Carrie Kaufman

Las Vegas

Columnist @NevadaCurrent. Fmr talk host @KNPRnews @wpr, writer, editor, speaker, mom to amazing twin daughters. Obsessed with learning EVERYTHING! She/Her Queer

Articles

"They Belittle Us"

6 days ago | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

Back in 2016, I took my recorder and mic to a parking lot outside of a grocery store in Las Vegas. I was gathering answers to a question NPR was posing to listeners - and asking member stations to record. The question was about anxiety in the voting public. Talk about an understatement. I talked to a man, Nicholas, from Iran who was an engineer. He came to this country at the age of 15 during the revolution. Which means, when I was talking to him in 2016, he was in his 50s.
Emergency live: let’s be loud!

Feb 20, 2025 | adamkinzinger.substack.com | Adam Kinzinger |Carrie Kaufman |Sylvia Martinez |Becky Schmidt

I’m terrified by America’s fascism trend and disgusted that my party is now a Trump cult. My time inside the system and in the probe of the January 6 attack has left me with just an ember of hope. Making it grow requires the hard truth. Can we handle it? I’m terrified by America’s fascism trend and disgusted that my party is now a Trump cult. My time inside the system and in the probe of the January 6 attack has left me with just an ember of hope. Making it grow requires the hard truth.
How the New York Times Political Coverage is Like Eliza Dushku’s Sexual Harassment Legal Case

Sep 8, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

This past Thursday, A.G. Suzlberger wrote a 4,100-word opinion piece for the Washington Post. I did a double take when I saw the byline, because I was certain I had opened the WaPo app, not the app for the New York Times, which Sulzberger publishes.* But the headline was, in fact, in small cap sentence form (as opposed to the first letter in every word capped in Times headlines). And the WaPo logo was on the top of my screen.
We Will Not Be Pawns for the Prince of Darkness

Aug 11, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

“My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark,” wrote Emily Saliers in “Prince of Darkness,” the fourth song on the Indigo Girls’ 1989 self-titled album. The duo - whose song “Closer to Fine” from the same album was the centerpiece of last year’s blockbuster “Barbie” movie - were singing about bad romance, but also the desperate choices that life gives us.
America’s Holocaust

Jul 1, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

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What is Worse for Democracy? Sharks or Lies?

Jun 16, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

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The Radicalization We Refuse to See

Jun 2, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

A friend of mine relayed a conversation she had with someone the day after the verdict came in on Trump’s New York fraud case. As my friend relayed it, her companion couldn’t figure out what the big deal was. “So, he had sex with a porn star and and paid her hush money. All politicians lie. People get paid hush money all the time. That’s what non-disclosure agreements are about.”My friend calmly explained that this wasn’t a “hush money” case, this was an “election fraud” case.
Too Many Books?

May 15, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

The other day, I noticed my Kindle wasn’t showing my Library tab on the home page. When I opened the Kindle app, it took me to the book I had just finished. I couldn’t figure out how to find the rest of my books. This sent me into a panic. I called Amazon. It was 9pm Vegas time. Got in touch with a tech guy from overseas right away. He looked up my account, and as it started populating on his end, he said, “I see your books. You have 70… no 85… no 120… no… you have over 300 books.
How Good Government Works

Apr 28, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

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NPR’s Uri Berliner Exposes How Liberal Racism Works (part 1)

Apr 14, 2024 | carriekaufman.substack.com | Carrie Kaufman

By now, many of you may have at least heard of the Uri Berliner piece roundly criticizing NPR for being too woke. Except he didn’t say woke. He said NPR is “telling listeners how to think” and “ignoring its core audience.”By which he means, liberal cis-white men like himself, whom he describes as “EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite.”I read this story when it came out on Tuesday with disbelief and anger.