Susie Cagle
Co-published with Vox. Afterpay is the latest company to target young shoppers looking for a deal.
Buying a New Purse? This Startup Wants to Help You Pay For It — But Could Also Get You Into Debt.
Episode 11: Kirsten Gillibrand's Path to Power
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. What does Kirsten Gillibrand's rise tell us about the relationship between gender and power in American politics?
Episode 10: ¡Sí Se Puede!
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Before “Yes we can!”, there was “¡Sí se puede!”
Episode 9: What Does the Right Kind of Woman Sound Like?
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Shrill, strident, bossy. These are the misogynistic slurs women often face when they run for elected office. So what should power sound like?
Episode 8: The Right Kind of Woman
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Women running for office are often forced to play by different rules. We look at two candidates: Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Mikie Sherrill in suburban New Jersey.
Episode 7: The Women of Texas's Secret Resistance
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. In this episode, we bring you the story of a group of progressive, Texan women who are organizing — in secret — out of fear of retaliation from their neighbors.
Episode 6: Ida B. Wells
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Ida B. Wells is in some ways a forgotten figure, but her reporting on lynchings across the South was unwavering in its mission: calling America out on racial injustice.
Episode 5: The Original Nasty Woman
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. What if we filled all 435 seats in the House with women? Would it make a difference?
Episode 4: The 'Indoor Man' and His Playmates
Episode 3: The Pedestal
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Meet the woman who vowed to shut down women’s suffrage forever.
Episode 2: We've Been Here Before
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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
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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. ."
Can a New Kind of Payday Lender Help the Poor?
Susie Cagle
Co-published with The Nation. Oakland’s Community Check Cashing offers an unusual alternative for the underbanked.
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
Words by Erynn Brook | Illustrations by Emily Flake
Co-published with Longreads. It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
Life in Transition on Staten Island
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Staten Island’s struggle with LGBTQ inclusion endangers the lives of transgender residents.
Episode 9: 'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. In many counties, pre-trial juvenile offenders are still put in solitary. In this episode, WNYC teams up with The Marshall Project to investigate how widespread the practice remains.
Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Policy experts even use the term "sexual abuse to prison pipeline," and they say it’s why incarcerating a young girl perpetuates more negative behavior and makes it harder to exit the system.
Episode 7: 'It’s the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done'
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Desperate parents with means can turn to a whole network of private programs before their kids even get caught. For a young person named James, this type of intervention in his teenage years was life-changing.
Episode 6: 'Please Lock Up My Kid'
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Status offenses are designed to keep at risk youth safe, but in practice, they can also become a pipeline into the juvenile justice system for kids who might otherwise not end up there.
Episode 5: 'The Teenage Brain Is Like a Sports Car'
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Co-published with WNYC Studios. Stephen is one of thousands of so-called "juvenile lifers" who have an unexpected shot at freedom today. Up until 2005, most juveniles could be sentenced just as harshly as adults: that meant life without parole, even the death penalty.