Co-published with Teen Vogue. For funeral directors, gravediggers, and crime-scene cleaners, death is life’s work.

Co-published with High Country News. Long COVID affects more than 16 million Americans, and firefighters are at increased risk of getting it.

Co-published with Slate. There was a time when hospitality industry unions were some of the most powerful and robust labor organizations in the country.

Co-published with Teen Vogue. In this op-ed, two young fired Starbucks workers talk about fighting to get their jobs back and for the right to organize.

Co-published with The Nation. In Gallup, New Mexico, doctors and community members are rallying to save Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital.

Co-published with Jacobin. The supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.

Co-published with The Nation. Counties aren’t supposed to use Covid funds to build jails and prisons—but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to do it …

Co-published with The New Republic. Around the nation, eviction filings are climbing. In numerous cities, cases now exceed 100 percent of the historical average.

Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. A tax break for Utah seniors could be a lifeline—if only people knew about it.

Co-published with The Nation. Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, but it’s not a turning point for labor power.

Co-published with The Washington Post. It’s usually not a glitch when qualified applicants have a hard time accessing aid they need. That’s how the system was designed.

Published in The Washington Post. I realized long ago that there are two separate and very different health-care systems in this country.