Tressie McMillan Cottom, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, is an opinion columnist for the New York Times, where this originally appeared. Her previous article was “Eat ...

TSP Board members Jordyn Wald, Emma Goldstein, Forrest Lovette discuss Tressie McMillan Cottom recent opinion piece in The New York Times on “Dry January”, or avoiding drinking alcohol during the ...

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, the author of “Thick: And Other Essays” and a 2020 MacArthur fellow.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, the author of “Thick: And Other Essays” and a 2020 MacArthur fellow.

Since returning to the White House on January 20, President Donald Trump has — with the help of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — been overseeing a dramatic restructuring ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a New York Times columnist, sociologist, professor, cultural critic, and author.