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Cleaning up the Parks

Posted on December 29, 2016 · Add Comment

Here’s an update to my Highline/Nation Institute Investigative Fund story, “Out Here No One Can Hear Your Scream,” from last March.

Early last year, a massive, years-long pattern of sexual harassment at the Grand Canyon, the crown jewel of the National Park Service, became a public scandal. As [...]

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Arkansas’s foster care surge due to ‘questionable removals’ of kids, DHS consultant finds

Posted on October 11, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

Twenty-two percent of Arkansas children who were placed in foster care in 2015 and early 2016 should have potentially been left with their families, representing a nearly 30 percent increase — amounting to at least 300 additional children — in “questionable removals” by the state’s child [...]

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Girl From the North Country

Posted on September 9, 2016 · Add Comment

New review up at The New Republic:

When Blair Braverman enrolled at age 18 in a Norwegian “folk school”—a self-guided education program with the “distinctly Scandinavian” aim of fostering “uncomfortable self-awareness”—she wanted to learn how to dogsled. From an early age, Braverman, a child of Southern California, had been transfixed by [...]

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In Uganda, Fostering a World Without Adoption

Posted on September 6, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Medium’s The Development Set:

In 2011, a young Ugandan woman I’ll call Evelyn learned she was HIV-positive when she was six months pregnant. Her husband’s family blamed her for the diagnosis, and declared they would find him a new wife. Newly alone and vulnerable, Evelyn was at a [...]

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Mother and child disunion

Posted on June 9, 2016 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

Ten days after her youngest son was born in April 2014, Lisa Rushing, a 27-year-old from Paragould, went to jail.

She’d been in trouble for a while: After receiving felony probation for credit card fraud, she’d failed to meet with her probation officer for at least [...]

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The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters

Posted on June 1, 2016 · Add Comment

New review at The New Republic:

In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to the safety of North American adoptive homes. [...]

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Story update: Top Grand Canyon Official To Retire Amidst Sexual Harassment Investigations

Posted on May 31, 2016 · Add Comment

Cross-posted from the Nation Institute Investigative Fund:

Amidst investigations revealing a pattern of sexual misconduct and a hostile work environment in Grand Canyon National Park, the park district’s superintendent David Uberuaga has announced his retirement.

In a letter emailed to Grand Canyon employees on May 17, Uberuaga described how he’d met with [...]

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Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream

Posted on March 17, 2016 · Add Comment
The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America’s parks and forests.

New story up at Huffington Post’s Highline magazine:

On an early Friday morning in late June 2006, Cheyenne Szydlo, a 33-year-old Arizona wildlife biologist with fiery red hair, drove to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim to [...]

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The Disappearing Soldier

Posted on March 7, 2016 · Add Comment

New story up at Pacific Standard:

On the second-to-last day of 2013, when the glow of Christmas had passed and there was nothing to do but settle in for months of unbroken winter, a stranger arrived in Saranac Lake, a 5,400-person mountain town 70 miles shy of the Canadian border. [...]

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The War Over Breastfeeding

Posted on November 23, 2015 · Add Comment

New book review up at The New Republic:

A dozen or so years since the emergence of the feminist blogosphere, it’s no surprise that a book about “lactivists”—the most fervent of breastfeeding advocates—contains a preponderance of stories from the “mommy wars.” A New York City cocktail party where an aggressive member [...]

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