Long-form coverage of inequality where people actually meet it: renting an apartment, applying for a job, enrolling a child, dealing with police. Pieces combine statistics with individual case files and name the institutions responsible. Written for policy readers, community organizers and anyone tracking how social outcomes get produced.
Long-form coverage of inequality where people actually meet it: renting an apartment, applying for a job, enrolling a child, dealing with police. Pieces combine statistics with individual case files and name the institutions responsible. Written for policy readers, community organizers and anyone tracking how social outcomes get produced.
A filed eviction — even one a tenant won or that was dismissed — can block housing for years, and a wave of record-sealing laws is trying to break that cycle.
Aarya Kapoor · February 9, 2026
The 2020 census missed Black, Latino, and Native American residents at the highest rates in decades while overcounting white residents, and the bill arrives as funding and seats for a decade.
Aarya Kapoor · January 17, 2026