Dundon’s evocative photo essay, originally for EHRP/American Prospect/Puffin Foundation, captures a brave Los Angeles organizing against the constant threat of ICE in July 2025.

WOOD STREET follows residents of Oakland’s largest homeless encampment as they organize against eviction, centering unhoused ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and New York Review of Books. Up against the delirious scale of Operation Metro Surge, ordinary people juggle daily life with looking out for ...

This article was co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s ...

Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Current Affairs. Meditations on AI, the loss of public media, and resistance against ICE.

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, ...

Cassandra Butler, 43, starts her day at five in the morning, the only time when it’s quiet at her house in Puyallup, Washington. As she sips her first cup of coffee, she prepares for a long day ahead.

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 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 ...