Ms. Nathan wrote to Ms. Abel: “And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It’s actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html
Ms. Roshchyna was known as a brave, stubborn and driven journalist. Soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she joined a humanitarian convoy and tried to cross into the besieged southeastern port city of Mariupol, as almost everyone else was trying to leave. Russian forces captured her in March. They released her a week later, after beating her, she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/world/europe/ukraine-journalist-viktoria-roshchyna-dead.html
The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/afghanistan-allies-enemies-nuristan-taliban.html
And they did. In their search for Al Qaeda, they detained farmers and shepherds, dropped enough bombs to level a mountain and killed innocents, including a vehicle full of teenagers who failed to stop at a checkpoint.
With public outrage growing, Mullah Osman’s popularity soared. He took more risks, ambushing foot patrols and lacing the dirt roads with explosives. With each skirmish, he spotted the tendencies and the vulnerabilities of the Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/afghanistan-allies-enemies-nuristan-taliban.html
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the country tries to discern the fate of people the regime locked away.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/searching-for-loved-ones-in-a-newly-liberated-syrian-prison
For years, as reports of atrocities filtered out, Bashar al-Assad remained in power, propped up by Russian and Iranian allies. As I entered one hallway, a woman in a robe began shouting, “Now you come to look. Why didn’t you come before? Why didn’t you believe us? Why didn’t you hear us when we said they were killing us!” After a moment, she moved on, but a nearby man began shouting, too. He wanted revenge, nothing less or more. He would get a weapon and kill the Alawites—Assad’s sect, which some members of Syria’s Sunni majority see as complicit in his repression. The man vowed to kill every man, every woman, and every child he saw.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/searching-for-loved-ones-in-a-newly-liberated-syrian-prison
Jokes about spinach, laundry, politics, and “The Bear” proved popular among the scrollers and double-tappers this year.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/instagrams-favorite-new-yorker-cartoons-in-2024
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/instagrams-favorite-new-yorker-cartoons-in-2024
Police knew she was selling fake Percocet but did not stop her. His mother sought the right treatment for his addiction but could not find it. Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/teens-fentanyl-percocet-green-bay-wisconsin-maylia-sotelo-jack-mcdonough
With their mom caught up in her own addiction, Marianna took the girls in. Often, when she crisscrossed the city selling, Maylia sat shotgun, looking out for cops. She took photos of her sister, draped in long, neon-orange wigs, smirking next to 4-foot stacks of cash. Sometimes, they flashed fans of bills together
The magazine explored Asian American culture, without dwelling too much on what that meant.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-giant-robot-captured-asian-america
You are lucky if you ever feel this way, because now you have to do something else—something you will claim as your own.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-giant-robot-captured-asian-america
The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/conner-omalley-is-the-bard-of-the-manosphere
The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/conner-omalley-is-the-bard-of-the-manosphere
