When Gloria Chan talks about the work of Green Bean Media, the Hong Kong-focused exile news site she helped found last year in the United Kingdom, she is crisply matter of fact. “We are not doing something that special. Read more
The New York Times had a chance to earnestly grapple with a serious critique of its trans coverage by a serious group of professionals, including journalists The Times believed were credible enough to have a byline in the paper or … Read more
I sat next to Faduma in her tent in Baidoa, Somalia, the morning after her three-year-old daughter Hawa died from malnutrition. She caressed and touched two of her remaining children, over and over, in shock. She sang to them, kissed … Read more
When my wife and I visited New York in December, I wasn’t sure if we’d be safe on the subway, walking up and down the streets, or if it would be wiser to stick to Uber. I’m certain a major … Read more
When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent a hard-to-ignore message that extreme heat has become an increasing danger — not just in … Read more
On the very first day of my “Reporting on Climate Change” class at the Harvard Extension School last August, a student asked if I had any strategies for responding to editors who say there’s not enough room for in-depth climate … Read more
After another year marked by weather extremes globally, from unprecedented heat waves in Europe that saw airport runways buckle to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan that left a third of the country underwater and nearly 1,500 dead, climate … Read more
Driving home from the beach a few weeks ago, I listened to a guest on NPR assert that most of the damage from Hurricane Ian was insured, implying, I imagined, that homeowners would rebuild without too much trouble. Wait, I … Read more
In April 2020, as the pandemic was raging across the United States, Ed Yong noticed that many people he interviewed felt exhausted. They worked in pandemic preparedness or emergency response before the virus was officially found in the United States. Read more
Why would the FBI conduct an unprecedented court-authorized search at the home of a former president of the United States? That is the wrong question for journalists to ask. These are better ones: Why was such a search unprecedented? Have … Read more