Passive, Poor and White? What People Keep Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Co-published with The Guardian. To satisfy an elitist, narrative fetish about ‘Trump Country’, photographers from outside have long ignored my region’s diversity
I Wrote About Farmers’ Suicides – And the Reaction Has Been Overwhelming
Co-published with The Guardian. After the Guardian and EHRP published a piece about the record number of farmers who are killing themselves, there were hundreds of …
My Small Town is Being Poisoned by Fracking Waste
Co-published with The Guardian. In a tiny south-eastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills, the Hazel Ginsburg Well is holding waste from out-of-state fracking operations – a …
America’s Local Newspapers Might be Broke – But They’re More Vital than Ever
Co-published with The Guardian. Local journalism is doing great work across the country while fighting cutbacks and tight budgets. But we need people to stop expecting news …
The Socialist Experiment
Co-published with Oxford American, republished in The Clarion-Ledger. A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi
Oklahoma Isn’t Working. Can Anyone Fix this Failing American State?
Co-published with The Guardian. Poverty, police abuse, record prison rates and education cuts that mean a four-day school week. Why are public services failing Oklahomans?
Ranching Life on the High Plains of Montana
Co-published with The Guardian. Elliott D. Woods spent time in Phillips County in northern Montana, where public land is a source of life to which ranchers are …
How We’re Working with Reporters from Around America to Cover Class and Inequality
Co-published with The Guardian. The national media failed to cover large swathes of the US pre-election, while rural voices have been quieted by the decimation of local …
Working-Class Women are Too Busy for Gender Theory – But They’re Still Feminists
Co-published with The Guardian. You won’t get very far as a poor woman without believing you are equal to men – and if someone embodies this thought, …
“We Should Try to Preserve Humanity”
Co-published with Oxford American. The third installment in a series of four posts, featuring films produced in collaboration between the youth filmmakers of the 2016 Summer …
In Montana, Land Transfer Threatens the American Rancher’s Way of Life
Co-published with The Guardian and Mountain Outlaw Magazine. Ranchers in the west have been struggling for decades. Now a new threat looms: public land …
“You Will Come Here, and There Will Be Magical Things Happening”
Co-published with Oxford American. The films and filmmakers of the Summer Documentary Institute at Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute.