Reporting (By date and publication)

Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers' Rights
(The Intercept, August 5 2019)

The Future of the Forward
(Jewish Currents, July 31, 2019)

Fear Is Not A Good Principle 
(Jewish Currents, July 25, 2019)

The Just Transition for Coal Workers Can Start Now. Colorado Is Showing How.
(In These Times, July 24, 2019)

A California Bill Could Transform The Lives of Gig Workers. Silicon Valley Wants Labor's Help To Stop It. 
(The Intercept, July 19, 2019)

How Morgan Harper's Ohio Primary Challenge Explains the House Democratic Meltdown
(The Intercept, July 16, 2019)

The Charter School Primary
(The American Prospect, July 15, 2019)

Will Bernie Sanders Stick With A Carbon Tax In His Push for a Green New Deal?
(The Intercept, July 3, 2019)

Conservatives Are Nudging The Supreme Court To Dismantle Affordable Housing Policies
(The Intercept, June 25, 2019)

We Have To Finance A Global Green New Deal — Or Face The Consequences
(The Intercept, June 24, 2019)

As Consumer Protections Dwindle, Schools Push Financial Literacy
(The American Prospect, June 10, 2019)

How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned to Work Together in New York
(In These Times, June 10, 2019)

The Radical Teachers Movement Comes to Baltimore
(The Nation, June 7, 2019)

Credder Hopes To Crowdsource Away Fake News
(Columbia Journalism Review, May 31, 2019)

​Conservatives Pushed A Strategy to Weaken Home Healthcare Unions. The Trump Administration Bit.
(The Intercept, May 31, 2019)

Connecticut's Democratic Governor is Stonewalling A Bill That Would Make Phone Calls From Prison Free 
(The Intercept, May 23, 2019)

GOP-Led Efforts to Crush Unions Have A New Target: Home Health Care Workers 
(The Intercept, May 16, 2019)

What People in Kentucky Coal Country Really Think About a Green New Deal
(In These Times, May 9, 2019)

Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?
(The Hechinger Report, May 2, 2019)

After a Black Cop Was Convicted of Killing a White Woman, Minnesota Activists Say Focus Should be on Police Reform
(The Intercept, May 2, 2019)

Washington Becomes First State To Approve Publicly-Funded Long-Term Care
(The Intercept, April 26, 2019)

Can Opportunity Zone Tax Breaks Be a Boon for Charter Schools?
(CityLab, April 23, 2019)

Maine AFL-CIO Becomes First State Federation to Support a Green New Deal Bill
(In These Times, April 22, 2019)

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Is Facing A Primary Challenge
(The Intercept, April 19, 2019)

Julián Castro Got Off Easy for Ethics Trouble In The Last Presidential Campaign
(The Intercept, April 10, 2019)

18 Federal Workers On What It's Really Like to Work For the Trump Administration 
(Washingtonian, April 7, 2019)

A Black Woman Said She Was Afraid of The Police. A Nearly All-White Disciplinary Panel Said We Don’t Believe You.
(The Intercept, April 5, 2019)

Baltimore Has an Ongoing Debate About Arming School Police
(Next City, April 3, 2019)

Free Prison Calls Could Be Coming to Connecticut
(The Intercept, April 2, 2019)

The New Politics of the Retirement Crisis
(The New Republic, March 27, 2019)

Beto O'Rourke's Free Ride on Charter Schools Won't Last For Long
(The Intercept, March 27, 2019)

A Federal Civil Rights Office Wants To Limit Access To Emotional Support Animals That Can Help With Depression
(The Intercept, March 18, 2019)

This Ward 8 High School Had Its Charter Revoked. Now It’s Fighting Back
(DCist, March 14, 2019)

Senate Bill Proposes Smaller Class Sizes for High-Poverty School Districts
(Next City, March 14, 2019)

Strategies for a Post-Roe America — and for Post-Roe American Women
(The American Prospect, March 11, 2019)

The Charter School Movement Weakens in California
(The American Prospect, March 8, 2019)

Labor Unions Are Skeptical of the Green New Deal, And They Want Activists To Hear Them Out
(The Intercept, February 28, 2019)

Bridges Public Charter School Dismisses Well-Loved Teacher Who Spoke Out
(Washington City Paper, February 17, 2019)

Even for Washington, The Fight Over Online Gambling Has Been Unusually Shady
(The Intercept, February 15, 2019)

