Kristi Yang

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In February, South Africa criticised Trump's executive order opening the US up to the resettlement of white Afrikaners, saying in a statement that "it is ironic" the US is open to accepting a group "that remains amongst the most economically privileged" while denying vulnerable people from other parts of the world asylum.
South Africa criticises US plan to accept white Afrikaners as refugees
I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf - The New York Times
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf - The New York Times
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue | Vogue
if we listen to reality with infinite patience, if we write as beautifully as possible, we will manage to tell at least one truth and that by doing so there will be one less lie fluttering around in the world.
‘Our Job Is Not to Change the World, but to Continue to Believe That We Can Do So’ - Columbia Journalism Review
we, journalists, almost never change anything.
‘Our Job Is Not to Change the World, but to Continue to Believe That We Can Do So’ - Columbia Journalism Review
if we listen to reality with infinite patience, if we write as beautifully as possible, we will manage to tell at least one truth and that by doing so there will be one less lie fluttering around in the world.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
we, journalists, almost never change anything.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so tempermentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
George Will is a particularly elegant survivor among the generation of columnists ahead of mine those who stay too long risk turning bland or shrill.
Opinion | Confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist - The New York Times
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
Opinion | Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - The New York Times
You’re not Proust. Keep your sentences short and your paragraphs tight.
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Can I defend every single word of it?
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Always offer the other side’s strongest case, not the straw man.
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Delete useless or weasel words such as “apparently,” “understandable” or “indeed.” Project a tone of confidence
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Avoid the passive voice.
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
seeks only to inform
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Readers will look to authors who have standing, either because they have expertise in their field or unique experience of a subject. If you can offer neither on a given topic you should not write about it
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
It is for a broad community of people that you must write, not the handful of fellow experts you seek to impress
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Why does your topic matter? Why should it matter today? And why should the reader care what you, of all people, have to say about it?
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
Younger writers with no particular expertise or name recognition are likelier to get published by following an 80-20 rule: 80 percent new information; 20 percent opinion.
Opinion | Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers - The New York Times
I tend to believe that women acquired the status of human beings when these kinds of acts started to be taken seriously
Men Explain Things to Me – Guernica
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.
Politics and the English Language | The Orwell Foundation
70 to 80 percent of gymgoers live within a 12-minute home or office commute of their gym, according to the International Health, Racquet, and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA)
How Fitness Deserts Keep Some Americans From Great Workouts
Fifty-seven percent of New Yorkers are either overweight or obese.
How Fitness Deserts Keep Some Americans From Great Workouts
Their more serious occupations are sewing and embroidery, and their greatest drudgery, the preparation of jellies and sweet-meats. This, I say, is the state of ordinary women; though I know there are multitudes of those of a more elevated life and conversation, that move in an exalted sphere of knowledge and virtue, that join all the beauties of the mind to the ornaments of dress, and inspire a kind of awe and respect, as well as love, into their male beholders. I hope to increase the number of these by publishing this daily paper, which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an i…
Uses Of The Spectator: by Joseph Addison (1711)
The toilet is their great scene of business
Uses Of The Spectator: by Joseph Addison (1711)
In the basement office of their home, he still keeps his boyhood copy (in Croatian) of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
Some 30 years ago, during an expedition in the North Atlantic, she had seen a bottle of Beck’s beer from an array of cameras being towed a mile or two below the surface. In 2022, in the South Pacific, the headlights of a submersible at the bottom of the Mariana Trench—about seven miles down, the deepest spot in any ocean—picked up the glassy green of another beer bottle resting in the sediment.
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
The three islands define a circle of ocean larger than the old Soviet Union. Point Nemo, at the center, lies 1,670.4 miles from each vertex. For perspective, that is roughly the distance from Manhattan to Santa Fe.
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
If you are on a boat at Point Nemo, the closest human beings will likely be the astronauts aboard the International Space Station
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
The winds are cold and brutal. Waves reach 60 or 70 feet. In a second, a racing boat’s speed can drop from 30 knots to five, then jump back to 30. You may have to ride out these conditions, slammed and jammed, for five days, 10 days, trimming sails from inside a tiny sealed cockpit, unable to stand up fully all that time. To sleep, you strap yourself into a harness. You may wake up bruised.
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
She confessed that she’d first learned about Point Nemo not from a scientific paper but from the 2010 album Plastic Beach, by Damon Albarn’s project Gorillaz.
Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place in the World - The Atlantic
‘I’ve loved men, Terry; I’ve loved women . . .’ she would begin, with a deep sigh. What did the sex of the person matter, after all? Think of Sand herself with Chopin and Marie Dorval. Or Tsvetaeva, perhaps, with Mandelstam and Sophia Parnok.
Terry Castle · Desperately Seeking Susan: remembering Susan Sontag
We were walking down University Avenue, Palo Alto’s twee, boutique-crammed main drag, on our way to a bookshop. Sontag was wearing her trademark intellectual-diva outfit: voluminous black top and black silky slacks, accessorised with a number of exotic, billowy scarves. These she constantly adjusted or flung back imperiously over one shoulder, stopping now and then to puff on a cigarette or expel a series of phlegmy coughs. (The famous Sontag ‘look’ always put me in mind of the stage direction in Blithe Spirit: ‘Enter Madame Arcati, wearing barbaric jewellery.’) Somewhat incongruously, she had…
Terry Castle · Desperately Seeking Susan: remembering Susan Sontag
To this day, when I replay it in my mind, I still get a weird toxic jolt of adolescent joy – like taking a big hit of Crazy Glue vapours out of a paper bag.
Terry Castle · Desperately Seeking Susan: remembering Susan Sontag
campaign finance records
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
Republican credit card
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
publisher paid him $800,000 to write a book
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
extra loan against the value of his home totaling hundreds of thousands
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
$80,000 for a luxury speedboat, state records show
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
Mrs. Rubio’s firm, JDR Events, has had its own bookkeeping
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times
review of the Rubio family’s finances — including many new documents
Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles - The New York Times