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City of Fear

Posted on July 22, 2018 · Add Comment

I’m proud to have contributed reporting to this major joint New York Magazine/Marshall Project investigation into life as an undocumented immigrant in New York City.

The fear of losing their children can be paralyzing. Groups are advising parents on what to do if they are separated from their children.

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

Posted on July 1, 2018 · Add Comment

New story at The Intercept:

When news reports first began to emerge that 81 of the migrant children recently separated from their parents had been sent into the care of one of the largest adoption agencies in the country, the response was swift alarm. Was the government planning on creating “social [...]

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The Takedown of Title IX

Posted on December 5, 2017 · Add Comment

New story at The New York Times Magazine:

Last year, the phone rang in the office of the New York attorney Andrew T. Miltenberg. On the line was Tom Rossley, a trustee for 23 years at Drake University in Iowa. His son, Thomas, had just [...]

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The New War on Birth Control: How the Christian Right is co-opting the women’s rights movement to fight contraceptives in Africa

Posted on August 17, 2017 · Add Comment

New story up at Pacific Standard:

In July of 2010, newspapers in Ghana published a “Wanted” poster featuring the face of a quiet-looking man in his sixties with rimless glasses, sideswept hair, and a deeply lined forehead. The image bore a striking resemblance to flyers used by radical anti-abortion groups [...]

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

Posted on July 22, 2017 · Add Comment

New story at Vox:

As recently as Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer bizarrely stuck toDonald Trump Jr.’s self-debunked excuse for his 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and a former Soviet spy: that the meeting was “primarily” about adoption. He hewed to that line even though [...]

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The Silence of the Lambs

Posted on June 20, 2017 · Add Comment

New story up at The New Republic:

It was a hot day in July, a Saturday afternoon, and Kim James was bored. Her older sisters had taken her to a church event in their small hometown in Indiana, where the girls were spending their summer. Her parents were back in Bangladesh, [...]

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The Insulting Childbirth Experiences Mothers With Disabilities Endure

Posted on May 9, 2017 · Add Comment

New story up at Cosmo:

Shortly after Nikki Villavicencio gave birth via C-section, there was a complication. Her daughter, Alexandria, was coughing up blood, and Alley’s stomach was swelling. Nikki’s doctors wanted to transfer Alley to the children’s hospital across town. Already afraid for their baby, Nikki and her [...]

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

Posted on April 28, 2017 · Add Comment

I’m very honored that my March, 2016 piece, “Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream” is included in this year’s edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, due out in October!

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She Was an Ultraconservative Texas Christian. Then Kai Was Born and Everything Changed.

Posted on March 26, 2017 · Add Comment

New story up at Fusion:

On the Monday before Christmas break at an elementary school in Pearland, Texas, just south of Houston, a five-year-old girl named Kai went with the rest of her kindergarten classmates to the library. Physically slight but hugely affectionate with silky blond hair, Kai loved her teacher, her classmates, [...]

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The Loner

Posted on March 9, 2017 · Add Comment

New story at Adirondack Life:

When John Maday and two other investigators from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office came upon the campsite, the first thing they saw was a man’s feet inside his crude lean-to of pine branches, blankets and tarps. The campsite was built on a flat area [...]

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