
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social
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National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer. Book AFTER THE IVORY TOWER FALLS https://t.co/KaIAvvlnc5. Free weekly newsletter: https://t.co/8g2FAYQDEV
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When did college go from maker of the American Dream to breaker? What really caused the hatred of college/non-college divide between Dems, GOP? Is it fixable? I put everything into these questions and my book, After the Ivory Tower Falls. Preorder it now
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life Winner of t...
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From the Orwellian lies to the military intimidation targeting Black people that will soon clash with dissent, everything about Trump's D.C. police takeover reeks of hardcore fascism. Not a distraction. The plan from Day One. My new column
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Plus, Atlanta and a new wave of U.S. mass shooters
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RT @jftaveira1993: .@Will_Bunch: "Friday’s incident was just one of many that have targeted journalists in the roughly 10 weeks since the #….
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On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
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The press freedom crisis in America isn't capitulation at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state. My new column
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On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
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I knew your father. Your father was someone I covered for Newsday in the 1980s. You, sir, are no Mario Cuomo.
In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani . This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.
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RT @TheTNHoller: From @Will_Bunch: “Trump is actually canceling the 2026 midterms, starting in Texas.” https://t.co….
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It used to be a conspiracy theory: Trump will cancel the 2026 midterms. But the Texas remapping outrage is a plan to do exactly that, as gerrymandering spreads to multiple states. The next election will be decided by a computer, not a campaign. My column
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Trump's outrageous push to kill five Dem House seats in Texas triggers a nuclear war that will end representative democracy.
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RT @SamGridley2: "In 1969, a whopping 83% of nationwide incoming college freshmen told UCLA researchers their purpose in going to college w….
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Brown's liberal, open curriculum taught me higher ed wasn't just career prep but reading the great books and learning to be a good citizen. My alma mater's capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage. A personal new column
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Plus, about those "Trump accomplishments"
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RT @Haver_Lisa: .@Will_Bunch: When a bullet shattered Islam’s dreams on Monday, it yet again obliterated the Big Lie about immigrants that….
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The Bangladeshi American cop slain in midtown Manhattan lived an American Dream nothing like the president's Big Lies.
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RT @AceWeiss: I hope this flies, and say good night too, what is so sad here, and it didn't have to happen, Didaru Islam, the slain NYC cop….
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The Bangladeshi American cop slain in midtown Manhattan lived an American Dream nothing like the president's Big Lies.
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Top pols are hailing the slain, Bangladesh-born NYC cop Didarul Islam as a hero today. So why are Islam's fellow dreamers in Bronx's immigrant community afraid to leave home?. How a cop's murder exposed the Big Lie of mass deportation. My new column
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The Bangladeshi American cop slain in midtown Manhattan lived an American Dream nothing like the president's Big Lies.
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RT @Will_Bunch: It wasn't just Colbert. We now know the CBS-Trump capitulation is even worse than we thought, with a "bias monitor" to slan….
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Plus, Josh Shapiro’s muddled message on antisemtism.
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It wasn't just Colbert. We now know the CBS-Trump capitulation is even worse than we thought, with a "bias monitor" to slant the news and the growing likelihood the new owners may also take over TikTok. A bleak media landscape is my new column
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Plus, Josh Shapiro’s muddled message on antisemtism.
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RT @Will_Bunch: Epstein remains the nightly lead story for a media that seems incapable of understanding it, or the middle class anxieties….
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Hours of TV coverage fail to grasp what really matters about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal: the anxieties of the U.S. middle class.
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Epstein remains the nightly lead story for a media that seems incapable of understanding it, or the middle class anxieties that have made a dead financier a stand-in for America's unfairness. Will we address inequality, or burn it all down? My new column
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Hours of TV coverage fail to grasp what really matters about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal: the anxieties of the U.S. middle class.
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RT @Will_Bunch: Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are: migrants in sq….
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Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are: migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column
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Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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