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Living Under the Law of Border Security
Border security or border enforcement often brings to mind images of green and white-painted Border Patrol SUVs roaming across that contentious line between the United States and Mexico. But across...
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The “Sinaloa Cartel”| the myth, the U.S. government’s case and the documents
InSight Crime, the must read for anyone following organized crime in the Americas, recently published my analysis of government documents submitted in the conspiracy and drug trafficking case against...
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Mexican Jihad the making of a “drug war” through images | Dart Center for...
Of all the stories I have ever worked on, Mexican Jihad has had the wildest ride. Originally commissioned for a publication that was suddenly eliminated, as tends to happen in our “media environment,”...
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A Sidewalk Portal in Mexico City
Earlier in the year I visited the Mercado Jamaica in Mexico City, an all hours, year round flower market where I met a graffiti crew working on an enormous mural. But this mural not only captures...
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Massacre and Government Search Operation Reveals Network Behind the ‘Z’
In early 2014, the Mexican government–state and federal– launched an operation to search for human remains in the northern state of Coahuila. The search was meant to investigate a massacre, perhaps...
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Hour of Darkness |Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
In the early part of last year I read Alfredo Corchado’s new memoir “Midnight in Mexico” and it soon became a topic of conversation while I traveled through Tijuana, in Texas and in New York City. The...
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Children at the Border | Analysis
Over the summer I covered the Texas press for the Columbia Journalism Review’s U.S. Project. In early June the increasing number of unaccompanied children arriving on the border from Central America...
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The Future of the Border/ The Texas Observer’s 60th Anniversary Issue
The border is not just a place, it’s an idea– so begins my piece in the The Texas Observer’s 60th Anniversary Issue. The thought flashed across my mind as I traveled from ciudad Juárez into el...
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What Americans Did To Yoga/The Atlantic’s Quartz
A journey into Yoga Culture. True, it’s not the typical fare offered on my site but, as you will see, it takes on some of my favored issues: race, identity, symbols, and the construction of culture....
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Greater State column | Ferguson in Texas
Ferguson in Texas: Peace vs Quiet Ours was a summer punctuated by upheaval. On Aug. 9, gunshots were heard in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer fired multiple times at Michael Brown, a...
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Greater State column| Hunting Humans
‘Hunting Humans’ Brings the Fringe to the Center The far ends of our colorful political spectrum rarely cause me much worry. I trust the armed militias reportedly roaming the U.S.-Mexico border and...
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Introducing a Greater State | a new column for The Texas Observer
No one ever really leaves Texas, not really. I think the same can be said about New York City, another place that has come to define me. New York is a place I traveled to, found myself in and learned...
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Searching for La Perdida |Oxford American magazine
This one was special. It was a story in which living it was as necessary as writing it. Searching for La Perdida appeared in the Oxford American’s Texas Music issue. The piece is about finding home...
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The War of Forgetting | Guernica Magazine
On May 1, Guernica magazine published my piece, The War of Forgetting, in honor of Eduardo Galeano who passed away a few weeks earlier. Vela Magazine later selected the piece for as part of its Women...
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Greater State column | Ferguson in Texas
Ferguson in Texas: Peace vs Quiet Ours was a summer punctuated by upheaval. On Aug. 9, gunshots were heard in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer fired multiple times at Michael Brown, a...
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Greater State column| Hunting Humans
‘Hunting Humans’ Brings the Fringe to the Center The far ends of our colorful political spectrum rarely cause me much worry. I trust the armed militias reportedly roaming the U.S.-Mexico border and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing a Greater State | a new column for The Texas Observer
No one ever really leaves Texas, not really. I think the same can be said about New York City, another place that has come to define me. New York is a place I traveled to, found myself in and learned...
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Searching for La Perdida |Oxford American magazine
This one was special. It was a story in which living it was as necessary as writing it. Searching for La Perdida appeared in the Oxford American’s Texas Music issue. The piece is about finding home by...
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The War of Forgetting | Guernica Magazine
On May 1, Guernica magazine published my piece, The War of Forgetting, in honor of Eduardo Galeano who passed away a few weeks earlier. Vela Magazine later selected the piece for as part of its Women...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greater State column | Ferguson in Texas
Ferguson in Texas: Peace vs Quiet Ours was a summer punctuated by upheaval. On Aug. 9, gunshots were heard in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer fired multiple times at Michael Brown, a...
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