Many Nursing Homes Are Poorly Staffed. How Do They Get Away With it?
Co-published with USA Today. President Biden has promised tougher standards, but USA TODAY found the government rarely enforces existing guidelines.
‘I Have To Make These Years Count’
Co-published with Fast Company. Tanya Perry vowed to give her daughter, Nikki, more opportunity than she had. But even as Nikki accomplished her goals, racism and economic mobility …
Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body, But It Has Abandoned My Brain
Co-published with the Chicago Reader. I want choice, not a fistful of unhelpful options from the cruel system we make poor people navigate to access health care.
Zombie Debts Are Hounding Struggling Americans. Will You Be Next?
Co-published with The Guardian. Tens of thousands of people have received demands to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits – often decades old – plunging them …
I’m Drowning In $120K Of Student Debt And I’m Suing Betsy DeVos To Make Her Fix That
Co-published with HuffPost. I will force America's billionaire education secretary to finally follow the law.
A Better Alternative to For-Profit College
Co-published with TIME. The U.S. should focus on training programs for students, not profits.
A Thousand Midnights
Co-published with The New Yorker and The Atlantic. The breathtaking visual legacy of the Great Migration, which saw millions of African-Americans leave the South …