Teachers’ Strikes Are Rattling Washington. This Hearing in the U.S. House Is Proof.
(In These Times, February 14, 2019)

To Block One Decertification Vote, a Teachers Union May Undo Charter Teachers’ Right to Unionize Nationally
(The American Prospect, February 13, 2019)

In L.A., Magnet Schools Attracting Students but Not Headlines
(Next City, February 12, 2019)

A Lawsuit Threatens a Groundbreaking School-Desegregation Case
(The Nation, February 11, 2019)

Sheldon Adelson Got A Surprise Gift in the Middle of the Government Shutdown
(The Intercept, February 8, 2019)

D.C. Charter Administrators Have Some of the Highest School Salaries in Town; Their Teachers, Some of the Lowest
(Washington City Paper, January 30, 2019)

Coming Off LA Strike Victory, A New Wave Of Teacher Protests Takes Hold
(The Intercept, January 29, 2019)

A Democratic Firm Is Shaking Up The World Of Political Fundraising
(The Intercept, January 24, 2019)

Who’s Trying to Kill BDS on Campus?
(Jewish Currents, January 21, 2019)

LA Teachers Are Mad About Charter School Growth. Why Won’t Democrats Acknowledge That?
(The Intercept, January 15, 2019)

Los Angeles Teachers Poised to Strike
(The American Prospect, January 7, 2019)

New Jersey Is Getting Sued Over School Segregation
(CityLab, January 3, 2019)

Workers Just Notched a Rare Win In Federal Court
(The Intercept, January 3, 2019)

Could Expanding Employee Ownership Be The Next Big Economic Policy?
(The Intercept, December 26, 2018)

Special Ed. Advocates Call for Investigation Into Unlicensed Company Serving Charter Students
(Washington City Paper, December 19 2018)

Emails Show Political Group No Labels Gave Work To Firms Linked To Founder’s Husband
(The Intercept, December 19 2018)

How Schools Can Follow the Money That Should Be Theirs
(The American Prospect, December 19 2018)

A GOP Governor Has a Chance To Fix A Blue State’s Draconian Approach to Paroling Juvenile Offenders
(The Intercept, December 10 2018)

Pro-Charter School Democrats, Embattled in the Trump Era, Score a Win With Hakeem Jeffries
(The Intercept, November 30, 2018)

Plans for a D.C. Education Research Collaborative Move Forward, and Politicking Ensues
(Washington City Paper, November 26, 2018)

D.C. May Soon Have The Most Progressive Child Care System In The Country
(DCist, November 19, 2018)

Amazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers At Least $4.6 Billion
(The Intercept, November 15, 2018)

Why Ben Jealous Lost the Maryland’s Governor Race
(The Intercept, November 7, 2018)

Letting Non-citizens Vote in the Trump Era
(The Nation, November 1, 2018)

How The Charter School Wars Turned An Obscure Race Into California’s Second Most Expensive Election
(The Intercept, November 1, 2018)

The Maryland Green Party wants to win. So it has 24 candidates on the ballot.
(Washington Post Magazine, October 31, 2018)

What Happened to the Black-Jewish Political Alliance?
(Jewish Currents, October 25, 2018)

Democratic Consulting Firm Teams Up with Hospital Industry To Battle Nurses Union
(The Intercept, October 19, 2018)

Nearly Every Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Still Takes Corporate PAC Money
(The Intercept, October 14, 2018)

Can a Blue Wave in a Blue State Make Ben Jealous Maryland’s First African American Governor?
(The American Prospect, October 12, 2018)

D.C.’s Master Facilities Plan Will Shape the City’s Balance Between Neighborhood Schools and Charters
(Washington City Paper, October 10, 2018)

With Focus on Keith Ellison Allegations, Karen Monahan Retains New Attorney
(The Intercept, October 3, 2018)

Modern Monetary Theory Grapples With People Actually Paying Attention To It
(The Intercept, October 2, 2018)

Taking Back the Suburbs: The Fair Housing Act at Fifty
(Dissent, October 1, 2018)

Elizabeth Warren Introduces Plan to Expand Affordable Housing and Dismantle Racist Zoning Practices
(The Intercept, September 28, 2018)

Council Challenges Executive Branch, Urban Institute at Contentious Education Research Collaborative Hearing
(Washington City Paper, September 20, 2018)

