COVID Cleaned Out North Carolina’s College Campuses. That Has Electoral Consequences.
Co-published with The Week and Yahoo News. In August, North Carolina's colleges were cleaned out after a surge of COVID-19 cases, creating a diaspora of young …
Professor Precarious: Adjuncts in the Time of COVID
Co-published with Believer Magazine. Adjunct professors, most with no health benefits or job security, fear a new level of vulnerability during the pandemic.
Stop Pretending Schools Can Open Safely
Co-published with the Washington Post. Making teachers get sick can’t be an option.
How We Can Truly Repay Our Frontline Health Workers: Clear Their Debts
Co-published with The Guardian. Many of the workers risking their lives amid the pandemic are burdened with student debt. We owe them more than just applause.
What Billionaires Don’t Understand About College Debt
Co-published with The New York Times. Forget big donations. Go for structural reforms.
I’m Drowning In $120K Of Student Debt And I’m Suing Betsy DeVos To Make Her Fix That
Co-published with HuffPost. I will force America's billionaire education secretary to finally follow the law.
A Bigger Scandal at Colleges — Underpaid Professors
Co-published with The Boston Globe. Why are we not distraught by the ordinary scandal of adjunct mania at universities?
Some Essential Reading for Ethically Compromised Parents
Co-published with The Los Angeles Times. The parents embroiled in the college admissions scandal could learn a thing or two from these selected readings on inequality …
Class Dismissed
Co-published with Longreads. When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
Professors are Selling their Plasma to Pay Bills. Let’s Hold Colleges’ Feet to the Fire
Co-published with The Guardian. If you like your coffee fair trade, why not your children’s school ‘fair labor’? Here’s a simple but effective proposal.
Do You Have Student Debt? There’s a Reality TV Show For That
Co-published with The Guardian. Paid Off, a gameshow that pays off increments of contestants’ student loans for each correct answer, joins a growing ecology of films …
Oklahoma Isn’t Working. Can Anyone Fix this Failing American State?
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?