Joanna Pearlstein

Staff Editor, Opinion New York, NY

Come work with me! I’m hiring an editor to help make the print version of NY Times Opinion. The job's based in NY (I’m in SF) and requires solid editing chops and news judgment, comfort with deadlines and top-notch headline-writing skills.

More here:
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This was, like, totally awesome, Adam.

Opinion | I Quit the Patriarchy and Rescued My Marriage

So so fun to help get this great piece by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck out into the world (online now and in your newspaper tomorrow). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

The Evidence For the Childhood Vaccine Schedule, Explained Here’s why doctors recommend getting specific shots at specific times — as well as what happens when parents stray from that advice.

Here’s why doctors recommend getting specific shots at specific times — as well as what happens when parents stray from that advice.

Opinion | The Point: Conversations and insights about the moment.

Watching my hometown burn from San Francisco, I wrote about maps and the borders of natural disasters for the Times Opinion blog:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Opinion | If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us? A bereaved mother’s case against our grief-phobic culture.

“If we had been asked to really consider that Orli’s time on earth was limited, how would we have used that time?” Please read my brilliant colleague Sarah Wildman’s gorgeous, searing essay about what we owe dying children.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...

I'm so sorry to hear this. I had the pleasure of working with Steve at Wired many times, and he was a delight. May his memory be for a blessing.

After being sent for gender testing without her knowledge, South African runner Caster Semenya was told she'd need surgery to continue competing as a woman. Read her story in NY Times Opinion and in Sunday's newspaper: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/o...

I was a big fan of Wendy MacNaughton long before I had the privilege of collaborating with her for New York Times Opinion. It was an absolute delight to work with her on this. I hope you’ll check it out (print version is especially delightful) and go try it. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/o...