All the back stories and side stories to the feature articles I’m working on: anecdotes that don’t fit into the main piece, works cited, tangential lines of inquiry, and some self-critiquing
I’ve got an article in Yahoo’s special Cuba package this week on the country’s deeply paradoxical healthcare system, and I wanted to add some context and post some reference material, in case anyone’s interested. I went into this piece with what seemed like a very straightforward idea — to look at Cuba’s exclusion from the World Bank and … Continue reading On the Cuban Health Paradox and reporting from afar
1. When I was still in high school, my father lost his job. He was a third-generation garment worker — a cutter in a coat factory in Jersey City — and the company he worked for closed its U.S. facility and shipped all the work down to Mexico. In the wake of that turn, … Continue reading pulling back the curtain: notes on the history of neoliberalism…
Had this piece go up yesterday onYahoo Politics, in which I try to parse some of the complexity inherent in the much-discussed link between climate change and civil war (i.e. in Syria). My take-away is that yes, the link is there, but no it’s not as clear-cut as, say, Bernie Sanders would have you believe. One of … Continue reading The crooked line from drought to war
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