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Matt Hartman

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As seen in: The Assembly, Bloomberg CityLab, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Indy Week, In These Times, The Washington Spectator, Scalawag, CityView Magazine, Border Belt Independent
Covers:  Politics, culture, economics, and all the places those things intersect.
higher ed reporter for @TheAssemblyNC. other bylines, @newrepublic @ringer @jacobin. live crabs stay humble. matt@theassemblync.com
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Eight Years Ago, Chapel Hill Enacted the Most Progressive Affordable Housing Policy in the Triang...

Eight Years Ago, Chapel Hill Enacted the Most Progressive Affordable Housing Policy in the Triang...

Indy Week — When Chapel Hill Town Council members began debating a mandatory inclusionary zoning ordinance in 2005, they knew they were entering a legal gray area. But their goals weren't revolutionary. The housing market was booming, and developers were building wherever possible.
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What would improve life in the rural South? Ask rural Southerners

What would improve life in the rural South? Ask rural Southerners

Scalawag — Down Home North Carolina did just that. The answers they got challenge prevailing assumptions about the South's rural communities.
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In Praise of Ordinary Art

In Praise of Ordinary Art

Propeller — It's not possible to fully understand why this change has come about without accounting for the ways the multimedia conglomerates who dominate the culture industry have built business models around the ongoing flow of commentary-one of the many fronts in what some call the culture war.
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A Highway to Progress, Foiled By Old Values

A Highway to Progress, Foiled By Old Values

CityLab — A Carolinian drives along a familiar road to make sense of what exists in between the South's most regressive and progressive narratives.
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Against Personal Politics

Against Personal Politics

The Awl — We've abandoned politics for consumption.Image: Brooke CagleOnce, as a way of summing up his feelings on Che Guevara, my college history professor warned, "All of you wearing Che T-shirts are the first ones he would put against the ...
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Overcoming Individualism

Overcoming Individualism

Democratic Left — DSA’s recent growth has been well celebrated. But while it is a sign of hope, it would be a mistake to assume that this path will lead to the socialist movement we want, because who is joining DSA and how they relate to the rest of the world is just as important as how many of us there are.
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Democratic Discontent

Democratic Discontent

The Washington Spectator — What should leftists focused on resisting Donald Trump do to better understand and address the concerns of those who supported him?
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Mind the Food Gap: Who Does Farm-to-Table Serve?

Mind the Food Gap: Who Does Farm-to-Table Serve?

Indy Week — The Eddy Pub in Saxapahaw is not trying to rip you off by charging twelve dollars for a burger, says owner Claire Haslam. She explains that the restaurant she and her partner opened in the renovated mill at the center of Saxapahaw's development boom, the one they describe as a "central gathering place for the community," aims to build a model that's economically viable for everyoneincluding farmers and their staff.
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The Farm-To-Table Movement and Rural Gentrification

The Farm-To-Table Movement and Rural Gentrification

CityLab — As the food trend spreads, its impact and limitations on actual, real-life farms and farming communities becomes more visible.
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Accounting for Home

Accounting for Home

Blunderbuss — "Home isn't a place, but a method."
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The State of the Triangle's Beer Scene

The State of the Triangle's Beer Scene

Indy Week — The Triangle's beer scene is at an inflection point. On the one hand, even Margo Knight Metzger, the executive director of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild, has so much trouble keeping up with the growth that she has to check her records before she can tell me how many breweries we have. In the end, I get a list of forty—which is out of date almost immediately, thanks to yet another opening.
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#Content: Expanding Entertainment, Collapsing Criticism - Los Angeles Review of Books

#Content: Expanding Entertainment, Collapsing Criticism - Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books — Matt Hartman discusses the future of video journalism and the increase in entertainment coverage and decrease in critical judgment.
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What It Means to Believe Prisoners

What It Means to Believe Prisoners

Jacobin Magazine — Ending the racist prison system begins with telling the truth about its injustices.
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Garden and Gut

Garden and Gut

The Awl — Bullock's Barbecue has been open since 1952. Located in Durham, North Carolina, a block off of a commercial highway and across from a Coca-Cola bottling plant, you can still ...
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The Radical Collective Action of Disney's "Newsies" Is Still Relevant Today

The Radical Collective Action of Disney's "Newsies" Is Still Relevant Today

In These Times — Roughly halfway through the 1992 Disney musical Newsies, the eponymous group of young, mostly white newspaper boys comes together in the middle of a public square for a song-and-dance routine whose chorus goes: Nothing can break us No one can make us give our rights away Arise and seize the day
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White Silence Is Tragic Silence

White Silence Is Tragic Silence

Scalawag — Even the words most celebrated as poignant criticisms of racist violence are permeated with this false forgiveness.
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Branding the Commons

Branding the Commons

Jacobin Magazine — Real-estate companies are shamelessly converting public spaces into their own personal brands.
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