The writer says his goal is to get better and better at telling more clearly, compellingly and persuasively the complicated, contextualized, nuance stories. "I think complication can be at the heart of good narrative journalism," he writes. He's been writing opinion pieces for as long as he has had a job in journalism. But over this past year,. i have said, and also, i'm sick of the sound in my own voice"
Rebecca Traister is a writer for New York and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Her latest article is "The Necessity of Hope."
“A big motivation of this piece, which I think is framed in this there’s still reason to hope is actually the inverse of that. Which is: Let us be crystal clear about what is happening, what is lost, what is violated. The cruelty, the horror, and the injustice, and that is it only moving toward worse right now. And to establish that to then say that it is the responsibility to really absorb that, and then figure out how to move forward.”
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