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Joanna Pearlstein
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San FranciscoJoined May 2008

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Please don't miss 's gorgeous op-art online and, soon, in a newspaper near you.
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Feels good to be back in the @nytimes doing the hard-hitting journalism. Full page in print tomorrow. Thanks crackerjack team at @nytopinion. Hope everyone has some "fun" this weekend. nytimes.com/2022/09/02/opi
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Your sweat is actually doing you a favor. Don’t miss this great piece by in today’s print newspaper or right here on the internet:
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Perspiration may be embarrassing, but it can also give you that natural, dewy look that’s so popular right now, writes graphic journalist @MonaChalabi. “You could spend $2,545 on a tub of Crème de la Mer moisturizer, or you could just let your face sweat.” nyti.ms/3e15fz2
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This is a terrific piece of journalism that every San Francisco resident — or anyone looking to understand the fentanyl crisis — should watch.
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TODAY a story publishes that me, @stephenlamphoto, and a team of 20 other ppl at the Chronicle spent a year on. It's an immersive look at San Francisco’s fentanyl epidemic, a disaster in plain sight that has claimed more than 1,300 lives since 2020. sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/
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Grateful that has provided answers to my questions.
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Mistletoe has been turned into menorahs. Christmas tree trucks are piled with dreidels. And "fa la la llamakkahs" are a thing now? I wrote about why Jewish shoppers on TikTok are asking big-box retailers to dig a little deeper into the Hanukkah spirit nyti.ms/3d78kKx
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The inimitable wrote a combined pregnancy announcement and a scathing entreaty to pass a comprehensive paid leave package that underscores just how much is at stake for American parents (and humans). Very glad I had a chance to work on this -
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Consider this my pregnancy announcement. nytimes.com/2021/11/14/opi
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After her abusive relationship with another woman ended, @carmenmmachado wrote an honest, innovative memoir about her experience. Now parents in Texas say they don’t want their teenagers to read her book in class. Don't miss Machado's essay in .
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Join and today at 11:30am ET to discuss how to think about risks for unvaccinated children on Instagram Live (Usernames NYTOpinion and NYTParenting).
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For more than a year, many Americans have reordered their lives because of the extreme danger of Covid. And Covid continues to dominate our thinking. Whether it should dominate our children’s lives is a different question. nytimes.com/2021/04/22/opi
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Five years ago Joe Biden said he would cut funding to scientists who didn't report the results of their federally funded experiments to the government, as the law requires. As reports, the problem remains — and the law is still not being enforced.
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One of Dr. Perry Cook’s sickle cell anemia patients tested positive for coronavirus and waited 27 hours in an ER to get the monoclonal antibody therapy he recommended. In , he explains why it’s so hard for patients to get the medicine they need.
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Some nations are developing vaccine passports that, they hope, will enable a return to quasi-normalcy. But absent global consensus on immunization standards, these passes won't end the pandemic, write and in .
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Several new state bills challenging Apple and Google’s control of the app store universe “represent an opportunity for state leaders to put fairness in commerce at the center of governance,” and argue in .
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Very grateful to have had the chance to work on this amazing, awe-inspiring project last year. Thank you @Artis_Curiskis for teaching me so much.
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Our daily update is published. States reported 1.2 million tests, 41k cases, 40,212 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and 839 deaths. This is our final day of data collection after a very long year.
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4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over time. Today, states reported 1.2M tests, 41k cases, 40,212 currently hospitalized, and 839 deaths.
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This piece is amazing. Highly recommend.
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A stunning work of journalism by @katieengelhart, who spent hours interviewing people with dementia, their families and their carers and carefully, humanely tells their stories, and shows how America so often fails them. nytimes.com/2021/02/19/opi