Type Media Center Welcomes Matt Aikins as a Puffin Foundation Fellow Type Media Center welcomes Matthieu Aikins as a Puffin Foundation Fellow! Aikins is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008.
Desmond Meade and Ibram X. Kendi awarded 2021 MacArthur Fellowship Bold Type Books author Ibram X. Kendi and our 2020 recepient of the Puffin Prize, Desmond Meade were both awarded the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship.
What Should Democrats Do Now That Police Reform Talks Have Broken Down? Bold Type Books author Keith Boykin joins CNN’s Newsroom to discuss what steps to take now that Republican Senator Tim Scott has rejected Democrats’ final offer on police reform.
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Cost of Inequality in America Puffin Foundation Fellow Eyal Press talks to NPR affiliate KPCW about how his new book, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, takes a deep dive into the lives of those who do the essential work that no one else wants to do.
Police Are Giving Amazon Ring Cameras to Survivors of Domestic Violence. Is It Helping? Advocates for survivors say the approach could end up doing more harm than good. A year long investigation by 2020-21 Ida B. Wells Fellow Eileen Guo in partnership with Consumer Reports and MIT Technology Review.
How Joe Biden’s Green Agenda Threatens the Alaskan Wilderness The Biden administration promised to engage with tribes on development projects that would affect their way of life. But Native villages suing the government say that’s not happening. By Adam Federman for Politico Magazine.
Are You That Somebody? In Aaliyah, Mychal Denzel Smith found the freedom and fluidity that he desired. By Mychal Denzel Smith for Harpers Bazaar.
Lawful Carnage Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism. By Rozina Ali for The American Prospect.
New Release from Bold Type Books: Race Against Time Click here to read more about our book imprint’s latest release, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America by best-selling author Keith Boykin a CNN political commentator and former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.