Fay Schlesinger

Dear OZY Tribe, For the past decade, I’ve spent most every election night holed up in a newsroom. As a junior hack, I meticulously punched results into a computer until the early hours. In recent years at The Times of London, I helped to helm reporting by dozens of writers as we covered as many breaking stories as possible before deadline, gleaning the reactions of politicians and pointyheads as we went along. This year is different.

For the past decade, I’ve spent most every election night holed up in a newsroom. As a junior hack, I meticulously punched results into a computer until the early hours. In recent years at The Times of London, I helped to helm reporting by dozens of writers as we covered as many breaking stories as possible before deadline, gleaning the reactions of politicians and pointyheads as we went along. This year is different. Today, seeing an election from the other side for the first time in a good while.

Last week, I sent an email to readers announcing the season launch of OZY’s hit podcast series The Thread. This season looks into the history of nonviolent resistance, connecting the dots between Martin Luther King Jr., Leo Tolstoy, William Lloyd Garrison and other leaders who have long been eclipsed. I linked this narrative to Colin Kaepernick, the controversial former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who knelt during the National Anthem and sparked a countrywide dialogue.