Emily Witt
Emily Witt has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2018. She has covered breaking news and politics from around the country, and has written about culture, sexuality, drugs, and night life. She is the author of the books “Future Sex,” “Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire,” and “Health and Safety.” Her journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in n+1, the Times, GQ, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books, and have been anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing 2011,” “Say What You Mean: the n+1 Anthology,” and “Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir from the London Review of Books.” She has reported from many countries and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique.
Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.
On the Ground During L.A.’s Wildfire Emergency
With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.
The End of Kamala Harris’s Campaign
At Howard University, a sombre crowd came out to support their candidate and witness history.
The Obamas Campaign for Kamala Harris
In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.
Door-Knocking in Door County
A bellwether county in Wisconsin appears evenly divided in the final stretch.
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities
At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
The Democratic Party Rebrands Itself Before Viewers’ Eyes
With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy.
A Mood of Optimism at Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Stop
Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.
The Last Rave
In the summer of 2020, I felt as if I’d entered the wrong portal, out of the world I knew and into its bizarro twin.
Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas
The documentary “Love to the Max” captures one family’s determination to live authentically in an anti-trans political climate.
The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1
How climate change is threatening one of the country’s most famous roadways.
It’s Shohei Ohtani Season in L.A.
Even before the startling accusations made against Ohtani’s interpreter, the Dodgers star was seemingly at the center of civic life.
How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared
In her memoir of transitioning in her sixties, the writer assesses the cost of suppressing her identity for decades.
Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate
In California’s crowded primary, can a longtime congresswoman sell her progressive ideals to the mainstream?
Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops
The L.A.P.D. says it has the largest local airborne law-enforcement unit in the world. A recent audit found little evidence that its choppers deter crime.
How the AR-15 Became an American Brand
The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.
An Abortion Clinic One Year Later
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, North Dakota’s Red River Women’s Clinic moved two miles away, into Minnesota and a new political reality.
Reimagining Underground Rave Culture
A new book by the media theorist McKenzie Wark may be the most extensive depiction of the renegade party scene that has recently exploded in Brooklyn.
Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.
On the Ground During L.A.’s Wildfire Emergency
With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.
The End of Kamala Harris’s Campaign
At Howard University, a sombre crowd came out to support their candidate and witness history.
The Obamas Campaign for Kamala Harris
In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.
Door-Knocking in Door County
A bellwether county in Wisconsin appears evenly divided in the final stretch.
Kamala Harris Makes Her Case Beyond Big Cities
At campaign stops in southeastern Georgia and New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate tried to win voters in counties outside her party’s strongholds.
The Democratic Party Rebrands Itself Before Viewers’ Eyes
With Kamala Harris preparing to take the spotlight at the D.N.C., Party factions seek to project unity and joy.
A Mood of Optimism at Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Stop
Less than a week after the Republican National Convention took over Milwaukee, Harris spoke at a high-school rally there to a crowd of ebullient Democrats.
The Last Rave
In the summer of 2020, I felt as if I’d entered the wrong portal, out of the world I knew and into its bizarro twin.
Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas
The documentary “Love to the Max” captures one family’s determination to live authentically in an anti-trans political climate.
The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1
How climate change is threatening one of the country’s most famous roadways.
It’s Shohei Ohtani Season in L.A.
Even before the startling accusations made against Ohtani’s interpreter, the Dodgers star was seemingly at the center of civic life.
How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared
In her memoir of transitioning in her sixties, the writer assesses the cost of suppressing her identity for decades.
Barbara Lee’s Antiwar Campaign for the Senate
In California’s crowded primary, can a longtime congresswoman sell her progressive ideals to the mainstream?
Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops
The L.A.P.D. says it has the largest local airborne law-enforcement unit in the world. A recent audit found little evidence that its choppers deter crime.
How the AR-15 Became an American Brand
The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.
An Abortion Clinic One Year Later
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, North Dakota’s Red River Women’s Clinic moved two miles away, into Minnesota and a new political reality.
Reimagining Underground Rave Culture
A new book by the media theorist McKenzie Wark may be the most extensive depiction of the renegade party scene that has recently exploded in Brooklyn.