Co-published with The New York Times. Decades of tough-on-crime sentencing and increasingly rigid release policies have left many to grow old in a system that was not designed to accommodate them.

Co-published with Grist. Wildfires cause billions in home damage every year. Now, insurers no longer want to take on the risk.

Co-published with Fast Company. 826 Valencia and YR Media teach kids whose voices often go unheard how to create their own powerful stories.

Co-published with Mother Jones. After historic flooding, the California migrant farming community is trying to recover—even if help from FEMA is scarce.

Co-published with Fast Company. Companies like PadSplit offer affordable rooms in shared houses, but they often come with major issues.

Co-published with Dissent Magazine. On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city’s labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.

Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Two residential developments in Marin County have, for different reasons, met with resistance from their communities. What can they tell us about the way out of California’s housing emergency?

Co-published with Grid. Young physicians in training are being squeezed by labor shortages, inflation and long hours.

Co-published with The Nation. A community of migrants and unhoused people call the shuttered downtown of this California city home.

Co-published with Slate. A woman who lived her life homeless in Los Angeles almost got the help she needed. Her story shows everything could be different.

Co-published with The Guardian. The neighborhood is home to 4,400 unhoused people. Its restroom options fall short of the UN standard for refugee camps.

Co-published with Popular Science. Roughly 16 million Americans are living with long COVID, but many are not getting the right medical care. One way to improve the system is by letting patients lead.