Xanthe Scharff

Jan 14, 2025 | thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Xanthe Scharff

Los Angeles Fires — 6 min read The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. By the time Kristin Crowley was named fire chief of Los Angeles in March 2022, she had been with the department for almost a quarter of a century. During her 22-year career there, she had been a firefighter, a paramedic, an engineer, a fire inspector, a captain, a battalion chief, an assistant chief, and the deputy chief.

Jan 9, 2025 | thepersistent.com | Xanthe Scharff |Hyesu Lee |Emma Haslett

Technology — 2 min read The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Since Twitter—now X—was bought by Elon Musk, user experience on the platform has worsened.

Jan 8, 2025 | thepersistent.com | Xanthe Scharff |Hyesu Lee |Francesca Donner

The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Over the past few weeks, as equality advocates have called on President Joe Biden to use the final days of his presidency to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, many questions have been asked about the legal hurdles for ratification and what—despite a century-long fight—is still preventing gender equality from being enshrined in the United States Constitution.

Jan 7, 2025 | thepersistent.com | Xanthe Scharff |Hyesu Lee |Francesca Donner |Emma Haslett

Violence against women and girls — 5 min read The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Atop an article that ran in The New York Timeson Jan. 4, there’s an old photo of a young woman named Debbie Kawam. She’s pictured sitting in a sun-dappled patch of grass on what looks to be a summer’s day. One leg is stretched out in front of her; an elbow is propped up on the other leg. She’s dressed in high-waisted shorts and a white T-shirt.

Aug 7, 2024 | arabalears.cat | Anne-Marie Slaughter |Xanthe Scharff

El 19 de juliol, el secretari d'Estat nord-americà, Antony Blinken, va dir que les negociacions sobre un acord per alliberar els ostatges retinguts a Gaza i declarar un cessament del foc s'estaven acostant a la meta final. Aquest acord, que s'hauria d'haver aconseguit fa molt de temps, podria establir les bases per a un acord de pau. Després, la mort del líder palestí Ismail Haniyeh va tornar a inflamar el Pròxim Orient.