My latest column at America magazine explains why, with 100 channels on Roku, I keep ending up watching old movies on HBO:
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Notable work
- What is Christmas without the department store? (Boston Globe)
- Cato Institute: Choosy voters choose smaller government
- Obamacare and motherhood
- "Girls" and the sitcom fantasy of being rescued from yourself
- The 10 worst things about Boston
- "Diversity density" in Boston and elsewhere (Boston Globe Ideas)
- A typology of stupid sitcom characters
- Where were Obama's biggest gains for the Democrats in 2008?
- Everywhere an outlier: What each state does best in presidential politics
- 10 regions of Massachusetts politics: How Deval Patrick won
- Tom Menino and the art of "satisficing"
- Last call: The disappearance of Boston's gay bars
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Recent Posts
- Dear God, let me vote for someone younger than me before I die
- Reading the news is torture enough. Watching TV shouldn’t be.
- Nobody trusts anybody, and that's great news for authoritarians
- Don't shoot in the subway, darling
- Replacement theory and NIMBYism have the same racist roots
- Yes, population decline is bad
- Second shot, second shot at life?
- How immigration affects the three Americas
- 14 maps on how the Democrats and Republicans carved up America
- Why You Will Be Single With the Wrong Person
Television
- How has the culture of TV (and TV-watching) changed? (The A.V. Club)
- In Defense of the Multi-Camera Sitcom (Jaime Weinman)
- A Very Special Episode (The A.V. Club)
- Harry's Law (actually about TV's bizarre ratings system) (Emily VanDerWerff)
- Undercover Black Man: Thoughts on theme
- 22 TV Opening-Credit Sequences That Fit Their Shows Perfectly (A.V. Club)
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