Recent Articles:
- After massive cuts at the Centers for Disease Control, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation efforts? Prism Reports, Oct. 27, 2025
- Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is deadly to already vulnerable groups across the U.S., Prism Reports, Sept. 29, 2025
- RFK Jr.’s Policies Are Inflaming the Threat of Covid, The New Republic, July 23, 2025
- The federal government is restricting COVID-19 vaccine access. Here’s what that means for the ongoing pandemic and people with Long COVID., The Sick Times, June 19, 2025
- Proposed federal Medicaid cuts will ‘devastate’ millions, Prism Reports, June 18, 2025
- An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA,, The New Republic, May 19, 2025
Other articles:
- New York proposal against wearing a mask during crimes stigmatizes masking and won’t stop antisemitism, Jewish and health advocates say, May 5, 2025
- Uncertainty looms for TV writers a year after historic strike, Dec. 9, 2024
- Advocates say the Harris campaign must do more to address long COVID, Nov. 4, 2024
- Experts and advocates criticize weakened COVID-19 guidance, March 25, 2024
- Almost 5 months in, organizers for a ceasefire and free Palestine aren’t backing down, Feb. 27, 2024
- While COVID-19 surges, California guts mitigation efforts in schools, Jan. 29, 2024
- Labor unions are making unprecedented calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, Jan. 22, 2024
- SAG-AFTRA’s new contract falls short on protections from Artificial Intelligence, Dec. 5, 2023
- TV writers win a new contract. Will actors be next?, Oct. 17, 2023
- The commercialization of the new COVID vaccine deepens health care inequities, Oct. 5, 2023
- The long Covid nightmare is far from over, especially for women of color, Sept. 21, 2023
- Nearly 100 days in, the WGA isn’t backing down, Aug. 8, 2023
- For disabled writers, the stakes of the WGA strike couldn’t be higher, May 25, 2023
The New Republic:
- How Telemedicine Benefits Became a Casualty of Congress’s Chaos, Dec. 23, 2024
- Ignoring Public Health May Have Cost Democrats the Election, Nov. 13, 2024
- Democrats Can’t Keep Ignoring Covid in 2024, Jan. 9, 2024
- Did the Actors’ Union Really Win?, Dec. 15, 2023
- Biden’s Proposal to Limit Online Prescribing Is a Raw Deal for the Most Vulnerable Patients, Mar. 9, 2023
- The New Omicron Booster and Flu Season Have Pushed Pharmacy Workers to Their Limit, Sept. 28, 2022
- Pharmacists and Patients Are Freaking Out Over New Medication Restrictions Post-Roe July 27, 2022
- After Roe’s Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions July 20, 2022
- Can Harm Reduction Work with Our Broken Health Care System? Dec. 17, 2021
- Who Gets Left Behind as We “Return to Normal”? July 1, 2021
- Biden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American Migrants, April 20, 2021
- Stop Comparing the Capitol Riot to Banana Republics. It’s Lazy—and Wrong. Jan. 11, 2021
- The Government’s Human Cruelty Will Outlive Trump, Nov. 25, 2020
- How America Exports Police Violence Around the World, June 25, 2020
- Will my Covid Symptoms Ever End? June 10, 2020
- Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Inflaming the Pandemic, May 14, 2020
- Is Biden Going to Repeat Obama’s Immigration Mistakes? May 12, 2020
- The Democrats’ Terrible Health Care Solution for the Newly Unemployed, April 16, 2020

- The Aid Paradox, April 1, 2019
- El Chapo and Mexico’s Drug War Spectacle, co-written with Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, March 4, 2019
- Re-Arming the Drug War in Mexico and Central America, co-authored with John Lindsay-Poland, NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 49, Issue 2
- Drugs Don’t Warrant a Bullet or a Disappearance, April 26, 2016
- Secure Borders Now, Protect People Later, February 19, 2016
- Read more on my NACLA author page

- No One Talks About Life After Deportation; These Mexican Activists Are Changing That, April 17, 2017
World Politics Review:
- In Nicaragua, Attacks on Journalists Are Part of Ortega’s Survival Strategy, October 10, 2019
- Deforestation Is Spiking Under Bolsonaro, With Environmental Costs Beyond Brazil, August 16, 2019
- U.S. Sanctions, and an Embargo, Will Only Worsen Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis, August 6, 2019
- Trump’s Threats Won’t Make Mexico and Guatemala Safe Third Countries, July 26, 2019
- Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Drive Ousted One President. Could it Take Down Another? September 7, 2017
- Last Hope or Last Stop? Mexico’s Growing Migrant Crisis, February 14, 2017
- See more on my WPR author page

- The Tangled Web of US Border Security Around the World, October 31, 2019

- How America is Exporting Gun Violence to Mexico, June 14, 2018
- A Cyclical Crisis: Why Trump’s Crackdown on Central American Migrants Will Only Mean More Violence, October 9, 2017
Other Publications
- Small Screen, Big Ideas: Substack, various posts, July 2021-
- What’s Going on in Venezuela, 101: An Explainer, Medium, May 5, 2019
- A Humanitarian Exodus, LatinoUSA (co-published by Jacobin and NACLA), October 23, 2018
- Central American Refugees Struggle For Protection In Southern Mexico, Lobelog (co-published with Foreign Policy in Focus and NACLA), September 16, 2016
- Central American Migration (radio), Latino Media Collective, September 23, 2016
- US Military Aid Supports Anti-Haitian Deportations in the Dominican Republic, TruthOut, June 25, 2015