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Sep 7, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Eric Klinenberg
Do you remember the heat dome that settled over Washington and Oregon in 2021, leading to thousands of hospitalizations and over 600 estimated fatalities? Or last summer's heat wave in Phoenix, when the temperature hit or exceeded 110 degrees for 31 straight days, accounting for most of Maricopa County's 645 heat-related deaths in 2023? In typical years, more Americans die in heat waves than in hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Eric Klinenberg
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the beginning of a new conference with members of the coronavirus task force, including Vice President Mike Pence in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump updated the American people about what his administration's 'whole of government' response to the global coronavirus outbreak.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Eric Klinenberg
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the beginning of a new conference with members of the coronavirus task force, including Vice President Mike Pence in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump updated the American people about what his administration's 'whole of government' response to the global coronavirus outbreak.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
time.com | Eric Klinenberg
IdeasMarch 22, 2024 12:02 PM EDTKlinenberg, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, is the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Eric Klinenberg
In the spring of 2020, New York briefly found itself at the centre of the biggest plague to visit the world in more than a century. The coronavirus ripped through the city’s crowded tower blocks, and hospital emergency rooms were filled with desperately ill patients. Ironically, no neighbourhood was worse affected than Corona in Queens. By the second week of April, the Covid-19 mortality rate in Corona was 85 per 100,000 residents, more than twice the city average.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Nabil Amr |Eric Klinenberg
We are back at the hypothetical press conference held by a senior US official after the conclusion of the American National Security Council meeting in which the US administration has announced that the last remaining US troops were pulled out of Iraq.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Nabil Amr |Eric Klinenberg |Hazem Saghieh
Two years already! And how much longer? This is what comes to mind as the war in Ukraine enters its third year with no prospect of an end in sight. Because war is a matter of here-and-now one shouldn’t expect those who fight it to think of its aftermath. Belligerents who do so often end up losing the war. In the current war the stakes are so high that imagining an end of it in terms of winner-and-loser is mind-boggling.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Eric Klinenberg |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Andrea Bernstein
Covid numbers recently climbed again. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again reported monthly death tolls in the thousands. Mask mandates are back in New York City’s public medical facilities and nursing homes. The presidential race has kicked into gear, and just as in 2020, the stakes seem existential. It all makes me feel I’m revisiting a past I never actually left. I’m not the only one wrestling with that feeling. In other ways, 2020 seems like another lifetime.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Eric Klinenberg |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
Regardless of the polls showing a decline in popular support, and despite ongoing excavation efforts to dig up a body to run things after this war, particularly in Gaza, bets are on the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization once again. Both are organs of a single body that enjoys Palestinian, regional, and international legitimacy.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Chris Hayes |Eric Klinenberg
2020 was undoubtedly one of the most consequential years in history. The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with other cascading crises, can still be felt in almost every facet of our lives. Our guest this week points out that in order to heal, we must take time to reckon with what we lived through.