Don’t Trust Jeff Bezos’s Preschool Philanthropy Scheme
(In These Times, September 20, 2018)

Democrats Need Voters’ Help To Fix Gerrymandering. Will They Get It?
(Talking Points Memo, September 6, 2018)

Florida Has Been Stealing Votes From Black People Since The Civil War. That Could Change In November.
(The Intercept, September 6, 2018)

A “Social Wealth Fund” Could Be The Next Big Idea
(The Intercept, August 28 2018)

Ben Carson’s Drive to Further Segregate Housing Gets a Boost In Court
(The Intercept, August 20 2018)

Chamber of Commerce, MoveOn Back Connecticut Democrat Mary Glassman Over “Teacher of the Year” Jahana Hayes
(The Intercept, August 14 2018)

“It Was All True”: Minnesota Attorney General’s Former Deputy Speaks Out About Participation In Political Work
(The Intercept, August 9 2018)

Minnesota Attorney General — Now Frontrunner for Governor — Relied on Government Employees for Campaign Work
(The Intercept, August 6 2018)

Data Mining
(Washington City Paper, July 26 2018)

Lawsuit Against Project Veritas May Shed New Light on Right-Wing Group’s Internal Operations
(The Intercept, July 23 2018)

Maryland’s GOP Governor Recently Opposed Trump on Immigration, But His Record Tells A Different Story
(The Intercept, July 12 2018)

Teachers File New Labor Charge Against Cesar Chavez Charter Network and TenSquare, a Consulting Firm
(Washington City Paper, July 6 2018)

After Janus, The Country’s Largest Public-Sector Union Takes Stock of Its Movement
(The Intercept, July 6 2018)

Supreme Court’s Janus Decision Opens A “Pandora’s Box” For Public-Sector Unions
(The Intercept, June 28 2018)

Has the New America Foundation Lost its Way?
(Washingtonian, June 24 2018)

When a Suburb Tries to Densify, Forget ‘Minnesota Nice’
(CityLab, June 21 2018)

Apprenticeships, A Favorite of Trump Administration, Carry Major Potential for Foster Youth
(Chronicle of Social Change, June 20 2018)

Backed by Obama Alums, A Law-And-Order Candidate Aims To Topple Progressive Leaders in Baltimore
(The Intercept, June 20 2018)

Arkansas’ Medication Abortion Ban Was Hit With a Temporary Restraining Order. Here’s What’s Next.
(Rewire News, June 20 2018)

Is School a Waste of Time?
(Democracy, June 14 2018)

A War Between Nevada Teacher Unions Spills Over Into Democratic Gubernatorial Primary
(The Intercept, June 8 2018)

Congress Still Won’t Pay For Busing to Desegregate Schools
(Next City, June 4 2018)

A Split Among Labor Groups Has Made a Maryland Primary Suddenly Contentious
(The Intercept, June 1 2018)

Turnaround Runaround
(Washington City Paper, May 28, 2018)

An Unusual Idea for Fixing School Segregation
(The Atlantic, May 23, 2018)

Jahana Hayes: The National Teacher of the Year Not Giving Up on Her Run for Congress
(The Intercept, May 21, 2018)

Cash Incentives for Charter School Recruitment: Unethical Bribe or Shrewd Marketing Technique?
(The Intercept, May 21, 2018)

Families Stranded After Rocketship Charter School Fails to Open Ward 5 Location
(Washington City Paper, May 14, 2018)

The Trump Administration Is Making It Easier to Evade Housing Desegregation Law, Triggering Civil Rights Lawsuit
(The Intercept, May 8, 2018)

Teachers Are Finally Winning Raises, But Many of Their Co-Workers Aren’t
(The American Prospect, May 8, 2018)

Conservatives Work to Undermine Oklahoma Teachers’ Raises After Walkout
(Rewire News, May 7, 2018)

Georgia Bus Drivers Joined The School Uprising, And Paid a Price
(The Intercept, April 22, 2018)

Politicized By Trump, Teachers Threaten to Shake Up Red-State Politics
(The Intercept, April 17, 2018)

A Five-Decade Fight to Improve Housing Choices for the Poor
(City Lab, April 12, 2018)

A New Type Of Bank Offers A Lifeline For Those Trapped In A Vicious Cycle Of Debt
(HuffPost, April 12, 2018)

The Teachers’ Movement Goes Virtual
(The Atlantic, April 11, 2018)

