How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
Co-published with The Nation. For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it …
Bringing the Dead Home
Co-published with the Texas Observer. Thirty years after Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, only a fraction of human remains held by …
New York Tenants Are Organizing Against Evictions as They Did in the Great Depression
Co-published with Retro Report and THE CITY. Anticipating a massive wave of evictions when the federal and state bans are lifted in January, …
I Watched War Erupt in the Balkans. Here’s What I See in America Today.
Co-published with The Intercept. I watched war erupt in the Balkans. Here's what I see in America today.
F is for Fake
Co-published with the Texas Observer and The Nation. How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on …
Millions of American Latinos Have a Complicated Relationship With Christopher Columbus
Co-published with The Independent. Our history leaves us with a conflicting assignment: to be wide awake and aware, and discerning enough to detest what Columbus did while …
Tenants Facing Eviction Over COVID-19 Look to a 1970s Solution
Co-published with Retro Report and The New York Times. With mass evictions on the horizon, a counterintuitive proposal to help renters buy …
Occupy Wall Street’s Legacy Runs Deeper Than You Think
Co-published with Teen Vogue. Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.
People’s History, Episode 1: “Placement”
Co-published with Jacobin. At Columbia Point, a new public housing project in Boston, mothers organize to try and close the city dump.
People’s History Podcast
Co-published with Jacobin. Coming November 19, A People’s History is a striking, new documentary podcast series from Jacobin and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
The Scarlet E, Episode 4: “Solutions”
Co-published with WNYC Studios. In this fourth and final episode of The Scarlet E, On the Media evaluates potential solutions to America’s crippling eviction epidemic.
The Scarlet E, Episode 3: “Landlords & Tenants”
Co-published with WNYC Studios. This is the dollars-and-cents episode of The Scarlet E, in which On the Media sets their sights on the practicalities and pitfalls …