Harris was a staff writer and editor at
Slate from 2012 through 2018. She hosted the
Slate podcast
Represent from 2016 to 2018; the podcast covered media created by and/or about women, people of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ community. While at the Times, she joined a number of her colleagues at both the NYT and the
Philadelphia Inquirer in a one-day walkout over issues in the newspapers' coverage of racial justice protests in 2020. Since 2020, Harris has been a co-host of the
NPR podcast
Pop Culture Happy Hour with
Linda Holmes,
Stephen Thompson, and
Glen Weldon.
Santa Claus and Megyn Kelly In December 2013, Harris wrote a piece for
Slate examining the cultural origins of
Santa Claus and suggesting that the near-ubiquitous representation of Santa as
white could be eschewed in favor of a wider symbol, such as an animal. In response to Harris's piece,
Fox News anchor
Megyn Kelly responded by asserting on her program
The Kelly File that "Santa just is white", and stating that the same was true for
Jesus Christ. Kelly's comments drew heavy criticism from a variety of news outlets; in response, Kelly accused her criticizers of "
race-baiting". Harris appeared on
CNN and criticized Kelly's response, stating that Kelly's statements simultaneously played the role of victim and that Kelly downplayed the comments as a joke after the initial backlash. ==References==