David Marchese interviews cellist Yo-Yo Ma on music, politics, culture, the pandemic, stereotypes, and the meaning of life.
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Trevor Noah Is Still Trying to Explain America to Itself. It’s Getting Harder.
For GQ, Wesley Lowery interviews Daily Show host Trevor Noah.
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‘You Just Have to Have a Strong Mind’: Shantonia Jackson on Working in a Nursing Home During the Pandemic
“The structural conditions shaping care work are highly exploitative—and are profoundly linked to the high degree of COVID-19’s spread within both long-term care facilities and the communities that supply their labor force.”
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“What’s Actually Going on in Our Nursing Homes”: An Interview with Shantonia Jackson
Gabriel Winant, a professor at the University of Chicago interviews Shantonia Jackson, a certified nursing assistant (CNA) who works at City View Multicare Center, a nursing home that experienced a major COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote
“What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.”
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Let the Unexpected Expand the Landscape of the Possible
“In general, I try to expect nothing and hope that everything is possible. I want the courage to need very little and demand a lot.”
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“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom
“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.”Â
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Truly Seeing the River: An Interview with Writer Boyce Upholt
Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.
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How To Hide An Empire
Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”
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Your Best Work Comes from Scaring Yourself
Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.