The Atlantic • 5th March 2019Is This the End of Recycling? Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
The Atlantic • 13th February 2019When Wall Street Is Your Landlord With help from the federal government, institutional investors became major players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are happy. Tenants are not.
The Atlantic • 1st February 2019The White Flight From Football Parents know that football comes with a risk of brain damage. But many black families feel that the sport is still the best option for their kids.
The Atlantic • 25th June 2018I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare The day I spent doing Amazon Flex.
The Atlantic • 21st August 2018‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’ How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders
The Atlantic • 1st February 2018What Amazon Does to Poor Cities Amazon has rapidly expanded warehouses into low-income suburbs, bringing jobs. But is it a positive presence in these communities?
The Atlantic • 30th January 2017America’s Great Divergence A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.
The Atlantic • 30th August 2015The Village That Will Be Swept Away Erosion is destroying Newtok, and its residents have voted to move. But where will they go and who will pay?
The Atlantic • 2nd June 2016The Graying of Rural America As young people increasingly move to cities, what happens to the people and places they leave behind?
The Atlantic • 25th January 2016Crossing the Mexican-American Border, Every Day A profile of Valeria Padilla, one of the thousands of people who cross from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso every day, living a binatinoal existence.
The Atlantic • 4th December 2015When the Government Tells Poor People How to Live What happened when a Massachusetts public housing authority required that tenants work or go to school in order to keep their spots.
The Atlantic • 2nd January 2019How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon A growing number of self-proclaimed experts promise they can teach anyone how to make a passive income selling cheap Chinese goods in the internet's largest store. Not everyone’s getting rich quick.