Jill Lepore

published in The New Yorker
Lepore investigates African American burial suites around the country - many being forgotten to history as highways and parking lots were built on top them. It's near impossible to find the descendants buried in many, as the atrocities of slavery mean there is no written or clear history, so who can speaking up and defender them?
933 days ago

published in The New Yorker
Today, burnout is associated with the modern professional worker, having dedicated too much of their life to their job that they can not keep it going. But it wasn't always that way; in the 70s and 80s burnouts were often those with no life prospects and addicted to drugs or alcohol. Lepore looks at this cultural shift, as well as the present moment coming out of the pandemic, and questions if we are really unique in feeling burned out or if it has been a constant throughout human history.
1064 days ago

published in The New Yorker
Zero-days are software or hardware flaws "for which there is no existing patch." It this article, Lepore reviews the book "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends," which investigates the rise of the internet and the cyber security issues that it raises.
1168 days ago