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Steven W. Thrasher

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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