Housing Is a Right. During a Pandemic, It’s Also a Fight.
Co-published with The Nation. In California’s agricultural heartland, farmworkers are fighting back against expensive rents, substandard housing, and economic disenfranchisement.
When My Father Called Me About His Unemployment
Co-published with Slate. I cheer the new benefits. I also know exactly who will continue to bear this burden.
The Latinx Future Will Not Look Like the Latinx Past
Co-published with The Nation. My generation is more outspoken—about inequality, assimilation, racism, and more—than those that came before.
There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother
Co-published with The Nation. In the Haitian Creole language, “Gwo Fanm” means “Big Woman,” a woman who shoulders more than their fair share of burdens in …
New York Home Care Workers Challenge Their Union to End 24-Hour Shifts
Co-published with Prism. In New York, home care workers are demanding the abolition of the grueling 24-hour shift and accusing one of America's largest unions of not …
How This City in a Deep Red State Is Helping Immigrants During COVID-19
Co-published with Latino Rebels. Despite being in one of the reddest states in the nation, Tulsa is leading the way in breaking down barriers for immigrants and …
Trafficking in Teachers
Co-published with Oxford American. Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.
Arkansas Poultry Workers Amid the Coronavirus: ‘We’re Not Essential, We’re Expendable’
Co-published with the Arkansas Times and the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network. Poultry workers in Arkansas describe appalling and unsanitary working conditions at …
True Poetry
Co-published with Poetry Magazine. Our executive director Alissa Quart writes on why (and how) we should try more inventive, non-standard ways of presenting the truth, like …
Winter Cold Brings New Challenges to Asylum Seekers Living in Matamoros, Mexico
Co-published with Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The number of asylum seekers living in Matamoros, Mexico, has grown to more than 2,000 over the past 2 months. Despite …
‘Afraid… for the Children.’ Inside the Mexico Tent City Where Asylum Seekers Live and Wait
Co-published with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A new film takes viewers inside a tent city in Matamoros, Mexico, where hundreds live in appalling conditions while waiting …
The Fight Against Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. The Trump administration’s plan to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program, if successful, will separate more than a quarter …