Like Bruce Willis, I Have Aphasia. Here’s What Life Is Like With This Incurable Disorder.
Published in HuffPost. It has gotten to the point where I often just avoid interactions requiring me to speak.
This Nursing Home Chain Stood Out for Nationally High Death Rates as Pandemic Peaked
Co-published with USA Today. A first-ever USA TODAY analysis of nursing home ownership shows how Trilogy, a real estate-trust backed chain, fared during the worst of the pandemic.
Finding The Connection Between Trauma And Chronic Homelessness
Co-published with Defector. Greg Turner instinctively answers my question about when his homelessness started, with the earliest memory that he can claim about his life.
How Do You Get Dental Care When You Can’t Afford It?
Co-published with The New Yorker. At an annual dental fair in Philadelphia, Americans wait in line and hope to get through the door.
The Trouble with Experts
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. The Web allows us to question authority in new ways.
An HIV-Prevention Drug Is Widely Available. Yet At-Risk Women Are Getting Left Behind.
Co-published with National Geographic. In the U.S., women account for a fifth of new infections. But a persistent lack of education means few even know about the highly …
37,000 U.S. Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them.
Co-published with Newsweek. So many veterans who leave the tangle of war end up on America's streets, still fighting daily for their survival.
John Koopman: Stars and Stripes and Strip Clubs
Co-published with The Nation. How a war correspondent found himself bouncing rowdy customers at a strip club—and what came next.
A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story
Co-published with The Nation. How did Ray Suarez end up jobless and worrying about how he was going to pay his dental bills?
Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body, But It Has Abandoned My Brain
Co-published with the Chicago Reader. I want choice, not a fistful of unhelpful options from the cruel system we make poor people navigate to access health care.
My Family Has Been Doctors in the Black Community for Generations. What If They’re the Last?
Co-published with Newsweek. Practices like my family's face a dire prognosis.
‘We Don’t Deserve This’: New App Places US Caregivers Under Digital Surveillance
Co-published with The Guardian. Electronic visit verification systems make homecare more difficult, trap people with disabilities, and cost more than paper timesheets.