Why Did a Man Starve to Death in an Arkansas Jail?
Co-published with Truthdig. It was a failure of the system because he shouldn't have even been there.
Working in Their Sleep
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Meatpacking workers in Arkansas, grieving loved ones lost to Covid and struggling to pay medical bills, are organizing for justice from their employer.
Arkansas Poultry Workers Amid the Coronavirus: ‘We’re Not Essential, We’re Expendable’
Co-published with the Arkansas Times and the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network. Poultry workers in Arkansas describe appalling and unsanitary working conditions at processing plants amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Health Workers Care for Us—Are We Caring for Them?
Co-published with The Nation. Photos of the nurses and assistants who tended to my dad in his final days.
These Women Were Sentenced as Children to Die in Prison
Co-published with The Nation. The number of women serving life sentences is growing more quickly than that of men. Read the stories of women who were sentenced to life in prison without parole when they were teenagers.
The Health of a Hospital
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.