Our guest today is a senior staff writer at ELLE.com where he has written the daily pop culture and politics humor column since 2016. His opinion columns have also been published by The New York Times, among many others. As a playwright, R. Eric Thomas won the Barrymore Award and the Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award and was a finalist for the Steinberg/American Theater Critics Association New Play Award. He is also the long-running host of The Moth Story Slams in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. R. Eric Thomas' first book -- Here for It: Or How To Save Your Soul In America was published last month and is already a national best seller. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices