Selected Stories

The battle for the patio of College Court
May 2024, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Washington Post
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A harvest of memories
December 2023, Chickasaw County, Iowa
The Washington Post
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They’re worried their mom is becoming a conspiracy theorist
March 2021
The Washington Post
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Five days, 100 vaccine doses, and a wildfire of conspiracy theories among California farmworkers
May 2021, Cloverdale, C.A.
The Washington Post
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A mother’s charge
September 2022, Johnson County, Wyoming
The Washington Post
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Eight seconds to pain or glory: the story of a bull rider
November 2022, Laramie, Wyoming
The Washington Post
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The reinvention of a ‘real man’
May 2022, Buffalo, Wyoming
The Washington Post
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A ‘real man’ in a dress
December 2022, 1600 miles across Wyoming
The Washington Post
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A war veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories. Can he start over?
November 2021, Oneonta, N.Y.
The Washington Post
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The lonely journey of a UFO conspiracy theorist
September 2021, Denver
The Washington Post
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‘An American Tradition’: Lessons from a year covering conspiracy theories (Essay)
December 2021
The Washington Post
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In Michigan, a terminally ill man’s mission to cast a ballot
October 2020
The Washington Post
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How racism ripples through rural California’s pipes
November 2019, Teviston, C.A.
The New York Times
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They grow the nation's food, but they can't drink the water
May 2019, East Orosi, C.A.
The New York Times
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Water that leaves scars: The crisis lurking in California’s taps
July 2019, Compton, C.A.
The New York Times
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One call at a time, he listens as an economic crisis unfolds
April 2020
The Washington Post
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In an immigrant community battling coronavirus, ‘essential’ means ‘vulnerable’
May 2020
The Washington Post
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Latinos transformed Arizona. Do campaigns see them?
July 2020
The Washington Post
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Amid resentment and fatigue, Latino activists frustrated with Democrats make peace with Biden. For now.
August 2020
The Washington Post
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‘I can’t be myself here’: At the border, transgender women navigate two worlds
March 2019, Mexicali, Mexico
The New York Times
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The Bronx's quiet, brutal war with opioids
October 2017, New York, N.Y.
The New York Times
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‘Pit of infection’: A border town’s crisis has nothing to do with migrants
February 2019, Calexico, C.A.
The New York Times
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‘They were abusing us the whole way’: a tough path for gay and trans migrants
July 2018, Tijuana, Mex.
The New York Times
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It’s ‘not a wall,’ but steel slats and barbed wire roil a border town
January 2019, Calexico, C.A.
The New York Times
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Sick River: California tribes confront heroin and history
September 2018, Weitchpec, C.A.
The New York Times
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Needle by needle, a heroin crisis grips California’s rural north
May 2018, Eureka, C.A.
The New York Times
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