Emma Goldberg
@emmabgo
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A year ago, on October 7, the peace activist Vivian Silver was killed in her kibbutz home. Vivian was my mom’s lifelong friend. For @NYTmag I wrote about how Vivian’s son has turned into grief into a political vision, and remade his life
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The son of a peace activist brutally killed on Oct. 7 is determined to make sure that her dream for Israel does not die with her.
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NEW: I talked with women across the country facing a wave of anti-birth control messaging. Some are going off the pill — and some are now pregnant.
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As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women with messages about the pill, many are questioning what they’ve long been told.
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RT @rcobooth: one spoiler: there’s no conspiracy to cover up cash transfer research.
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What new research on guaranteed income means — and doesn’t.
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This is such gutting and powerful reporting from @kashhill
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More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
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"The prospect of universal child care 'gave us hope that we might be able to stay in New York,' Ms. Mendoza said, 'and that we might be able to raise our daughter in the place that made us.'” Amazing reporting from @elizashapiro
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Zohran Mamdani’s coalition in the New York mayor’s race includes residents who have questioned whether they can afford to raise children in the city.
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I love @hhavrilesky and love her post disagreeing with me on self-help
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Never listen to anyone who thinks that self-improvement is inherently selfish. Cultivating firm boundaries and celebrating your desires will make you more loving and generous, not less.
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I joined @marysdesk and @Slate to talk about Katie Miller, the womanosphere and the politics of wellness podcasts
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Women with talk shows—telling you to leave your job and stay home.
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RT @mjchiusano: “Americans have always loved to believe that the gap between you and a better you is as small as making the right breakfast….
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Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn.
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I wrote about the history of self-help books as a mirror of the moment -- from Dale Carnegie to Dear Abby -- and why it's alarming that the best-selling self-help today is all about being more selfish.
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Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn.
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RT @charlesornstein: Must-read story out of Louisiana. An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to K….
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Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured...
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RT @boreskes: NEW: A forceful Italian-American politician loses a bruising NYC Dem. primary. Unwilling to give up, he continues running a….
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Mario Cuomo’s failed mayoral campaign was a training ground for his son Andrew, who would mount his own bid decades later.
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RT @charlesornstein: The dangerous consequences of misinformation: How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters
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Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a...
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RT @farnazfassihi: Peace Changed the Village Where War Changed Me. This is the village where I lost my legs. Fifteen years ago, it was a wa….
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Fifteen years after a combat photographer lost his legs to a land mine, he returned to the place in Afghanistan where it happened.
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RT @benchansfield: Can't express how much this review of BORN IN FLAMES by Brian Goldstone in the NYT means to me. Goldstone's THERE IS N….
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RT @brian_goldstone: During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor neighborhoods across the US. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlord….
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RT @steveschale: NYT's @emmabgo recently did a piece on one of my favorite small towns in America: Canton, NC. Canton, a place hit by both….
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Locals in Canton, N.C., are trying to figure out what’s next after losing the thing that gave them an identity: their beloved, stinky paper mill.
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RT @boreskes: NEW: Former Gov. @andrewcuomo has overhauled his campaign strategy as he continues his bid to become mayor of New York City o….
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Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has overhauled his campaign strategy as he continues his bid to become mayor of New York City on a third-party line.
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RT @shane_bauer: For my 8-month investigation into the Assad regime's forced disappearance of children, I tracked down kids I found in clas….
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In Syria, the Assad regime took hundreds of children away from their parents. A Times investigation reveals the workings of the operation — and how one family fought to reunite.
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RT @hannahdreier: It’s the height of wildfire season right now and thousands of firefighters are out in toxic smoke with only bandannas for….
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