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Washing Away
See the full report at PBS NewsHour Home for generations to small bands of the Houma and Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribes in coastal Louisiana, this island is among the most vulnerable place in America...
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A Cooler Chicago
See the full report on PBS NewsHour Chicago is preparing for a warmer future and how cities overall are particularly susceptible to trapping heat as temperatures rise. According to a climate assessment...
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Two Texas Towns Out of Water
Mark Twain said that ‘Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting’ - that adage is becoming increasingly true in Texas as demand continues to outweigh supply and scrambles for water intensify....
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Ahlan Wa Sahlan
Lebanon is a complex place. These are just little windows into Lebanese living that I’ve uncovered during my time here so far, partially as a reporter and partially just as an expat exploring the...
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Thousands Displaced as Violence Escalates in Ivory Coast
In Ivory Coast, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled their homes or escaped to neighboring countries as post-election fighting in the West African nation threatens to escalate into civil war,...
View ArticleWhat happens when Photoshop goes too far?
This story aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on July 26, 2015. A New York exhibit chronicles prominent cases of images altered by journalists and asks: If seeing is believing, how often are you, the viewer...
View ArticleWhy is New York City cracking down on Airbnb?
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on August 1, 2015. Short-term housing rental industry giant Airbnb now lists more than 1 million rooms available in 192 countries. The platform’s largest...
View ArticleThe opioid epidemic’s toll on pregnant women and their babies
The risk for overdose from opioid painkillers and heroin among women, including pregnant women, has skyrocketed, which means a growing number of babies are born dependent on opioids. NewsHour Weekend...
View ArticleRethinking wages for tipped workers
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on March 26, 2016. Due to low federal minimum wages for tipped workers, many grapple with poverty rates. Seven states, however, pay tipped workers full minimum...
View ArticleAs opioid epidemic worsens, rethinking how doctors are taught to treat pain
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on April 17, 2016. Pain is the most common reason that people go to the doctor. Yet physicians and medical students have limited training in pain management...
View ArticleWhy thousands of students are seeing Broadway smash ‘Hamilton’
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on May 8, 2016 This spring, 20,000 public high school students from low-income neighborhoods in New York City will get the opportunity to see “Hamilton,” the...
View ArticleForeign-born workers in the UK share their fears for the future
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on June 26, 2016. Uncertainty prevails in Britain after Brexit has left immigrants feeling vulnerable. The service sector, a large part of the British...
View ArticleHow Democrats have changed since the Bill Clinton years
This report aired on PBS NewsHour on July 24, 2016. This week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will have a “back to the future” feel as another Clinton readies to become a presidential...
View ArticleNative community in Louisiana relocates as land washes away
This report aired on PBS NewsHour Weekend on July 30, 2016. Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana has lost 98 percent of its land to coastal erosion caused by sinking land and exacerbated by rising seas...
View ArticleCan this project clean up millions of tons of ocean plastic?
About 9 million tons of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans every year — enough to fill a football stadium 23 miles high. But a project dubbed the Ocean Cleanup aims to eliminate it with a...
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