Anya Kamenetz

2 weeks ago | thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz

Hello friends!I’m a journalist with two decades of experience. Since Trump’s second inauguration I’ve been sending you a weekly, highly curated list of top stories, bright spots, and action steps, helping you navigate the mayhem, focusing on the topics of this newsletter: caregiving, youth, climate change, human rights, mental health. I do NOT cover pseudo-events or speculation, only real events with real impact on real people.

3 weeks ago | thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz

Hello friends. I’m so sick of everything falling apart. By sick of I don’t mean “I have broadly negative feelings about it.” I do, of course. I mean I’m actually bored by it. In this moment. The fascist takeover layered on top of a climate crisis, a genocidal war in Gaza, a grinding war in Ukraine, and everything, everything else. This is getting boring. Predictably terrible, repetitive and so, so exhausting. The first few months of 2025, after the inauguration, I was surfing waves of adrenaline.

3 weeks ago | thecut.com | Anya Kamenetz

Photo: Courtesy of Megan Madison A ponytailed woman in a yellow hoodie stepped to the mic at the April meeting of the Community Education Council of Public School District 2, which covers Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhoods. She was there, inside the windowless gray auditorium of Lab Middle School on West 17th Street, to support a resolution the council passed in March 2024 calling for the city to “review” its guidance that allows trans girls to play school sports.

4 weeks ago | thegoldenhour.substack.com | Anya Kamenetz

Hello friends. Happy Mothers’ Day. I got a note from a reader last week telling me how both she and her kids are going through it. Learning about environmental disasters in school, with no place to put those feelings. Triggered by unseasonable weather. Her ten-year-old saying sadly at dinner that the world will be broken by the time she grows up.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Anya Kamenetz

Erica Solove remembers December 30, 2021, like it was yesterday. She was at home in Superior, Colorado, a Boulder suburb at the foot of the Rockies. “It was an extremely windy day,” she says. “Hurricane-force winds. And we quickly realized it’s not just wind coming down the mountain – it’s fire.” She grabbed her napping two-year-old daughter out of her crib while her husband scooped up their five-year-old son.