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Archive
"We Should Try to Preserve Humanity"
Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment
"We Should Try to Preserve Humanity"
Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment

Appalachian Media Institute

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with Oxford American. The third installment in a series of four posts, featuring films produced in collaboration between the youth filmmakers of the 2016 Summer Documentary Institute at Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute and filmmaker Jordan Freeman.

Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Black Lives Matter, Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop, Kentucky, Documentary Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Ranching Life on the High Plains of Montana
Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment
Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment
Ranching Life on the High Plains of Montana
Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment
Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment

Elliott Woods

PHOTOGRAPHY

Co-published with The Guardian. Elliott D. Woods spent time in Phillips County in northern Montana, where public land is a source of life to which ranchers are intimately connected. If the plan to transfer lands to the states succeeds, it will mean a radical restructuring of the economy and the culture of the West.

Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment
Photography Montana, Land Transfer, Heartland & South, Ranching, Agriculture, Farming, Branding, Cattle Ranch Elliott Woods Comment
In Montana, Land Transfer Threatens the American Rancher's Way of Life
Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment
Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment
In Montana, Land Transfer Threatens the American Rancher's Way of Life
Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment
Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment

Elliott Woods

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. Ranchers in the west have been struggling for decades. Now a new threat looms: public land might be taken away from them

Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment
Features Heartland & South, Montana, Ranchers, American Rancher, Agriculture, Ranching Elliott Woods Comment
"You Will Come Here, and There Will Be Magical Things Happening"
Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment
"You Will Come Here, and There Will Be Magical Things Happening"
Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment

Appalachian Media Institute

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with Oxford American. The films and filmmakers of the Summer Documentary Institute at Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute.

Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Heartland & South, Appalachian Media Institute, Appa, Kentucky Appalachian Media Institute Comment
"I Couldn't Make My Films Anywhere Else"
Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment
"I Couldn't Make My Films Anywhere Else"
Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment

Appalachian Media Institute

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with Oxford American. The films and filmmakers of the Summer Documentary Institute at Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute.

Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment
Multimedia Appalachia, Appalshop, Appalachian Media Institute, transgender, Whitesburg, eastern Kentucky, Heartland & South Appalachian Media Institute Comment
The Health of a Hospital
Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment
Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment
The Health of a Hospital
Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment
Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment

David Ramsey

ANALYSIS

Co-published with Arkansas Times. The Medicaid expansion helped Baxter County Regional Medical Center survive and thrive, but a federal repeal bill threatens to imperil it and its patients.

Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment
Analysis Arkansas, ANNN, ACA, Medicaid, Healthcare, Heartland & South David Ramsey Comment

Featured Stories

 
 

Featured Stories

Sunset Park: So Hot Right Now
Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment
Sunset Park: So Hot Right Now
Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment

WNYC Studios

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with WNYC Studios. It's a neighborhood that's developing fast — and how affordable it will be for residents and businesses is at stake. Here are four ways Sunset Park is changing.

Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia The Affordability Project, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Gentrification, Bill de Blasio, Industry City, cities WNYC Studios Comment
Death Trips: Accessorizing the Final Exit Lane
Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment
Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment
Death Trips: Accessorizing the Final Exit Lane
Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment
Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment

Ann Neumann

CULTURE

Co-published with The Baffler. Awkward, Americanized, consumer-focused forms of Buddhism have long since taken over our exercise (yoga), our offices (mindfulness), and our homes (feng shui). Now, with doula programs popping up like mantras in the mind, they’ve come for our deaths.

Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment
Culture The Baffler, death, dying, loneliness, medicine, Culture Ann Neumann Comment
Faking 'Wokeness': How Advertising Targets Millennial Liberals for Profit
Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment
Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment
Faking 'Wokeness': How Advertising Targets Millennial Liberals for Profit
Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment
Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment

Alissa Quart

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. Banking on a coveted demographic that is increasingly in the bluest cities, brands are ‘trying to make their toilet paper save the world’.

Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment
Features Advertising, The Guardian, Outclassed, Faux Woke, Woke, Kendall Jenner, Brand Culture, Millennials Alissa Quart Comment
Air Rage: Why Does Flying Make Us so Angry? Science Says it's About Class
Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment
Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment
Air Rage: Why Does Flying Make Us so Angry? Science Says it's About Class
Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment
Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment

Maia Szalavitz

FEATURES

Co-published with The Guardian. Rise in acts of plane-related violence shed light on something bigger: modern air travel is a perfect example of a situation in which human status is highly visible. 

Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment
Features Flight, Air Rage, Maia Szalavitz, The Guardian, Outclassed, Whitehall study, airlines, middle class, class divide Maia Szalavitz Comment
Deported to El Salvador, Trapped between Gangs and Trump
Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment
Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment
Deported to El Salvador, Trapped between Gangs and Trump
Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment
Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment

Leighton Woodhouse & Pedro Armando Aparicio

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with The Intercept. After 17 years in Houston, Escobar became one of more than 40,000 people arrested for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement between January and May under President Trump’s “bad hombres” pledge.

Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment
Multimedia Deportation, The Intercept, El Salvador, Houston, Deportees, Bad Hombres, Immigrants Leighton Woodhouse Comment
New York’s Housecleaners Become Collateral Damage in Airbnb Crackdown
News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment
News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment
New York’s Housecleaners Become Collateral Damage in Airbnb Crackdown
News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment
News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment

Abby Ellin

NEWS | ANALYSIS

Co-published with Fortune. As New York City limits Airbnb rentals, the cottage industries that serviced them has been hit particularly hard.

News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment
News, Analysis NYC, Fortune, Workers, Google, Inside Airbnb, Airbnb, Abby Ellin, Cityami, Cooperative Cleaning Abby Ellin 1 Comment
The Street Where Eric Garner Died Struggles to Recover
Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment
The Street Where Eric Garner Died Struggles to Recover
Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment

WNYC Studios

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with WNYC Studios. Shop owners claim a rise in crime after Garner’s death is hurting their businesses and the community.

 

Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment
Multimedia Eric Garner, I Can't Breathe, Black Lives Matter, The Affordability Project, WNYC, North Shore, Staten Island, Police Brutality, Cities WNYC Studios Comment
Behind Bars, Beyond Means: the Crushing Expense of Loving Someone in Prison
Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment
Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment
Behind Bars, Beyond Means: the Crushing Expense of Loving Someone in Prison
Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment
Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment

Lisa Riordan Seville & Zara Katz

PHOTOGRAPHY | ANALYSIS

Co-published with The Guardian. When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in prison, Kristal saw an opportunity to connect Philadelphia families to loved ones locked up hours away – and Bridging the Gap was born

Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment
Photography Incarceration, Everyday Incarceration, Zara Katz, Lisa Riordan Seville, Philadelphia, Women on the Outside, The Guardian, Greene State Prison, Prison, Criminal Justice Lisa Riordan Seville Comment
The Gangs of L.A.
Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment
Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment
The Gangs of L.A.
Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment
Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment

Joseph Rodriguez

PHOTOGRAPHY

Co-published with The New York Times. Whatever happened to the "gangbanger"?

Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment
Photography Gentrification, Cities, East LA, Los Angeles, California, Latinx Culture, Gang Culture, Poverty, Community Joseph Rodriguez 1 Comment
Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions
Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment
Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment
Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions
Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment
Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment

Jennifer Dworkin

MULTIMEDIA

Co-published with Bill Moyers & Company. For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.

Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment
Multimedia California, Santa Barbara, Homeless Families, Safe Parking, Los Angeles, Housing, Rental Market, Homelessness Jennifer Dworkin Comment
American Ballad: A Photographic Chronicle of America's Working Poor
Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge
Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge
American Ballad: A Photographic Chronicle of America's Working Poor
Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge
Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge & Matt Black

PHOTOGRAPHY | ANALYSIS

Co-published with Smithsonian Magazine. To mark the 75th anniversary of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Matt Black and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge, traveled to California's Central Valley, Cleveland and northern Maine to chronicle America's working poor.

Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge
Articles Rural Life, Working poor, Inequality Dale Maharidge
Teachers Are Working for Uber Just to Keep a Foothold in the Middle Class
Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment
Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment
Teachers Are Working for Uber Just to Keep a Foothold in the Middle Class
Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment
Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment

Alissa Quart

NEWS | FEATURE

Co-published with The Nation. For the ride-share company, teacher/drivers are both a marketing coup and an exploitable labor force.

Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment
Articles, Features, News Workers, Uber, Tipped Workers, Drivers, Teachers, Schools Alissa Quart Comment