New York magazine
The Memory War
When Jennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse, her parents set out to discredit her—creating a controversial school of psychology that has bolstered the defense of countless sex offenders.
10+ min |
January 4-17, 2021
The Atlantic
China's Rebel Historians
Defiant researchers chronicle a past that the Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
10+ min |
January - February 2021
Reason magazine
Biden Pledges To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
“Today, The Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Change Agreement,” tweeted President-elect Joe Biden on November 4, 2020. “And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it.”
2 min |
February 2021
New York magazine
Living With Karens
A white woman calls the polıce on her Black neıghbors. Sıx months later, they stıll share a property lıne.
10+ min |
December 21, 2020-January 3, 2021
Inc.
Seesaw – Best in Class
For helping to make remote learning work during the pandemic.
5 min |
Winter 2020 - 2021
Fast Company
The Loudest Voice
Corporate America needs to get on the right side of history. Civil rights nonprofit color of change gets it there – ready or not.
10+ min |
Winter 2020/2021
Mother Jones
Color by Numbers
GreatSchools has become the go-to source for information on local schools. Yet its ratings could be making neighborhood segregation worse.
10+ min |
November/December 2020
The Atlantic
School Wasn't So Great Before Covid, Either
Yes, remote schooling has been a misery—but it’s offering a rare chance to rethink early education entirely.
10+ min |
December 2020
Reason magazine
An Anti-racist Education for Middle Schoolers
K-12 STUDENTS IN large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall semester at home, a less-than-ideal result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Zoom learning was hardly the only significant change to the education system. Some school districts are embracing trendy but dubious ideas about how to fight racism in the classroom.
6 min |
January 2021
The Atlantic
Bringing Politics Into the Classroom
Why it’s impossible—and irresponsible— for teachers in minority communities to ignore the subject
10 min |
December 2020
Popular Science
Landing a Lifeline
For those whose livelihood depends on the ocean, a covid-spurred interruption in the seafood market might speed progress toward a more sustainable future—for them and for fish.
10+ min |
Winter 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Build Here
Wildfires are close to torching the insurance industry in California
10+ min |
November 16, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Alone, Ignored, And the Virus at The Door
Nursing homes responded to the pandemic by blame-shifting, but an investigation into a troubled chain suggests the industry could have done more to stop outbreaks
10+ min |
November 09, 2020
Techlife News
A Desk of Their Own To Ease Remote Learning For Kids In Need
As remote schooling surged during the pandemic, parents across the country realized that many kids didn’t have desks at home.
3 min |
October 24, 2020
Mother Jones
Cop Out
How Black Oaklanders finally expelled the school police
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
THE PRICE OF PURPLE
Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS
Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
WEAVING FOR THEIR ANCESTORS
For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles
10 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
The Great Wall of Mongolia
A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire
8 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
CANADA'S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL
Beneath the streets of Old Montreal, the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country’s growing pains
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Chicago Press for the People
On September 24, 2009, sixteen-year-old student Derrion Albert was beaten to death outside of Christian Fenger Academy High School, on the South Side of Chicago, in broad daylight. Though there were many witnesses, one of whom captured the attack on cell-phone video, no one stepped in to help. The footage of the murder went viral, highlighting the severity of the city’s youth violence epidemic, as Albert was the third teenager killed in Chicago that month.
4 min |
November - December 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Becoming the Notorious RBG
Ginsburg found pop superstardom late in life—and that may ensure that her dissents echo into the future
9 min |
September 28, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Wealth of Opportunity But For Whom?
Over seven decades, Norfolk leveraged federal tax breaks to remake itself. Now the Virginia city is using them to demolish its historically Black neighborhoods
10+ min |
September 28, 2020
The Atlantic
The New Southern Strategy
How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Claudia Rankine's Quest for Racial Dialogue
Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?
10 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
Abolish Qualified Immunity
This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
8 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Mother Jones
True West
The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker
In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe
10+ min |