The Libertarian Who Accidentally Helped Make the Case for Regulation
(Washington Monthly, April 9, 2018)

Donald Trump and the GOP Are Expanding a Controversial Obama-Era Public Housing Program
(The Intercept, April 2, 2018)

Donald Trump’s Civil Rights Office for Housing Has Found the Real Problem: Pets
(The Intercept, March 23, 2018)

National Labor Relations Board Finds That Cesar Chavez Charter Network Violated Federal Labor Law
(Washington City Paper, March 15, 2018)

Betsy DeVos Is Now Fighting The Union At The Education Department
(The Intercept, March 15, 2018)

Teacher Unrest Spreads to Oklahoma
(The Intercept, March 6, 2018)

Bernie Sanders on Puerto Rico Neglect: “Do You Think This Would Be Happening in Westchester County?”
(The Intercept, March 2, 2018)

The Right Is Trying to Bring Down Public Sector Unions. It May Bring Much More Down With It.
(The Intercept, February 25, 2018)

Betsy DeVos Is Helping Puerto Rico Re-Imagine Its Public School System. That Has People Worried.
(The Intercept, February 22, 2018)

Draft Legislation Suggests Trump Administration Weighing Work Requirements And Rent Increases for Subsidized Housing
(The Intercept, February 1, 2018)

New York Times Applauds Donald Trump For A New Attempt At An Old Corporate Boondoggle
(The Intercept, January 30, 2018)

St. Paul Companies Are Spending Their Tax Breaks on Super Bowl Sponsorships. Teachers Are Crying Foul.
(The Intercept, January 26, 2018)

How Labor Is Thinking Ahead to a Post-Trump World
(The Intercept, January 21, 2018)

The Fight for the Suburbs
(The New Republic, January 17, 2018)

Public school buildings are falling apart, and students are suffering for it
(The Washington Post, January 8, 2018)

Different Regulations Govern D.C.’s Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs
(Washington City Paper, January 3, 2018)

Court Forces Ben Carson To Be a Civil Rights Champion For a Day
(The Intercept, January 2, 2018)

How a Gay Friendly and “Very Pro-Choice” Trump Created the most Anti-Choice, Anti-LGBT Administration
(The Intercept, December 26, 2017)

Spotlight on Sexual Misconduct Reopens Old Wounds at Marijuana Policy Project
(Washington City Paper, December 19, 2017)

Q&A: Getting Millennials Off That Treadmill
(The American Prospect, December 6, 2017)

Will America’s Schools Ever Be Desegregated?
(Pacific Standard, December 5, 2017)

The Grade Unknown: DC Charters Prize Their Autonomy. Does It Come At The Cost of Public Accountability?
(Washington City Paper, November 30, 2017)

The First Amendment Case That Could Upend Abortion Law
(The Intercept, November 27, 2017)

As the Education Department Strips Away Civil Rights Protections, New Coalition Aims to Fight for Students
(The Intercept, November 10, 2017)

Life Lessons From A Charter School Founder
(The New Republic, November 19, 2017)

Puerto Ricans Fear Schools Will Be Privatized In the Wake Of Hurricane Maria
(The Intercept, November 8, 2017)

Arkansas and Hawaii Lawsuits Present Challenges and Opportunities For Medication Abortion
(The American Prospect, November 3, 2017)

Steve Bannon Tried to Recruit Teachers Union to Trump’s Agenda While in White House
(The Intercept, November 1, 2017)

Late-Stage Abortion Provider Won’t Succumb To Protestors Who Forced Him Out of His Last Maryland Clinic
(The Intercept, October 30, 2017)

1,500 Affordable Housing Units Headed for Baltimore Could Multiply
(Next City, October 24, 2017)

Civil Rights Group Sue Ben Carson For Delaying Anti-Segregation Housing Reform
(The Intercept, October 23, 2017)

The Rift Among Charter Schools
(The American Prospect, October 20, 2017)

Desegregated, Differently
(The American Prospect, October 18, 2017)

Progressive Candidates Seek to Upend the Democratic Establishment in Upcoming Ohio Election
(The Intercept, October 5, 2017)

The New Fight For Labor Rights
(The New Republic, September 27, 2017)

Education Isn't the Key To a Good Income
(The Atlantic, September 26, 2017)

Reeling from a Murder Spike, Baltimore Grasps at a Gun Bill
(City Lab, September 22, 2017)

