A few of my favorite stories …
Features:
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby (an excerpt from my new book)
I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality (the article that started it all)
The Rock Doc (featured on Longform)
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (featured on Longform)
Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
Investigations:
No Other Option — Across the country, medical boards allow abusive doctors to keep seeing patients. And patients addicted to opioids keep going back. (for the Texas Observer.)
America’s Most Powerful Medical-Debt Collector — investigation into civilian medical debt at military hospitals led to legislation being introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and a new provision about military hospitals included in the NDAA
The Obesity Cure Is Out of Reach in the Heaviest States — Bariatric surgery is the best treatment for obesity, but many states don’t cover the procedure in their state employee, Obamacare, or Medicaid plans.
What Americans Don’t Know About Their Medications — Why is side effect information so confusing?
Invisible Middlemen Are Slowing Down American Health Care — on the scourge of pharmacy benefit managers
Living Poor and Uninsured in a Red State — CJR: “If a prize were given for the best story about Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act to date in 2014, it would go to The Atlantic for Olga Khazan’s ‘Living Poor and Uninsured in a Red State.’”
Profiles:
This Influencer Says You Can’t Parent Too Gently
The New Face of Trumpism in Texas
Scoops/exclusives:
Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse
Don’t Get Your Pet Groomed, Groomers Say — when hair salons closed, Petco’s grooming salons stayed open
The Problem With ‘Uber for Therapy’ — a popular therapy app fired its counselors, then offered to hire them back as part-timers without benefits
Women in the U.S. Can Now Get Safe Abortions by Mail — citing poor access and a growing need, a global provider of mail-order abortion pills expanded to the U.S.
Fun stories that don’t fit in the above categories:
Forgetting and Remembering Your First Language
Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy
Stories for other publications:
You Can Be a Different Person After the Pandemic — New York Times
Charter school known for rigor comes to D.C. — Washington Post
The unexpected benefits of being weird — Vox
At-home birth has pros and cons — Los Angeles Times
Podcast episodes:
Personality Change on Mindlove
The ‘Rock Doc’ Who Prescribed 1.4 Million Pain Pills
Radio Atlantic: Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health