Emily Witt has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2018. She has covered breaking news and politics from around the country, and has written about culture, sexuality, drugs, and night life. She is the author of the books “Future Sex” and “Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.” Her journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in n+1, the Times, GQ, Harper’s, and the London Review of Books, and have been anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing 2011,” “Say What You Mean: the n+1 Anthology,” and “Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir from the London Review of Books.” She has reported from many countries and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique.
Sunrise, founded a year and a half ago by a dozen or so twentysomethings, has established itself as the dominant influence on the environmental policy of the Democratic Party’s young, progressive wing.
For the final month of the campaign, the Senate candidate’s field organization has channelled its get-out-the-vote efforts into more than seven hundred pop-up campaign offices.
“We actually can’t believe that we have to fight this hard,” one protester said, as it became clear toward the end of this week that the battle to thwart Kavanaugh’s confirmation would fall short.
It had seemed, at the start of the morning, that the protesters were there to express their endurance. But by midmorning the day had veered in another direction.
