Co-published with Crosscut. The state ranks near worst in the nation for constraints on civil asset forfeiture.

Co-published with Crosscut. Washington police sell or use millions of dollars’ worth of seized property each year. Legislators haven’t managed to change the rules.

Co-published with Crosscut. Even as Washington winds down its drug war, police still seize homes and cash from low-level suspects.

Co-published with The Lily. Washington and Hawaii are among the few states that have designed programs to relieve such pressures.

Co-published with In These Times. The government’s online food assistance program doesn’t include independent grocers and ignores the gaps in rural infrastructure.

Co-published with Ms. Magazine. Until the stories of poor, regular and working-class sexual assault survivors become visible, our needs will remain invisible too.

Co-published with Quartz. My odyssey from the middle class to Ace Check Cashing, speaking with a teller through a window of three-inch-thick bulletproof-glass, was simultaneously surreal and …

Co-published with The Atlantic. A photo essay Scenes from the daily lives of farmworkers in central Washington