Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and MLK50. An illustrated explainer of the toll xAI and other toxic ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The New Republic. Just a few months ago, AI was an interesting ...

This story is published in partnership with The Guardian and Bridge Detroit. Miraculously, Tomeka Langford is willing to talk to me. The 47-year-old Black woman is a long-standing Detroiter. A career ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. TO EXPRESS THE AMBIENT FEELING that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Teen Vogue and Lux Magazine. A few years ago, Sunnie Helling decided to get serious about sobriety. She moved into the Union Gospel Mission, a ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Christian Century. The 5 p.m. mass on a recent sunday found Isela Castro selling beef nachos at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Jesuit parish in San ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Everything Is Political, and Slow Factory. For generations, the American West has served as one of the nation’s most enduring metaphors, a ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Rebecca Renard-Wilson has stopped shopping at Target and all things Amazon including Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. These days, the ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Inside the factory-like environment of a fast-food kitchen, sodas should be the easiest menu item to serve. At my restaurant, a pair of ...

Every Friday at around 6 p.m., farmers in Greensboro, Vermont, descend on Tom Hill’s barn to help out with the Friday evening milking session. As udders are emptied and beers popped open, they catch ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Civil Eats. On a late afternoon in early November, Xochitl Bervera launches The Roxie Girl from St. George Island into the gentle waters of ...