Can Lawyers and Traumatized Clients Learn to Trust Each Other?
Co-published with Slate. Teaching the legal profession to understand the effects of trauma.
Probation Conditions Relaxed During the Pandemic. Some Say They Should Stay That Way.
Co-published with The Appeal. Public safety is not improved by stricter probation and parole rules, researchers have found.
Putting Food on the Table During a Pandemic
Co-published with The Nation. Photos from the grassroots food distribution networks that are keeping Los Angeles’s undocumented communities afloat.
‘I don’t get an extra check for locking you up’: a week with an LA probation officer
Co-published with The Guardian. Working for the county probation department, the largest in the nation, means being equal parts social worker and law enforcement.
Living on the Streets of L.A.
Co-published with Slate. I was homeless in Salt Lake City. But nothing prepared me for what I saw in Los Angeles’ Koreatown.
Los Angeles Artists Reinvent Their Roles in Gentrifying Communities
Co-published with The American Prospect. Poor and working-class neighborhoods often view new art galleries as heralds of gentrification—but some artists have joined with residents to fight …
Here’s What It’s Like to Live in a $17 Airbnb
Co-published with Alternet. The truth of the company's impact is more complicated—and less lofty—than democratizing travel.
Count to a Hundred
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Melissa Chadburn on anger, organizing, and the persistence necessary to carry on.
I Tried to Make My Home Energy Efficient and It’s Ruining My Life
Co-published with VICE. People across America are pitched what seems like a win-win: make your house more climate-friendly for little or no money down. Advocates say it's …
Why Do We Think Poor People are Poor Because of Their Own Bad Choices?
Co-published with The Guardian. If an unexpected medical emergency bankrupts you, you view yourself as a victim of bad fortune – while seeing other bankruptcy court clients …
‘[Somewhere in Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
The Gangs of L.A.
Co-published with The New York Times. Whatever happened to the "gangbanger"?