The Disappearing Soldier,” Pacific Standard, 2016
The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism,” The New Republic, 2022
Deep State, Deep Church: How QAnon and Trumpism Have Infected the Catholic Church, Vanity Fair, 2020
A Search for Answers, A Search for Blame, Highline, 2019
“The Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland,” Mother Jones, 2021
She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids,” The Marshall Project / Longreads, 2020
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream,” Highline, 2016
“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?” The New Republic, 2015
No Money, No Lawyer, No Justice,” The New Republic, 2020
The Tragic Death of Hana Williams & How It Could Happen Again,” Slate, 2013
The New War on Birth Control,” Pacific Standard, 2018
Podcast: “Silence,” The Turning: The Sisters Who Left, Rococo Punch, 2021
The Takedown of Title IX,” The New York Times Magazine, 2017 
By Grace Alone,” The American Prospect, 2014
Shotgun Adoption,” The Nation, 2009
Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies,” The Nation, 2008
In Uganda, Fostering a World Without Adoption,” Medium/The Development Set, 2016 
Return to Sender,” Mother Jones, 2013
The Homeschool Apostates,” The American Prospect, 20`13
The Crime of Parenting While Poor,” The New Republic, 2018
The Forest Service Is Silencing Women,” Outside, 2018
The Loner,” Adirondack Life, 2017
Hillary’s Prayer: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics,” Mother Jones, 2007
The Silence of the Lambs,” The New Republic, 2018
The Adoption Crusade Targets Indian Country,” The Public Eye, 2014
Arkansas’s overloaded foster care system,” Arkansas Times, 2015
Arkansas’s child welfare system discriminates against relatives of neglectful or abusive parents,” Arkansas Times, 2015
Arrows for the War,” The Nation, 2006
Escape from Missouri,” Mother Jones, 2011
Emigration and Cosmetics: South Africa Now,” The Massachusetts Review, 2002

Salon

How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6
Evangelicals do battle with “critical race theory” in new online video course
“Parental rights” started on the Christian fringe — now it’s the GOP’s winning issue
Right-wing Catholic boomlet grows: “Gun Girl” signs up with Mother Church
All God’s Children

Highline

A Search for Answers, A Search for Blame
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream
Story update: Top Grand Canyon Official To Retire Amidst Sexual Harassment Investigations
Cleaning Up the Parks

Vanity Fair

Deep State, Deep Church: How QAnon and Trumpism Have Infected the Catholic Church

The New Republic

The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism
Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It.
No Money, No Lawyer, No Justice
The Man Behind the State Department’s New ‘Natural Law’ Focus
The Crime of Parenting While Poor
The Christianization of U.S. Foreign Policy
The Silence of the Lambs
Girl from the North Country
The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters
“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”
Why Does Open Adoption Rarely Work?
The War Over Breastfeeding

Pacific Standard

The New War on Birth Control
The Disappearing Soldier
The Rise of Biblical Counseling
To Protect Battered Women, You Have to Protect Their Pets

Mother Jones

The Pope Welcomed Biden. So Why Are US Catholic Bishops Waging a Holy War?
The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”
Mitt Romney’s Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies As Soon As Possible
Orphan Fever
Escape from Missouri
Hillary’s Prayer: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics
The Purpose Driven Wife

The Intercept

The Threat of International Adoption for Migrant Children Separated From Their Families

The Marshall Project

She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids

Outside

The Forest Service Is Silencing Women

Arkansas Times

Arkansas’s foster care surge due to ‘questionable removals’ of kids, DHS consultant finds
Mother and child disunion
Arkansas’s child welfare system discriminates against relatives of neglectful or abusive parents
Lost in the Foster Care Backlog
Arkansas’s overloaded foster care system

Slate

What David French’s Atlantic Piece Is Missing
The Tragic Death of Hana Williams & How It Could Happen Again
The Bizarre Religious Roots of the Abortion Tweeter
“Men’s Rights” Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective
Does Rick Warren’s Church Condone Domestic Violence?

