Featured Stories

Dollar General Throws a Lifeline to Hard-Pressed Communities. Not All Welcome It.
Dollar General Throws a Lifeline to Hard-Pressed Communities. Not All Welcome It.

Tom Zoellner

FEATURES

Co-published with The LA Times. The dollar store has thrown a lifeline of food and capital to impoverished pockets, but how much quality is in that lifeline?

Building Immigrant Communities in the Trump Era
Building Immigrant Communities in the Trump Era

Kavitha Rajagopalan

ANALYSIS

Co-published with The Nation. Immigrant networks ought to be supported and funded, not dismantled and driven into hiding.

MeToo's Hidden Activists? Working-Class Women
MeToo's Hidden Activists? Working-Class Women

Alissa Quart

CULTURE

Co-published with The Guardian. Janitors and fast-food workers, not celebrities, are ground zero of the MeToo movement. Time to shift the focus to them.

Back From The Storm
Back From The Storm

Ed Morales & Joseph Rodriguez

FEATURES

Co-published with The New York Times. A year later, traumatized Puerto Ricans are still reeling from the fallout of Hurricane Maria’s destruction.

Episode 2: We've Been Here Before
Episode 2: We've Been Here Before

WNYC Studios

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with WNYC Studios. Barbara Mikulski and three female senators elected in 1992 look back at the start of the modern era of women in politics.

Episode 1: The Dream Was Not Mine
Episode 1: The Dream Was Not Mine

WNYC Studios

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with WNYC Studios. Jennifer Willoughby and Saily Avelenda each woke up one day wanting to make a change. They ended up toppling two political giants. ."

High-Country Colorado Towns Wrangle Big-City Problems with Homelessness
High-Country Colorado Towns Wrangle Big-City Problems with Homelessness

Nancy Lofolm & Scott DW Smith

PHOTOGRAPHY

Co-published with The Colorado Sun. “No camping” signs have popped up in Durango's parks and greenways. Homeless residents have had to scatter and hide, the victims of a crisis of homelessness in the tourist town.

Making Tampons Free Can Make Them Safer, Too
Making Tampons Free Can Make Them Safer, Too

Laura Strausfeld

ANALYSIS

Co-published with Bloomberg. As government entities like prisons and schools become big buyers, they should demand better testing and disclosure for consumers.

In California, a Thirst for Change
In California, a Thirst for Change

Donnell Alexander

FEATURES

Co-published with KCRW. An estimated one million Californians — mostly rural and poor — are exposed to contaminated water each year.

Why I Came Out as Being Poor
Why I Came Out as Being Poor

Stephanie Land

ESSAYS

Co-published with The Guardian. Publicly admitting my struggle perpetuated the feeling that I was undeserving of most things – but anyone could find themselves in a similar situation.

Why Is Bank of America Asking Clients About Their Citizenship?
Why Is Bank of America Asking Clients About Their Citizenship?

Susie Cagle

FEATURES

Co-published with The Nation. Lenders discriminate against immigrants—and often, it’s perfectly legal.

How Economic Anxiety Could Help Reshape America for the Better
How Economic Anxiety Could Help Reshape America for the Better

Alissa Quart

CULTURE

Co-published with The Guardian. Today’s economic uncertainty can motivate people to change their allegiances and sensibilities.

On The Ground

Archive
Passive, Poor and White? What People Keep Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Passive, Poor and White? What People Keep Getting Wrong About Appalachia

Elizabeth Catte

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. To satisfy an elitist, narrative fetish about ‘Trump Country’, photographers from outside have long ignored my region’s diversity

I Wrote About Farmers' Suicides – And the Reaction Has Been Overwhelming
I Wrote About Farmers' Suicides – And the Reaction Has Been Overwhelming

Debbie Weingarten

NEWS

Co-published with The Guardian. After the Guardian and EHRP published a piece about the record number of farmers who are killing themselves, there were hundreds of responses.

My Small Town is Being Poisoned by Fracking Waste
My Small Town is Being Poisoned by Fracking Waste

Alison Stine

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. In a tiny south-eastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills, the Hazel Ginsburg Well is holding waste from out-of-state fracking operations – a sludge of toxic chemicals and undrinkable water.

America's Local Newspapers Might be Broke - But They're More Vital than Ever
America's Local Newspapers Might be Broke - But They're More Vital than Ever

Kathleen McLaughlin

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. Local journalism is doing great work across the country while fighting cutbacks and tight budgets. But we need people to stop expecting news to be free.

The Socialist Experiment
The Socialist Experiment

Katie GIlbert

FEATURES

Co-published with Oxford American, republished in The Clarion-Ledger. A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi

Oklahoma Isn't working. Can Anyone Fix this Failing American State?
Oklahoma Isn't working. Can Anyone Fix this Failing American State?

Russell Cobb

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. Poverty, police abuse, record prison rates and education cuts that mean a four-day school week. Why are public services failing Oklahomans?