least) / Reckon

By Tracie McMillan See original article Update: The article was also co-published in Amsterdam News and Cincinnati City Beat. JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Republican candidate for vice president, does not talk much about being white. Yet an analysis of public records indicates that more than $20 million has flowed to the self-styled “hillbilly” … Read more

What’s the cash value of being white? / NPR Morning Edition with Michel Martin

Morning Edition, NPR • Michel Martin NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with author Tracie McMillan, whose journalistic memoir — The White Bonus — examines the cash value of institutional racism in the United States. Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1249886153/what-s-the-cash-value-of-being-white-a-white-woman-poses-the-question-about-hers

Review: Book Page (May 2024 starred review)

By Catherine Hollis Acclaimed journalist Tracie McMillan’s muckraking, experiential methods have earned her prizes, acclaim and the special animosity of Rush Limbaugh, a sure sign of the power of her investigative work. With The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Holt, $32.99, 9781250619426), McMillan offers a powerful and necessary … Read more

Review: Booklist

From the review, by Jenny Hamilton: McMillan’s (The American Way of Eating, 2012) family, like many white families, long told a tale of their own history that relied heavily on thrift, good sense, and self-determination. Race did not feature. In The White Bonus, McMillan uncovers the myriad ways in which she and her family benefited … Read more

Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism Journalism That First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epidemic of Corruption

A collection of groundbreaking investigations by Wayne Barrett, the intrepid, muckraking Village Voice journalist who exposed corruption in New York City and beyond. With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption in the pages of the Village Voice fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. The first to report … Read more

19 Great Restaurants to Work For

Food & Wine digital

March 15, 2019

When it comes to working in the average restaurant in America today, there is good news, and there is bad news.

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