I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?
Co-published with The Los Angeles Times. What had I been thinking when I invited a young homeless couple — and their pet rabbit — into my house?
Why I Chose to Live House-Free in Alaska
Co-published with The Guardian. Homeless implies a moral failure while being houseless – lacking a permanent three-dimensional structure – is less stress on the planet and on my brain.
From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Co-published with In These Times. This wasn’t the life I had envisioned for myself: part blue-collar worker, part professional, unable to fit in fully in either realm. I wonder if a piecemeal living of part-time work,
Evictionland
Co-published with Curbed. More and more Americans experience eviction, and gentrification is partly to blame
Off Our Butts: How Smoking Bans Extinguish Solidarity
Co-published with The Baffler. Anti-smoking legislation is, and always has been, about social control.
The Twisted Plasma Business
Co-published with The Atlantic. Darryl Lorenzo Wellington reports on the multi-billion dollar plasma donation industry, including his own experience “plassing” for cash.