E. Tammy Kim

4 days ago | newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim

The Singaporean photographer who goes by the single name Nguan has often felt the same way. He was living in SoHo after college, intending to be a filmmaker, when 9/11 happened. Outside his apartment, on Sullivan Street, he used an early Canon digital camera to document what he saw. “My photographs were really bad,” he told me. “But when I wanted to tell people about that day, nothing I wrote or talked about could convey that reality better.” This was what led him to photography.

1 week ago | dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Natasha Lewis |Michael Kazin |E. Tammy Kim

How Unions Can Protect Immigrants An Interview With Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000. and ▪ Spring 2025 In February the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions’ varying responses to Trump.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim

“Journalists’ work is under fire.” Donald Trump is yanking federal funds from public media. Leaders at NPR-affiliate stations around the country explain why this attack feels different, and what the consequences of defunding would be. Plus:• The Trump deportees turned “ghosts” in the U.S. legal system• Jelani Cobb on Ryan Coogler’s road to “Sinners”• A joyfully chaotic new movie about the indie-rock band PavementE. Tammy KimKim writes about politics and the federal workforce.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim

When Juan joined the Transportation Security Administration, or T.S.A., about seven years ago, he wasn’t sure how long he could afford to stay. He was assigned to staff the screening checkpoint and inspect bags at Palm Springs International Airport, an indoor-outdoor facility at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains, a few hours’ drive east of Los Angeles.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim

In late February, the Office of Management and Budget instructed all federal entities to align themselves with “the President’s America First foreign policy.” It required agencies and private institutions that receive government grants to conduct a kind of self-audit, to weed out foreign programs that do not promote “American prosperity by advancing capitalism, markets that favor Americans, competition for American partnership, and economic self-reliance.” There would be no more “global...