Sabrina Tavernise
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I am a National Writer at Large for the New York Times. [email protected]
New York, USA
Joined October 2010
My story from Arkansas: A man with strong views on immigrants who finally met the love of his life, a woman who came illegally. People are glad to see the border closed, but conflicted on deportations. “Everybody wants to enforce the law until it hits home with a personal story.”
He Opposes Illegal Immigration, but Gely Won His Heart
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He Opposes Illegal Immigration, but Gely Won His Heart
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Chris Allred’s views were shaped by economic changes. Now, facing an immigration crackdown, where do he and his wife go from here?
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This is just incredible, this story and footage of a Russian soldier surrendering to Ukrainian drone operators.
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He Told Their Stories of Repression. Now They Are Telling His.
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Evan Gershkovich’s work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on Russians’ efforts to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen...
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This is a must-listen podcast talk between @lourdesgnavarro & her Iraqi colleague Ali Hamdani. This brought up so many emotions for me, including grief over the 2 @nytimes Iraqi colleagues who were killed and many who suffered. A gift listen on the war:
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I won awards covering Iraq, but my Iraqi colleague lost everything.
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Excellent piece on the explosion of older Americans who live alone -- 36% of households headed by someone over 50. By the great @gebeloffnyt @DanaGoldstein
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More older Americans are living by themselves than ever before. That shift presents issues on housing, health care and personal finance.
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The great @lpolgreen in Haiti, finds "a slender but persistent wisp of hope that this is finally the time to declare a kind of political bankruptcy, clear all old political debts and begin anew"
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Haiti is in crisis. If the U.S. wants to help, it needs to stop meddling.
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"I will fight from the inside": How Trump and his generals went to war -- with each other. An excerpt from our new book "THE DIVIDER; Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," with @sbg1 in this week's @NewYorker
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How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
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The great @adamliptak on the case of Dennis Wayne Hope who has been in solitary confinement in Texas for 27 years
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The Supreme Court is to decide whether to hear the case of a Texas prisoner who says his decades in isolation amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment.
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Why the next few weeks is so critical to the future of the war in Ukraine, with @EricSchmittNYT and @Tmgneff
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Moscow has narrowed its goals. What does that tell us about Russia’s military?
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excellent piece on Russians Turning on One Another Over the War by @antontroian
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Citizens are denouncing one another, illustrating how the war is feeding paranoia and polarization in Russian society.
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Targets of new Russian law making speaking against the military a crime: teachers who are being turned in by their students. Important piece by @JeanneWhalen
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The cases are part of a Soviet-style hunt for “traitors” who oppose the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Putin’s War in Ukraine Shatters an Illusion in Russia
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Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea.
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Russia is moving out of authoritarianism — where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features — into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs, one expert argued.
Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea.
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“Putin is so convinced that he cannot afford to lose, that he will escalate,” one expert said of Putin in Ukraine. “He has staked everything on it.”
Russia is moving out of authoritarianism — where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features — into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs, one expert argued.
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Russia is moving out of authoritarianism — where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features — into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs, one expert argued.
Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea.
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Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea.
In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have felt like I am watching someone I love lose their mind.
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In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have felt like I am watching someone I love lose their mind.
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As Russia resets in Ukraine, the city of Mariupol has become Central to Russia's strategy. My colleague, @VALERIEinNYT takes us inside through the account of one woman who managed to escape.
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What the fight for the Ukrainian port city means for the future of the war.
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The history of the war in Chechnya is essential for understanding the future of the war in Ukraine. The great @carlottagall on Putin’s playbook, and how Ukraine is putting it to the test
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Russia’s tactics during the invasion echo a strategy forged during the Chechen wars of the 1990s.
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