What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America
Steven W. Thrasher on the Brutal Raids by Trump’s Ever-Growing Masked Army
July 21, 2025
By Steven W. Thrasher
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Steven W. Thrasher
Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, CPT, a journalist, social epidemiologist, and cultural critic, holds the Daniel Renberg chair at the Medill School of Journalism, and is on the faculty of Northwestern University’s Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. A former writer for the Village Voice, Scientific American and the Guardian, Thrasher is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. [Photo by C.S. Muncy]
Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward
Steven W. Thrasher on What a Healthy Progressive Coalition Looks Like
June 26, 2025
By Steven W. Thrasher
Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability
Steven W. Thrasher on Two Men Who Are Showing Us a Better Way
June 23, 2025
By Steven W. Thrasher
Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend
Steven W. Thrasher Remembers One of the World’s First AIDS Doctors
April 24, 2025
By Steven W. Thrasher
Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?
For Steven W. Thrasher the Absence of Solidarity Among American Journalists Has Made Donald Trump’s Job That Much Easier
March 12, 2025
By Steven W. Thrasher
What If the Covid Safety Net Had Been a Starting Point For Change?
Steven W. Thrasher Looks Back at America’s Brief Experiment in True Government Care
November 8, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
In American Empire, You’re Either Invading or Being Invaded
Steven W. Thrasher on the Pernicious Narratives That Fuel the Status Quo
October 3, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
False Profits: Why I Am Not Teaching in the Classroom This Fall
Steven W. Thrasher on American Campus Crackdowns on Free Assembly
September 16, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
Why American Journalists Should Be Outraged About the Dozens of Palestinian Journalists Jailed in Israel
"If journalism is not a crime, then it should not be treated as a crime by any government for any journalist."
June 21, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
America’s Campus Witch Hunts Are Only the Second Worst Thing Happening to Professors Right Now
Steven W. Thrasher on the Importance of Global Academic Solidarity
June 3, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
You Are Being Lied to About Gaza Solidarity Camps by University Presidents, Mainstream Media, and Politicians
What Steven W. Thrasher Saw on College Campuses
May 10, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza
Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”
April 16, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
The Social Media Project Humanizing Palestinians Killed By Israel,
One Person at a Time
Steven W. Thrasher Talks with The Martyrs of Gaza
March 25, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
Too Little, Too Late: On American Media Executives’ Hypocritical Support of Palestinian Journalists
“Is collaborating with the soldiers killing our Palestinian colleagues a good way to be in ‘solidarity’ with them?”
March 12, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America
Steven W. Thrasher Wonders Who’s Left to “Afflict the Comfortable”
February 27, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
Journalism as a Front of War:
On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo
Introducing a New Column by Steven W. Thrasher
February 12, 2024
By Steven W. Thrasher
