Against ‘Poor’ Reporting
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. As a new recession looms, our industry would do well to at least start to correct its legacy biases around coverage of …
Alabama Takes From the Poor and Gives to the Rich
Co-published with The New York Times. Fines and fees trap people in a kind of penury from which they may never escape.
Easy Money: How Counties Are Funneling Covid Relief Funds Into New Jails
Co-published with The Nation. Counties aren’t supposed to use Covid funds to build jails and prisons—but that hasn’t stopped some of them from trying to do it …
Taxpayers Spent Over Half a Million Dollars to Clean Homeless Encampments in Salt Lake County in 2021
Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune. Advocates say money would have been better spent on housing and services.
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating ‘Copaganda’
Co-published with Jacobin. Police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.”
Murder on the River
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. Critics say a lack of trust between police and the homeless community is to blame for an unsolved homicide in Utah.
After the Eviction Moratorium
Co-published with The New Republic. Around the nation, eviction filings are climbing. In numerous cities, cases now exceed 100 percent of the historical average.
Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.
Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune. New guidance from the Department of the Treasury clarifies funding is meant to ‘achieve housing stability.’
Traumatic Pregnancies Are Awful. Dobbs Will Make That So Much Worse.
Co-published with The Washington Post. Some pregnancies and births are difficult enough to give mothers PTSD. When a pregnancy is unwanted, the physical and psychological strains will …
When Innocence Isn’t Enough
Co-published with The New Republic. Christopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of …
What Are Other Names for Juneteenth? The U.S. Is Betraying the Spirit of ‘Jubilee Day’
Co-published with Teen Vogue. We’re still waiting on “a real age of emancipation,” writes Braxton Brewington.
Why Canceling Student Debt Should Be a Universal Benefit
Co-published with The Nation. The lesson from the Corinthian debt strikers: Should President Biden cancel student loan debt, it should be done without making debtors jump through hoops.