Jason Stanford

Dallas

Founder and Writer at The Experiment

Cowriter of NYT best-selling Forget the Alamo. Currently: @dallasisd. Ex: @austinisd, @HKStrategies_US, @MayorAdler, @ppfa, @OppResearchSC, Ann Richards

Articles

“You can tell them I said go to hell”

1 week ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!When my friend said the thing that broke my heart, at first I misunderstood him. We’d been talking about his job in London and his prospects for graduate school there when he casually dropped the bomb without preamble. “My mom didn’t want me to come home,” he said.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

2 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:Here’s Karl Rove on what Trump gets wrong about William McKinley. (free link)OK, Jonathan Chait makes a Chaitian point in favor of the tariffs that I was prepared to hate but ended up ceding. (free link)Then again: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity.” Right on, Hillary Clinton.
"I am not ready to admit defeat"

2 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!By the time the Austin Strategic Housing Plan came to a vote, everyone on the City Council had had their say. Regular people had signed up to testify for or against the plan for three minutes each.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

3 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Looking for Waste, Trump Found Heroes

3 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!In late January, the Trump administration abruptly shut down the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab that has been tracking down Ukrainian children stolen by Russia. Last week, the Yale HRL received a surprising reprieve. This might sound like good news.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

4 weeks ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:Kara Swisher is the most important public thinker right now. h/t Elie Jacobs (gift link)If you don’t have an opinion about “The Vanishing White Male Writer,” do you even write, bro? (Jacob Savage)Anti-social media is ruining the quality of our suffering. These two scientists have a plan to fix that.
America's Chemical Change

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!First off, thanks to those of you (there were a lot!) who donated to Eddie Villa’s GoFundMe to pay for his palliative care. His doctors say there’s nothing left to do for his colon cancer, and Eddie deserves to enjoy what’s left of his young life.
Your Mid-Week Experiment

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free. Let’s get right to it:Doctors have told a young man who worked for me that there’s nothing more they can do for his cancer. He’s at peace with it, and he needs money to pay for “cover costs related to insurance premiums, natural treatments, medical equipment expenses, etc.” Basically, he wants the end of his life to be comfortable.
Efficiency isn't the Point of Government

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

This is the always free, reader-supported weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!Gonna make this a short one. Last week I took my own advice and sought joy. And what did I find? In the words of Dani Rojas, I found mucho, mucho joy. Drove 2,400-plus miles to Sarasota and back.
Joy is the New Resistance

1 month ago | jasonstanford.substack.com | Jason Stanford

Welcome to the weekend edition of The Experiment, your official hopepunk newsletter. If you’d like to support my work, become a paid subscriber or check out the options below. But even if you don’t, this bugga free. Thanks for reading!For a decade, Marc Maron has been warning us that this was going to happen, but did we listen? Well, yes, at least I did, because twice a week he’s been dropping WTF, his OG podcast, on our feeds.