Bill Wasik

Feb 11, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Bill Wasik |Monica Murphy

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It is a story of activism and activists like George Thorndike Angell, Henry Bergh, and Caroline Earle White, who propelled the anti-cruelty cause forward.

Feb 7, 2025 | slguardian.org | Monica Murphy |Bill Wasik

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It is a story of activism and activists like George Thorndike Angell, Henry Bergh, and Caroline Earle White, who propelled the anti-cruelty cause forward.

Feb 7, 2025 | nationofchange.org | Bill Wasik |Monica Murphy

This is an adapted excerpt from Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (Knopf Doubleday, 2024). It is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) by permission of Knopf Doubleday. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine.

Jul 9, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Jim Yardley |Jake Silverstein |Bill Wasik

After nine years at Opinion, Max Strasser will shepherd Ideas, tapping into big thinking around the newsroom. Almost a year ago, Joe asked us to create a new initiative for ideas journalism at The Times. The premise was this: In a complex and changing world, there’s a huge and untapped opportunity for our journalists to take on deep, explanatory pieces that introduce the ideas shaping the beats they report on. This impulse led, last October, to the creation of a new weekly feature, slugged Ideas.

May 5, 2024 | marconews.com | Bill Wasik |Monica Murphy |Heather Montgomery |Lindsey Leigh

"Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals" By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy c. 2024, Knopf $35, 464 pages Maybe you have room for one more. The photo of that rescue animal tugged at your heart. Those soft eyes, the little ears, the fat furry paws, one more dog or cat in the family won't matter, will it? After all, what's a house without pets?