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E. Tammy Kim

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. In 2020 she was the Distinguished T. Anthony Pollner Professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism. In 2021 she will be the James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz. (December 2020)

Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

Korea’s radical history, told through the eyes of the colonial-era activist and organizer Kim San.

Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in China

by Kim San and Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow), edited by George O. Totten III and Dongyoun Hwang, and with an introduction by Arif Dirlik

December 17, 2020 issue

Carroll Fife, director of the Oakland chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and a representative of Moms 4 Housing, in front of a homeless encampment in Oakland, California, January 28, 2020

Moms 4 Housing: A Dramatic Eviction Revisited

Taken as a whole, the emails released by Alameda County reveal a struggle to coordinate a response to mass protest—in the context of an otherwise ordinary eviction.

April 22, 2020

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

March 29, 2020

Moms 4 Housing activist Dominique Walker standing in front of 2928 Magnolia Street, the house the group occupied starting in November 2019, declaring that housing is “a human right,

Moms 4 Housing & the Right to a Home

In Oakland, a coordinated, grassroots response to the housing emergency is revealing new potential for inspiring change.

March 9, 2020

Maribel Hernández Rivera and her husband, Giddel Contreras, a TPS holder from Honduras, Queens, New York, July 20, 2019

Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy

This week, on August 14, a federal appeals court will hear oral argument from attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security, on the one hand, and Temporary Protected Status holders, on the other, as to whether the terminations should occur as originally scheduled. For Maribel Hernández Rivera, the litigation is personal.

August 14, 2019

Activists and community members who opposed Amazon's plan to move into Queens rallying in celebration of Amazon's decision to pull out of the deal, Long Island City, Queens, February 14, 2019

Do Corporations Need Public Assistance?

More transparency from the outset would enable citizens to test the strength of economic-impact analyses, examine a company’s track record, and query elected officials about future impacts on land, water, housing costs, and social services. This opportunity is what the opponents of Amazon HQ2, in New York, were refused.

March 14, 2019

#KoreaToo

A short novel not primarily focused on sexual violence has become a cultural touchstone for Korea’s version of the Me Too movement.

82 nyeon saeng Kim Ji-young [Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982]

by Cho Nam-joo

March 7, 2019 issue

Striking teachers and their supporters rallying on the second day of the teachers strike, downtown Los Angeles, January 15, 2019

The Striking Demands of LA Teachers

The United Teachers Los Angeles union’s demand for more school counselors, in particular, emerged more strongly than in other recent teacher strikes—because, striking teachers said, of the increasingly acute needs of the majority brown and working-class student population in LA’s public schools.

January 23, 2019