Co-published with Defector. As a full-time worker, as well as a single mom responsible for three children, Nieshea Walker still can’t afford the average market-rate rental apartment in …

Co-published with Esquire. There are at least three million caregivers under age twenty-five in America. The burdens they face are unprecedented. Their resolve is our only hope.

Co-published with The Believer. A striking series of documentary poems about ex-offenders and their struggle to find housing after prison in Cleveland, Ohio.

Co-published with The Daily Beast. These voters were made—not born. The way to change that may be a contemporary New Deal to support “laboratories” to restore …

Co-published with The New Republic. With General Motors workers on strike since mid-September, a labor union in Ohio votes on a controversial contract.

Co-published with The New Republic. The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

Co-published with Longreads. When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.

Co-published with The Guardian. In a tiny south-eastern Ohio town in the Appalachian foothills, the Hazel Ginsburg Well is holding waste from out-of-state fracking operations – a …

Co-published with Reuters. Appalachia needs a new chance to do what it does best: make it work.

Co-published with Lenny Letter. How becoming a single mom in a depressed town helped one woman let go of perfection.

Co-published with Smithsonian Magazine. To mark the 75th anniversary of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Matt Black and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge, traveled …

Co-published with The New Yorker. In the spring of 2009, Kate Linthicum traveled to rural Ohio to meet the people Eich had been photographing.