A Year in the Juvenile Justice System, The New York Times, January 24, 2023.
America Could Soon Face a Wave of Single Moms Being Evicted, Time, May 28, 2021.
Unexpectedly Pregnant, A Memoirist Finds Her Choices Limited, The New York Times, November 10, 2020.
Lost In the System, New York Magazine / The Cut, July 30, 2020.
New York City’s Block-To-Block Inequality Is As Stark As Ever, Literary Hub, June 24, 2020.
A New Mother’s Search for Home, The New York Times, April 30, 2020.
No Shelter, The Paris Review, April 30, 2020.
COVID-19's Body Count Will Go Beyond Those Who Die From the Disease. It Didn't Have to Be This Way, Time, April 28, 2020.
How the CARES Act Hurts Low-Wage Workers, Dame, April 2, 2020.
Will Students Sleep on the Streets? The Hill, March 17, 2020.
I Wanted Joan Didion’s Heart to be Messy. Dame, February 25, 2020.
White Women Need to Check Their Privilege After the Women’s March. Time, January 25, 2017.
We Have Allowed Ourselves to Become Blind to the Crisis of Homelessness. The Guardian, June 4, 2015.
Paid Leave Takes a Place on Hillary Clinton’s Platform. The New Republic, April 14, 2015.
Another Reason to Join the Fight for Equal Pay. Self, April 2015.
My Lover, The Camera. A profile of Liv Ullman. Elle, November 2014.
Strutting and Fretting Offstage. New York Times, October 29, 2014.
How to Love Paid Family Leave. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 17, 2014.
This Father’s Day, get him what he really wants: paid paternity leave. Reuters, June 13. 2014.
Crossing a Divide, Seeking Good. New York Times, February 21, 2014.
Chinese parents can now have more than one child. Why many say they won’t. Washington Post, January 10, 2014.
Will Chelsea Clinton Run for the White House One Day? The Guardian/Observer, April 20, 2014.
An Only Child, Happy With an Only Child. The New York Times, June 12, 2013.
Why One Child Is Enough for Me—And Might be for You. Slate, June 12, 2013.
The Economic Reason for Having Just One Child. Time, June 11, 2013.
Only Children: Lonely and Selfish? The New York Times, June 8, 2013.
The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and Mother: Have Only One Child. (I’ve written none of these headlines--this one rankles most of any in my twenty years of publishing.) The Atlantic, June 7, 2013.
Why Women in Hollywood Can't Get Film Financing. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 21, 2013.
Zero Dark Thirty and the Problem With Lone Wolf Heroines. New York, December 18, 2012.
No Sex, Please — We’re Domestic Goddesses. New York, December 5, 2012.
Tell Me a State’s Fertility Rate, I’ll Tell You How It Voted. New York, November 19, 2012.
Women Govern Differently Than Men (They’re Better). New York, November 5, 2012.
Naomi Wolf Sparks Another Debate (On Sex, of Course). The New York Times, September 19, 2012.
The Mother Majority. Slate, October 17, 2011.
Cohabitation is Only a Problem because it’s Not Normal Yet. Slate, April 17, 2011.
The American Nightmare. Psychology Today, March, 2011.
The Mother of All Office Dramas. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 17, 2010.
Code Pink. Mother Jones, September 2009.
The Atheist Recruiting Machine. The Daily Beast, November 3, 2009.
Lost Faith in the GOP. Salon, November 10, 2006.
After the Fall. Salon, November 7, 2006.
Equality Before God. Salon, November 3, 2006.
Dude, Where's My Cross? Salon, October 9, 2006.
The Thieves of Baghdad. The Atlantic, November 2004.
An American and Her Nine Iraqi Sisters. The New York Times, October 17, 2004.
When Love is a Crime. The New York Times, October 4, 2004.
A Movie Beauty’s Got to Look Beastly. The Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2004
Far from the Hamra Hotel. The Village Voice, June 1, 2004.
Veiled and Worried in Baghdad. The New York Times, September 16, 2003.
Holy Rock ’n’ Rollers. The Nation, July/August 2003.
Society Page. The New Republic, September 23, 2002.
Hearts Broken, Hands Full. Salon, December 6, 2001.
The Trauma to Come. Salon, October 4, 2001.
Now More than Ever. Salon, September 14, 2001.
Throbbing Hearts and Thumping Bibles. Salon, July 12, 2001.
God Save the Teens. The Village Voice, May 29, 2001.
*Hey, magazines: please digitize your feature archives! I'd love to share my very favorite pieces. Thanks.