E. Tammy Kim
E. Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter, former attorney, and contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She has written about labor, politics, arts and culture, and the Koreas for outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the co-author and co-editor of Punk Ethnography, a book about the politics of avant-garde world music.
Can This Tribe of ‘Salmon People’ Pull Off One More Win?
Co-published with The New York Times. The Lummi Nation has a long, proud history of contesting ecologically unfriendly projects. Will it succeed against yet another threat?
Retail Politics
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. A Seattle newspaper models how to cover unhoused people—and puts money in their pockets.
When You Are Paid 13 Hours for a 24-Hour Shift
Co-published with The New York Times. America’s neglect of older people extends to the people who care for them at home.
Moms 4 Housing: Redefining the Right to a Home in Oakland
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. As the housing crisis intensifies across the Bay Area, an activist group of black mothers called Moms 4 …
The Fight Against Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. The Trump administration’s plan to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program, if successful, will separate more than a quarter …
The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation
Co-published with The New Yorker. In 2006, a group of nineteen archivists, librarians, curators, historians, and anthropologists gathered in Arizona to draft a set of best practices for dealing …