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David Remnick Never Put Down the Reporter's Notebook
He went to Moscow as a feature writer, came home with a Pulitzer, and took charge of The New Yorker without surrendering the habit that got him there: asking one more question.
Kathryn Schulz Makes a Life’s Work of Looking Twice
She turned error into an intellectual adventure, a fault line into public knowledge, and two small words - lost and found - into a map of a life.
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is the most decorated rapper in Grammy history, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the architect of West Coast hip-hop's cultural dominance. Born in Compton, California on June 17, 1987, he rose from Section 8 housing to headlining the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history (133.5M viewers, Feb 2025). His 2024 Drake beef produced 'Not Like Us' — a diss track that won five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year — and his surprise-dropped GNX album cemented his status as rap's reigning voice. Co-founder of pgLang, fiancé of high school sweetheart Whitney Alford, and father of two, Lamar remains one of music's most private and intellectually rigorous artists.
Wesley Lowery
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and media critic whose decade of reporting on criminal justice, race, and policing in America has made him one of the most consequential voices in modern journalism. Best known for leading the Washington Post's 'Fatal Force' database - the first real-time national tracker of fatal police shootings - Lowery has written two landmark books, built a distinctive independent newsletter, and become an outspoken advocate for objective, truth-centered journalism that refuses false balance. His career spans the Washington Post, CBS News, The Marshall Project, and academia, and his 2016 book 'They Can't Kill Us All' remains essential reading on race, protest, and the limits of American democracy.
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris is the only writer in history to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism twice - once in 2012 at The Boston Globe and again in 2021 at The New York Times, where he serves as Critic at Large. A Yale-educated Philadelphia native, Morris writes about film, music, race, and American identity with a voice that is simultaneously playful and incisive. He co-hosted the NYT podcast Still Processing for six years, launched Cannonball in June 2025, and runs a Substack newsletter. His work stands at the intersection of entertainment and cultural politics, making him one of the most respected voices in American criticism.
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning British-American science journalist best known for his eight years at The Atlantic, where he wrote over 750 stories including landmark COVID-19 coverage that earned him journalism's highest honor in 2021. Author of two acclaimed bestsellers - 'I Contain Multitudes' (2016) and 'An Immense World' (2022) - he translates complex biology and animal sensory science into vivid, empathetic prose that has won him the George Polk Award, Carnegie Medal, Royal Society Science Book Prize, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. Now an independent journalist, he publishes the newsletter 'The Ed's Up' and remains one of the most distinctive voices in science communication.