The American Prospect

Report: Bob Jones University Responded to Rape Claims with Woeful Ignorance of the Law, Often Blaming Victims
By Grace Alone
The Homeschool Apostates
The FundamentaList, August 13, 2008
The FundamentaList, August 6, 2008

The New York Times

The Takedown of Title IX (The New York Times Magazine)
The Evangelical Orphan Boom

The Nation

Mexico’s Abortion Wars, American Style
The Adoption Commandment
At Claremont Institute, Christine O’Donnell Was Taught ABCs of Homophobia
Shotgun Adoption
Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies
Arrows for the War

Vox

Why adoption plays such a big, contentious role in US-Russia relations

Adirondack Life

The Neighbors
The Loner

The Atlantic

Adoption Inc: How Ethiopia’s Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists

Conscience

Meet the Medical Students for Choice
Seeing Is Believing: Questions about Faith-Based Organizations That Are Involved in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment (pdf)
Beyond Principled Duplicity: The Catholic Church, Condoms & HIV/AIDS in Africa

The Daily Beast

The Worst Adoption Therapy in the World
The Coming Crackdown on Mormon Liberals
Why is the Mormon Church Getting Out of the Adoption Business?
LGBT Christian College Students Fight For a Voice
‘The Child Catchers’: Evangelicals and the Fake-Orphan Racket
Evangelicals’ Adoption Battlecry

Misc.

The Turning: “Silence”
The Long, Strange History of Bill Gates Population Control Conspiracy Theories (HuffPost)
Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life (Wired)
She Was an Ultraconservative Texas Christian. Then Kai Was Born and Everything Changed (Fusion)
The Insulting Childbirth Experiences Mothers With Disabilities Endure (Cosmopolitan)
In Case ICE Comes Knocking, What Happens to the Kids? (Bright)
In Uganda, Fostering a World Without Adoption (The Development Set)
Home Care in Crisis (In These Times)
The Purpose-Driven Nation (Guernica)
The Dynamics of God (Harvard Divinity Bulletin)
Review, The Documentary Demographic Winter (Harvard Divinity Bulletin)
Girls Take the Lead (Ms.)
The Anti-Abortion Clinic Across the Street (Ms.)
I Am Biblical Woman, Hear Me Roar? (Ms.)
Women Who Want to Be Women: Review of Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America (Women’s Review of Books)
Legal in Name Alone: Review of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (Women’s Review of Books)
Dead of Winter (Search)
Review: The Means of Reproduction (Search)
A Mythical Land Called “Common Ground” (Patheos)
God’s Army (Babble)
Victory Through Daughters (Killing the Buddha)
Lila Rose: A Sweet Face to Accompany Extreme Anti-Abortion Claims (On the Issues)
Emigration and Cosmetics: South Africa Now (Massachusetts Review)

Religion Dispatches

Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight Over Abortion
Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin
“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family
Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights
Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults Are Victims
Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?
An Architect Re-Imagines the Synagogue as Ark, Shelter, Floating Fortress
Meet the New Haggards—Same as the Old Haggards?
The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment
Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend
The Anti-Gay Highway: New Report Details Relationship Between US Evangelicals and African Antigay Clergy
My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement
Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking
No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Antiabortion Foes Cry Racism
Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born
Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence
McCain’s VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals
More

Newsweek

Christian Soldiers: The Fight Over Evangelizing Military Chaplains
Extreme Motherhood
Not Your Father’s Immigrant Lit
The Madcap Side of Sobering Up
Hamlet at the Water Cooler
The Other Jamestown Party

The Public Eye

The Adoption Crusade Targets Indian Country
Abortion as “Black Genocide”: An Old Scare Tactic Re-emerges

Rewire

‘Philomena’ Reminds Us That the ‘Baby Scoop Era’ Affected Millions
Eight Is Not Enough? The Big Families We Love to Hate
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Christian Conservatives Seek to “Restore” Women
Untold Consequences: Rick Warren’s AIDS Activism
More

The Revealer

We See Empire
The Last Man on Earth: A Romance
Re-Branding Revolution
Godzilla, Born Again
Secular Confessions
More