Rachel Monroe

4 days ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Monroe

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ‘Don’t touch anything, I’ll meet you at the totem poles in an hour,’ ” Dhody told me. One day, when she was in elementary school, her mother took her to the Mütter Museum. “I don’t think she knew what she was getting into,” Dhody said.

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Monroe

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the Lotto Texas jackpot was seventy-three million dollars. There was no winner that night—there hadn’t been a winner for the past ninety-one drawings—and so the pool of money rolled over. By the next drawing, that Saturday, it had reached ninety-five million. Dawn Nettles started getting worried. For the jackpot to have grown so quickly, sales volume must have been ten times what Nettles thought was normal. “I knew right then,” she told me.

1 month ago | ejewishphilanthropy.com | Rachel Monroe

In eJewishPhilanthropy’s exclusive opinion column “The 501(C) Suite,” leading foundation executives share what they are working on and thinking about with the wider philanthropic field. Ten years ago, I found myself in a room of roughly two dozen Jewish funders and leaders, lamenting a problem we all knew Jewish nonprofits had struggled with for some time: finding and keeping talent, especially at the most senior levels.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Rachel Monroe

Castañeda’s posts made her mother, Luisa, nervous, but Castañeda was convinced that Vente Venezuela would take power. Instead, last July, Maduro declared victory in an election that is widely understood to be corrupt. Protesters thronged the streets, banging pots and pans.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Rachel Monroe

Edgarlys Castañeda Rodríguez, a slight, delicate-featured twenty-seven-year-old from Venezuela, posted makeup tutorials and dance videos to her few thousand followers on Instagram and TikTok, but it was her posts about politics that tended to go viral. In them, she was open about her opposition to President Nicolás Maduro. In one video, Castañeda talked about how politics had driven a wedge between her and her father, a Maduro supporter.