Life Inside a Pre-Release Center: Like Prison, But More Work
Co-published with VICE News. Life in pre-release is like a grim resource-management video game where you have to juggle ironclad schedules and severe punishments for small …
Along the Keystone XL Pipeline, Hoping for a Miracle
Co-published with The Nation. This election could decide whether one of the most destructive fossil fuel projects continues to be built, or is brought to a halt.
Portrait of the Artist as a Single Mom
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. How one mother became a writer while feeding herself and two young children on food stamps.
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 …
The Mental Load Of Being A Poor Mom
Co-published with Refinery29. Who is there for a solo parent to ask for help?
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 …
The Class Politics of Decluttering
This story originally appeared in The New York Times with support from EHRP. Minimalism is a virtue only when it’s a choice
The New War on Food Stamps
Co-published with AlterNet. Conservative lawmakers are making it harder for the hungry to feed themselves.