Co-published with Believer Magazine. If you’re considering van-dwelling in the city, here are some of the rules I adopted over the years to make it work.

Co-published with The Intercept. People who live near the dying lake are caught in a perfect storm of environmental neglect, poverty, and Covid-19.

Co-published with TalkPoverty. Payment deferment agreements shouldn't apply during the eviction moratorium. Landlords are trying to use them anyway.

Co-published with The Appeal. Public safety is not improved by stricter probation and parole rules, researchers have found.

Co-published with High Country News. In Mountain View, California, an RV-dwelling family waits out COVID-19 in a city-sanctioned ‘safe lot.’

Co-published with You Had Me At Black. Myeshia is a married, 34-year-old cis Black queer woman with a PhD. Two weeks after giving birth to her …

Co-published with The Nation. Photos from the grassroots food distribution networks that are keeping Los Angeles’s undocumented communities afloat.

Co-published with The New York Review of Books. As the housing crisis intensifies across the Bay Area, an activist group of black mothers called Moms 4 …

Co-published with The Guardian. Working for the county probation department, the largest in the nation, means being equal parts social worker and law enforcement.

Co-published with California Sunday. South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and …

Co-published with GEN. After a fire destroyed the only place I could afford to live, I knew it was time to leave for good.

Co-published with Mother Jones. We ignore the rise of this extreme political affect at our own peril.