Writing

For disabled writers, the stakes of the WGA strike couldn’t be higher, May 25, 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

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

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