Kevin Lozano Voice Lessons There’s much to learn about independent media from the life and death of The Village Voice. April 11, 2024
Elena Kostyuchenko Russia’s Election Ritual Vladimir Putin has been reelected president in another sham exercise in democracy. April 1, 2024
Nesrine Malik interviews Hamza Syed ‘Neutrality Is Born Out of Laziness’ The co-host of the Serial podcast The Trojan Horse Affair talks about what being Muslim in Britain means today and how journalism can make entrenched Islamophobia visible. April 1, 2022
Scott W. Stern An AIDS Activist’s Archive The obituaries saved by one social worker are, essentially, a list of names and the barest outlines of biography. But in their silences, they contain multitudes. October 29, 2021
Elaine Blair Janet Malcolm’s Subtle Comedy Though famed, even feared, as a writer for the gimlet eye she brought to bear on her subjects, she sometimes turned that ironic gaze on herself. June 30, 2021
Mark Gevisser Crossing the ‘Pink Line’ “Globally, the new battleground is over so-called gender ideology. This is defining the next human rights frontier.” May 8, 2021
Howard W. French A Dispatch from Our Correspondent “The US must learn to discover the sense of purpose that comes from achieving things of virtue, things that have an objective social need.” April 10, 2021
Anjan Sundaram From Wars Abroad, to Peace at Home “As I’ve grown older, I’m more aware of the psychological risks we must take,” says the conflict-zone reporter. “Writing about my father represented such a psychological risk.” February 27, 2021
Batya Ungar-Sargon Popular Journalism’s Day in ‘The Sun’ The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers. December 15, 2020
Jay Rosen The Asymmetric War for Truth The Republican Party—now committed to minoritarian rule, not democracy—needs fictions to sustain its power. And that means a collision with honest journalism. November 1, 2020