Latino Churches Are Social Service Hubs
Co-published with Christian Century. Yet their extensive efforts go largely unseen outside their communities.
They Believe Pesticides Caused Their Cancers. Proving It Is Almost Impossible.
Co-published with The Wall Street Journal. Farmworkers in California’s Salinas Valley work with pesticides tied to illnesses, including some cancers.
Belabored: How Workers Escape, with Saket Soni
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.
The Border Patrol’s Fearless 5%
Co-published with Reveal. Female agents are so rare in the U.S. Border Patrol that they have their own nickname: the Fearless 5%. It’s meant as a badge of honor, but the title is a bold admission of the
Can Iowa Meatpacking Workers Take on Tyson?
Co-published with In These Times. The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.
I was wrongly detained at the border. It’s part of a larger problem.
Co-published with The Washington Post. It shouldn’t be so hard to differentiate between law-abiding U.S. citizens and wanted criminals.
Long Waits, Bureaucratic Hassles Loom as Border Set to Reopen
Co-published with KPBS. Tens of thousands of Tijuana residents are scrambling to get proof of vaccination as the U.S. finally lifts a COVID-19-era restriction on non-essential border crossings.
The Latinx Future Will Not Look Like the Latinx Past
Co-published with The Nation. My generation is more outspoken—about inequality, assimilation, racism, and more—than those that came before.
Dreamers Look Forward To Biden Administration After Being Left In Limbo
Co-published with KPBS. DACA recipients, or Dreamers as they’ve come to be known, have been left in limbo amid the pandemic and the Trump administration's actions to end DACA.
There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother
Co-published with The Nation. In the Haitian Creole language, “Gwo Fanm” means “Big Woman,” a woman who shoulders more than their fair share of burdens in this life.
True Poetry
Co-published with Poetry Magazine. Our executive director Alissa Quart writes on why (and how) we should try more inventive, non-standard ways of presenting the truth, like documentary poetry.
Winter Cold Brings New Challenges to Asylum Seekers Living in Matamoros, Mexico
Co-published with Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The number of asylum seekers living in Matamoros, Mexico, has grown to more than 2,000 over the past 2 months. Despite infrastructure improvements, refugees face a new challenge: winter.