Selected Writing

Longform Features: 

“We Might Have Long Covid All Wrong”: The New Republic

“The Strange, Isolated Life of a Tuberculosis Patient in the 21st Century”BuzzFeedNews

“How the West Was Wrong: the Mystery of Sacagawea”BuzzFeedNews

“How Insulin Became the Poster Child for Medicare for All”: New Republic 

“Why Has It Taken So Long for the Menstrual Cup to Go Mainstream?” : Pacific Standard

“The End of the AOC Honeymoon”: Jacobin Magazine

“How Medicare Was Won”: The Nation 

“How New York Beat its TB Epidemic”: The Daily Beast 

“Can Democrats Win the Former Conservative Bastion of Orange County?”: Splinter News 

“Katie Porter Came to Washington to Go to War with Wall Street”: Vice 

Other Work: 

“With Havana Syndrome, Washington Is Repeating Colin Powell’s Worst Mistake”: The New Republic

“Sirhan Sirhan’s Continued Imprisonment Flies in the Face of RFK’s Ideals”: The New Republic

“Bush Era Crack Panic Is Back, and It’s Going to Get People Killed”: The New Republic 

“Meet the Socialist Librarian Running for President of the American Library Association”: Jacobin Magazine

“The Revolution Will Be Cooked”: Splinter News

“Medical Bills Are Their Own Trauma”: The Nation

“You Can’t Police Your Way to Public Health”: The Nation

“The Politics of Going to the Bathroom”: The Nation

“The Democrats’ COBRA Proposal Is an Insurance Industry Bailout”: In These Times

“Brett Kavanaugh Hates Women”: Jacobin Magazine

“Model Consumers”: Jacobin Magazine

“Of Course Undocumented Immigrants Should Have Guaranteed Healthcare. NYC Is Making it a Reality”: In These Times

“Down with the Copay”: Jacobin Magazine 

“The Feminist Case for Single Payer”: Jacobin Magazine

“Out-of-Network Medical Bills Are a Problem. Healthcare Networks Are a Bigger One.”: Pacific Standard

“Can a New Generation of Med Students Help Push Medicare for All?”: Pacific Standard

“The Real Lesson from the Downfall of Theranos”: In These Times 

“Medicare for All Would Be Difficult to Implement. It Would Also Be Difficult to Dismantle”: Pacific Standard 

“Uber Health: Not for Drivers”: Konkret 

“Why Young Sexual Assault Victims Tell Incoherent Stories”: The Atlantic 

“Why Single-Payer Could Work in California”: Pacific Standard

“Pink October’s Predecessor”: Slate 

“The Real Problem with Playing Pokemon Go at the Holocaust Museum”: Pacific Standard 

“Toward an Effective Tuberculosis Vaccine”: The Atlantic 

“Who Invented the ‘Bedsheet Ghost?'”: The Daily Beast 

“Fox Is Airing a New Stand-Up Series – But They’re Not Paying the Comics”: Slate

“Parsing the Pro-Corporate Ethics of the Clinton Foundation”: Pacific Standard 

“How Leah Torres, OB-GYN, Battles Anti-Choice Misinformation on Twitter”: Bustle