First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future
Co-published with The Nation. Not old enough to vote in 2016, these young voters of color are ready to fight for the world they want to …
As the Nation Braces for a Wave of Evictions, Some Bronx Tenants Fight Back
Co-published with Slate. When COVID struck, a group of tenants in the South Bronx went on rent strike. Will it work?
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 …
Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald
Co-published with Literary Hub. Poet Jen Fitzgerald chronicles her struggle with housing insecurity in a series of stunning fact-based poems and personal images.
When You Are Paid 13 Hours for a 24-Hour Shift
Co-published with The New York Times. America’s neglect of older people extends to the people who care for them at home.
Homeless Workers Face the Pandemic
Co-published with Slate. What do stay-at-home orders mean when there’s nowhere to stay?
Uncle Sam Needs to Start Giving Us All Free Hand Sanitizer
Co-published with the Washington Post. Call it Uncle San-itizer.
What 9/11 Can Teach Us About Responding to Coronavirus
Co-published with OtherWords. I helped 9/11 survivors and their families get relief. Here are the lessons I learned for the hard times ahead.
‘I’m Praying We’ll Be Back to Work:’ What It’s Like to Lose Your Job in a Pandemic
Co-published with The Guardian. They work in restaurants, they teach, they help people get fit – and suddenly, they can’t go to work. We profile six …
The Art of Eviction
Co-published with The Nation. How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Labor Day Is a Government Scam
Co-published with Teen Vogue. Even if Labor Day wasn’t intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.
I Grew Up Without a Fixed Address
Co-published with Curbed. Officially, entire chunks of my childhood don’t exist.