A National Bullying of the Poor: The Trouble With America’s Bootstrapping Myth
Co-published with The Guardian. Centuries of American thought support a hypocritical ideology that can be difficult to escape even when we want to.
Trump’s Job Promises Won’t Help Struggling Coal Counties
Co-published with Reuters. Appalachia needs a new chance to do what it does best: make it work.
Off Our Butts: How Smoking Bans Extinguish Solidarity
Co-published with The Baffler. Anti-smoking legislation is, and always has been, about social control.
American Ballad: A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor
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 to California's Central Valley, Cleveland and northern Maine to chronicle