Authorities Close in on Pro-Charter School Nonprofit for Illicit Campaign Contributions
(The Intercept, September 19, 2017)

A Legal War in Arkansas Threatens Abortion Rights Everywhere
(VICE, September 7, 2017)

A Charter Union Case Heads to Federal Court
(The American Prospect, September 5, 2017)

Under Trump, Liberals Rediscover School Segregation
(The American Prospect, August 11, 2017)

How Chicago Could Beat Trump in Court
(VICE, August 9, 2017)

Videos of Baltimore Cops Allegedly Planting Evidence Tests Body Camera Programs
(The Intercept, August 5, 2017)

This Is the Wrong Way to Fight Inequality
(The New Republic, August 3, 2017)

Teacher Tests Test Teachers
(The American Prospect, July 18, 2017)

Where D.C. Has Failed on Adult Education, Charter Schools Fill the Void
(Washington City Paper, July 13, 2017)

Q&A: Drug Addiction Is a Learning Disorder
(The American Prospect, July 7, 2017)

Stable Homes
(Johns Hopkins magazine, July 2, 2017)

‘Parents Involved,’ A Decade Later
(The American Prospect, June 28, 2017)

School Suspensions, Test Scores, and Lead Poisoning
(The American Prospect, June 9, 2017)

Crooked Chicago Cops May Get Off the Hook Thanks to Trump
(VICE, June 8, 2017)

Illinois Poised To Strip Rahm Emanuel’s Control Over Chicago Schools
(The American Prospect, June 7, 2017)

Why “Pay for Success” Financing Could Cost Taxpayers More Than They Bargained For
(In These Times, May 30, 2017)

Massachusetts Charter School Backs Off Exclusionary Hair Policies — For Now
(The American Prospect, May 25, 2017)

Fixing Our Infrastructure? How About Schools?
(The American Prospect, May 23, 2017)

Bernie, the Billionaires, and the School Board
(The American Prospect, May 12, 2017)

Discrimination Is Not De Facto
(Slate, May 5, 2017)

New Jersey Teacher Tenure Lawsuit Dismissed
(The American Prospect, May 5, 2017)

The Untold History of Charter Schools
(Democracy Journal, April 27, 2017)

The Hopes and Fears Around Ben Carson’s Favorite Public Housing Program
(City Lab, April 21, 2017)

How D.C. Became the Darling of Education Reform
(The American Prospect, April 19, 2017)

Why D.C.’s First Charter Union Election Was Called Off
(The American Prospect, April 3, 2017)

Maryland Showdown on Testing, Charters, and the Direction of Public Schools
(The American Prospect, March 29, 2017)

How Schools Are Trying to Make Undocumented Kids and Their Parents Feel Safe
(VICE, March 22, 2017)

The Hour of the Attorneys General
(The American Prospect, March 22, 2017)

Chicago Teachers May Launch Nation’s Largest Charter School Union
(The American Prospect, March 7, 2017)

D.C. Charter Teachers Seek to Unionize
(The American Prospect, February 22, 2017)

Will Crumbling School Buildings Get a Piece of the Infrastructure Pie?
(The American Prospect, February 9, 2017)

DeVos Might Not Force Private School Vouchers on States — But She Could Promote Them
(The American Prospect, February 6, 2017)

Teachers Union Battle Escalates at KIPP Charter School
(The American Prospect, January 30, 2017)

Unlearning The Lessons of The Housing Crisis
(Curbed, January 19, 2017)

Betsy DeVos Alarms Special Education Advocates, Parents
(Curbed, January 18, 2017)

Baltimore Is Finally Doing Something About Its Notorious Police Force
(VICE, January 12, 2017)

Larry Hogan Can Be Beat
(The American Prospect, January 5, 2017)

Public Education Under Trump
(The American Prospect, January 4, 2017)

The Complicated History of America’s First ‘Union-Backed’ Charter Authorizer
(MinnPost, December 21, 2016)

How to Stop For-Profit Colleges
(The New Republic, December 21, 2016)

Ben Carson, the GOP, and Subsidized Housing
(The American Prospect, December 16, 2016)

Vouchers, Home Schooling, Virtual Education — Conservatives’ Wish List
(The American Prospect, December 6, 2016)

Redlining Map Project Provides New Way for Researchers to Rethink Struggling Urban Areas
(Johns Hopkins Magazine, December 4, 2016)