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1 week ago | 
newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim
Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he and his mother walked through the city’s “blackened ruins”—buildings zapped to ash “as far as the port,” some three kilometres in the distance. “I found the charred body of one aunt at the remains of her house,” he recalled late last year, from a dais in Oslo.
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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim
Orange County Rapid Response Network is a loose association of volunteers—organizers and lawyers and hundreds of concerned residents—who help immigrants fight detention and deportation. On Monday morning, a hotline run by the group received an unusually high number of calls. Uniformed agents from the Department of Homeland Security had been spotted at various locations just west of Santa Ana, the county seat.
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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim
On Friday and Saturday, federal officers descended on streets and workplaces across Los Angeles County to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants.
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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | E. Tammy Kim
Just before 11 P.M. this past December 3rd, the Korean legislator Lee Jae-myung issued a dire warning from a moving car. “My fellow-Koreans, you must come out to the National Assembly,” he said, in a live stream from his phone. The video showed Lee in a dark suit and a royal-blue tie, the color of his Democratic Party. He looked weary and frightened. “Our democracy is collapsing,” he said.
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3 weeks ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Lee Minji |Song Sang-ho |Jin Yu Young |E. Tammy Kim
Quotes of the Day:"Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory.
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1 month ago | 
nplusonemag.com | E. Tammy Kim
A few years ago, my mom’s brother in South Korea, the oldest son, announced that he would be getting rid of their parents’ graves. My grandparents had been buried separately, in far-flung cemeteries, and this uncle and his wife were their keepers. They made several annual visits to the burial mounds (endless gridlock) and prepared Buddhist ceremonies at home (endless cooking and cleaning).
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
