A Housing Crisis in Paradise
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Two residential developments in Marin County have, for different reasons, met with resistance from their communities. What can they tell us about the way out of California’s housing emergency?
Medical Residents Nationwide Are Unionizing. What Does That Mean for the Future of Healthcare?
Co-published with Grid. Young physicians in training are being squeezed by labor shortages, inflation and long hours.
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 their apartments has emerged.
What It’s Like Riding Along With a Valet Driver at a San Francisco Strip Club
Co-published with The Washington Post. Photographer Rian Dundon documented his time parking cars for a strip club.
To Help the Homeless, Offer Shelter That Allows Deep Sleep
Co-published with San Francisco Chronicle. Sleep deprivation haunts unhoused people, worsening the trauma that sometimes caused their unsheltered situations in the first place.
MeToo’s Hidden Activists? Working-Class Women
Co-published with The Guardian. Janitors and fast-food workers, not celebrities, are ground zero of the MeToo movement. Time to shift the focus to them.
For Two Immigrant Artists, American Dream is Uncertain
Co-published with KQED. What would our local arts communities look like without DACA?
Mind Your Own Business
Co-published with The Baffler. How Silicon Valley commodified and sold you "mindfulness".
Teachers Are Working for Uber Just to Keep a Foothold in the Middle Class
Co-published with The Nation. For the ride-share company, teacher/drivers are both a marketing coup and an exploitable labor force.
What Happens When LGBT People Are Priced Out of the Neighborhood?
Co-published with The Advocate. The LGBT men and women who helped establish the modern identities of cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia are getting pushed out.
Inequality Has Gotten So Bad That We’re Offshoring Our Grandparents
Co-published with The Nation. Americans can’t afford to retire in the United States, so many are moving south of the border, trading one form of inequity for another.
Zen and the Art of Uber Driving
Co-published with Fast Company's Co.Exist with additional support from Capital & Main. I used to write for a newspaper. Now I'm an Uber driver: "Thanks to Uber, I am not poor. I am just