Amy Wilentz

Jan 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Amy Wilentz |Freddy Gray |Thomas Lambert |Juan Villasmil

For a politician known for his ability to shock, Donald Trump managed to outdo himself with his baseless claim during last year’s presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing, butchering and eating household pets. Regardless of this racist lie — new Haitian immigrants to Ohio do not eat people’s pets and are in the main perfectly respectable — Haiti itself is a mess and a good place to flee.

Jan 16, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Amy Wilentz

From childhood, Angelenos know something bad is coming. Something bad is always on its way. You could argue that all children begin to understand this fact about life (that death ends it) from about the age of 5, but here it’s different. From childhood, Angelenos feel and see the bad things, like fires and days-long deluges, like earthquakes and mudslides, with a frequency people not from here associate only with news stories from elsewhere. The big one is on its way. Shrug. We act like we don’t care.

Oct 11, 2024 | townandcountrymag.com | Amy Wilentz

In light of the news that President Biden is dropping out of the 2024 election, and has endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, we're resharing this story from 2020. Within a week of each other this past August, two California politicians, both women, took to the television screen for important speeches, one at the Democratic National Convention, one at the Republican. They presented a startling contrast.

Sep 22, 2024 | johnacarroll.substack.com | Amy Wilentz

September 11, 2024After years of strenuously ignoring the country’s agony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally visited Haiti last week. For five hours.

Sep 11, 2024 | thenation.com | Amy Wilentz

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