Associate Editor @thenation. Editing The Weekend Read. Writing all over.
Joined December 2012
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i hope elon doesn't let the money change him
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We're hiring here @thenation! Please apply and let me know if you have any questions:
thenation.com/jobs/
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Alana Pockros retweeted
Wrote about THE DRAMA, Sandy Hook, and my feelings about on-screen violence and cinematic red lines for @thenation. thenation.com/article/archiv…
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Alana Pockros retweeted
Jun 4
.@noturtlesoup17 on @democracynow this morning talking about her Weekend Essay:
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Alana Pockros retweeted
May 30
"All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."
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May 30
Dispatch on chasing ICE for The Weekend Read. Fun and disturbing!!
May 30
"All the agents who had been to Minnesota told me they never wanted to go back, for any reason."
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Alana Pockros retweeted
May 30
“I bet that picture looks cool as hell,” the ICE agent said to a photographer shot with pepper balls numerous times that day as he tried to take photos. “Can you tag me on Instagram?” An essay on chasing ICE by @noturtlesoup17:
bit.ly/4dC6SQk
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May 11
I wrote about the kooky writer Elaine Kraf and her posthoumosly published novel MEMORY HOUSE. You can read it in print in the @Gagosian Mag, or online here: gagosian.com/quarterly/issue…
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Web link here! gagosian.com/quarterly/2026/…
May 11
I wrote about the kooky writer Elaine Kraf and her posthoumosly published novel MEMORY HOUSE. You can read it in print in the @Gagosian Mag, or online here: gagosian.com/quarterly/issue…
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May 27
Last weekend's Weekend Read the discussion point for @halemur's newsletter today:
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Alana Pockros retweeted
May 24
My amazing student @grace__iphone wrote this in my class and published it in The Nation. Very proud 🥲
May 23
I think the leftist, feminist critiques of GLP-1s are all correct, but I took the drug anyway.
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May 23
An interesting essay about what happens when your emotions and your politics come up against one another.
May 23
I think the leftist, feminist critiques of GLP-1s are all correct, but I took the drug anyway.
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May 16
An amazing piece!!
May 16
I've got the weekend essay in @thenation, on the boys lost to soldierdom.
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Alana Pockros retweeted
May 13
devil announces residency in hell :)
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Alana Pockros retweeted
May 14
Palestinians have been offering "extensive testimony as to the nature of sexual assault perpetrated by the Israeli military" far before Kristof said it was happening...
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i went to the border security expo and all i got was this creeping sense of dread
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