Emily Witt
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
Staff Writer @NewYorker. Author of FUTURE SEX (2016), NOLLYWOOD (2017) and HEALTH AND SAFETY (2024).
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Emily Witt
On Monday afternoon, news broke that seven hundred Marines were being deployed from their base in Twentynine Palms. The 2nd Battalion 7th Marines—known for their battles in Guadalcanal, during the Second World War; Incheon, in Korea; and Helmand Province, in Afghanistan—were now coming to support two thousand members of the California National Guard who had been activated by President Trump last week to respond to Los Angeles protests against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
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2 months ago |
thepreamble.com | Lily Scherlis |Andrew Dubbins |Emily Witt |Adam Kinzinger
Here’s what you might have missed this week:How does today’s texting scandal compare to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Also: Are people being denied entry to the US because they were critical of the Trump administration? An abrupt about-face in Canada that dissolved the government, and details of a Supreme Court ruling on guns. Donald Trump claims that because Joe Biden used an autopen when signing pardons for the members of the Jan.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
newyorker.com | Emily Witt
Secret-keepers of the rich and famous. Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida, where power is amassing among the affluent—and among their staff. Plus:• Why Benjamin Netanyahu is returning to warEmily Witt Witt has been writing about politics, culture, sexuality, and night life for the magazine since 2015. Late June is arguably the worst season of the year in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
newyorker.com | Emily Witt
This past summer, on a visit to Palm Beach, Florida, I met a nanny named Jovana Capric at a coffee shop at the Breakers, the historic oceanside luxury resort, built in 1926. It was late June, the season when the town’s wealthy residents leave for Nantucket, the Hamptons, or Europe. The used tea sets at the Church Mouse, a local charity shop, had all been picked through; the mansions along Ocean Boulevard were shuttered and dark at night.
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Mar 25, 2025 |
newyorker.com | Emily Witt
On a recent Saturday, a group of rank-and-file Democrats, standing in the blinding midday sun on a football field in Tucson, Arizona, spoke about their frustrations with their party. “They’re not stepping up,” a retired nurse named Mark Creal said. “No spine, no backbone,” he added.
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RT @NewYorker: In L.A., is the military playing the role of an ordering force—or an occupying one? @embot reports. https://t.co/k05WwyXqon
Boston-area followers, there's a fundraising gala for the Altadena family I wrote about in January who lost their homes https://t.co/ndJPRgs1u2
I wrote about Bernie and AOC in Tucson for @NewYorker
At the “Fight Oligarchy” tour stop in Arizona, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hammered home a single message: the government has been taken hostage by a cabal of billionaires, and the only way to wrest it back is by unifying the working class. https://t.co/zBsxDq0TEn
