Betsy Morais
Columbia Journalism Review
New York, NY, United States
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A year to turn the page
The year 2020 has been humbling in the face of nature. The coronavirus pandemic rattled the earth and revealed just how unstable the ground beneath us was. For journalists, the avalanche of life-or-death news crashed into an industry already beset by acute financial strain, the warping effects of disinformation, and long-standing inequity. In the print […] → Read More
Outside In
At work in an election season marked by a pandemic and an anti-racist uprising → Read More
Disbelief and Trump’s diagnosis
In the spring of 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower told an elaborate lie. An American U-2 plane, part of a CIA mission to spy on the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile program, was detected by Russian officers and brought down near the town of Sverdlovsk (known today as Yekaterinburg). The fate of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, […] → Read More
Us Versus Him
With Biden in a basement, the story of the 2020 campaign revolves around Trump’s opposition to the American people → Read More
The Story Has Gotten Away from Us
Six months of life and death in America. → Read More
In the Air
China’s environmental journalists must withstand an insidious system that is at once supportive and oppressive → Read More
Jennifer Hudson meets freed Reuters reporters at the Pulitzer lunch
The distribution of the Pulitzer Prizes, in the rotunda of Low Library at Columbia University, one of the stateliest columned rooms this side of the Atlantic, is a perennially anticlimactic affair. The winners are announced weeks ahead. So it was rather stunning when, as servers set down plates of dessert, with chocolates pressed into the […] → Read More
Collusion by any other name
Copies of the report by Robert Mueller have been distributed, like flashlights during a deep fog. What we’ve made out so far, and will continue to see, is a landscape of not only the new but also what had been there all along—what we’d become accustomed to seeing only through the obscured view of heavy […] → Read More
Cohen’s intoxication defense, and ours
During the televised testimony of Michael Cohen, former fixer to Donald Trump, before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, I saw his eyebrows and thought of the noxious browntail moth caterpillar, as two of them appeared to be wriggling up and down his forehead. “Sitting here today, it seems unbelievable that I was so mesmerized […] → Read More
Sportscasting the election
In political journalism, sports metaphors come easy, and this election proved no exception. Winning and losing are shorthand for brute strength, accumulated points, a smart playbook, rather than, say, the collective action of citizens who are up against gerrymandering, voter suppression, racist heckling, long lines, broken machines, rain, and mud. Watching the coverage on television […] → Read More
Glass Half Empty Dept News, Opinion, and Analysis—
A collection of articles about Glass Half Empty Dept from The New Yorker, including news, in-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis. → Read More
Scholarly Advice for Dark Times
Professor Eugene Thacker teaches students at the New School the philosophy of pessimism. → Read More
Can New Jersey Democrats Flip Districts Down the Shore?
Trump’s unpopularity in the state and shifts in recent gubernatorial and Presidential elections have Democrats hoping to flip what were once Republican territories. → Read More
Helping Foreign Artists Cut Through the Red Tape, Pro Bono
Matthew Covey’s work as an immigration fixer has assumed greater urgency in the Trump era. → Read More
What Does a Workspace Built for Women Look Like?
There are more women than ever working in office buildings, but only a quarter of architects are female. Enter Alda Ly. → Read More
Interpretive Protest?
Near City Hall, a dance class called “Body Politic, Somatic Selves” translates movement into a form of resistance. → Read More
How To Be A Dancer
When I was two, my parents took me to see the New York City Ballet production of the Nutcracker. The room went dark, but I wasn’t scared. I saw the bodies on stage fluttering and catapulting, all… → Read More
My Life with Rory Gilmore
When “Gilmore Girls” was on TV, I admired and identified with Rory. Ten years later, as Netflix revives the show, she seems to never have graduated to adulthood. → Read More
My Life with Rory Gilmore
When “Gilmore Girls” was on TV, I admired and identified with Rory. Ten years later, as Netflix revives the show, she seems to never have graduated to adulthood. → Read More
And Now We Wait
As long as it takes. “And Now We Wait” is published by Betsy Morais in The Awl → Read More