Hello. I'm Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and a columnist at The Guardian. You can also find my work at The New Yorker, Slate, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, In These Times, and Flaming Hydra. My first book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, will be published by Random House in August 2025.
SubscribeGoodbye, 2025.
Hello and a very happy New Year to you all. I couldn’t be more eager to send 2025 off. I’m both exhausted and grateful that The Right of the People has done well enough to exhaust me. And here I’ll offer one more thank you to all
On Race, Gender, and Journalism
Hello all. This is a little essay on part of another essay that's been making the rounds over the holidays. Expect a proper end of the year post shortly. One of the policy analyst Matt Bruenig’s best recurring bits is pointing out — to inevitable sputtering and pique
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