William Finnegan

William Finnegan appears in the following:

Challenges Ahead for the Man in Charge of the MTA

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Crumbling infrastructure is one thing; low morale and obstructive political feuds are another. After six months on the job, which has been harder for NYCT chief Andy Byford to manage?

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Broken Dreams

Monday, September 11, 2017

Is ending DACA the worst decision Trump has made?

Fifty Years of Chasing the Waves

Friday, November 13, 2015

When William Finnegan, a staff writer, isn’t covering conflicts in Mexico, Sudan, and Somalia, he's chasing waves. He recently gave David Remnick his first and only surfing lesson.

Jorge Ramos, On and Off the Television

Friday, October 30, 2015

New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan speaks with Univision's Jorge Ramos about the Republican party's stance on immigration and the peculiar act of arguing about it on television.

Drifting With Purpose: A Life of Surfing and Reporting

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

William Finnegan has spent his life riding ocean waves through a conflict-ridden world he travels as a reporter.

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Surfing, Gangs, and LSD: The Upbringing of a New Yorker Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

New Yorker staff writer William Finnegan discusses his memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. 

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Mining for Gold in the Clouds

Thursday, April 16, 2015

La Rinconada is seventeen thousand feet above sea level—the highest-elevation human settlement in the world. Its gold mines are small, numerous, unregulated, and grossly unsafe.

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Fast-food Workers and a New Kind of Labor Activism

Monday, September 15, 2014

William Finnegan, staff writer at The New Yorker, looks at the push for unionization of fast food workers and their demonstrations for higher minimum wage.

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The War Back Home

Monday, May 24, 2010

William Finnegan and Sergeant Troy Haley talk about the strains that deployment puts on marriages and families.

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