Co-published with the Washington Post. I hope that I am among the last who will languish for years with swollen gums and big dreams.

Co-published with Allure. Getting your talons done should be soothing, but for me, it also comes with a bolt of initial dread.

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 the Washington Post. Making teachers get sick can’t be an option.

Co-published with Believer Magazine. Adjunct professors, most with no health benefits or job security, fear a new level of vulnerability during the pandemic.

Co-published with Texas Observer. Remote health care has the potential to connect patients to doctors safely during shelter-in-place. So why do so many Texans remain disconnected?

Co-published with The Crisis. For the one in five Black people who were already living with mental health issues, the COVID-19 crisis has upended the normalcy that …

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.

Co-published with The New York Times. America’s neglect of older people extends to the people who care for them at home.

Co-published with The American Prospect. The October 2019 event, held in Wuhan, China, appears to have been a vector for spreading disease in the U.S. and around …

Co-published with The New York Review of Books. An intimate look at how Minneapolis is rebuilding — and reforming — itself after the police killing of …

Co-published with The New Republic. The vast, hidden inequities of the civil legal system.