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Selected Institute Articles



Human Trafficking & Modern-Day Slavery

Investigating Slavery Now & Then, January 2013, The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

Call it Trafficking, E.J. Graff, January 3, 2013, The American Prospect.

"The Fishing Industry's Cruelest Catch," E. Benjamin Skinner, February 20, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek.

"How U.S. Budget Cuts Prolong Global Slavery," June 28, 2011,  Time.com.

"Modern-Day Slavery: A Necessary Beat with Different Challenges," Winter 2010, Nieman Reports.

"Modern-Day Slavery on Washington's Embassy Row?" June 14, 2010, Time.com.

“The New Slave Trade,” January 18, 2010, Time.com.

“Pakistan’s Forgotten Plight: Modern-Day Slavery,” October 27, 2009, Time.com.

“The Fight to End Global Slavery,” Summer 2009, World Policy Journal.


Food Justice, Food Safety

UK 'Horseburger' Scandal: Did The Meat Originate In The US? Maryn McKenna, 1/16, Wired Science.

FERN/ABC Report Reveals Link Between Bladder Infections and Overuse of Antibiotics in Chicken, July 11, 2012, reporting by Maryn McKenna, Food & Environment Reporting Network.

Investigation: Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million Urinary Tract Infections (UTI),
Maryn McKenna, July 11, 2012, Wired Science.

Why Your Hamburger Hates America, Tracie McMillan, June 29, 2012, The Washington Post.

"The Dangerous Superbugs Hiding in Your Dinner," Maryn McKenna, June 2012, Self.

"Dining With Dioxin," Karen Coates, March 7, 2012, The Faster Times.

“The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table,” Tracie McMillan, February 21, 2012, Scribner. Read excerpts>

"Why Your Food Isn't Safe," Madeline Drexler, October 2011, Good Housekeeping. Learn more>


Health Justice

What You Don't Know About Episiotomies Can Hurt You, Jennifer Margulis, 1/27, Motherlode, the New York Times.

Fecal Transplants: A Clinical Trial Confirms How Well They Work, Maryn McKenna, 1/17, Wired Science.

A Government Takes Ag Antibiotics Seriously, But Not Our Government, Maryn McKenna, 1/15, Wired Science.

Almost-Untreatable Gonorrhea: Proof That It’s HereMaryn McKenna, 1/11, Wired Science.

Fracking's Health Calamities Left to Fester, Jan Goodwin, September 20, 2012, Truthout.

One Woman's Mission to Immunize Children Worldwide with the Polio Vaccine, Jan Goodwin, July 2012, Real Simple.

FERN/ABC Report Reveals Link Between Bladder Infections and Overuse of Antibiotics
in Chicken, July 11, 2012, Food & Environment Reporting Network, reported by Maryn McKenna.

Investigation: Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million Urinary Tract Infections (UTI),
Maryn McKenna, July 11, 2012, Wired Science Blogs/Superbug.

The Real Danger in America: Hospital Birth, Jennifer Margulis, July 10, 2012, BlogHer. 

Why Your Hamburger Hates America, Tracie McMillan, June 29, 2012, The Washington Post.


International Adoption Fraud & Corruption

Fatal Adoption, E.J. Graff, 2/22, Slate.com.

Call it Trafficking, E.J. Graff, January 3, 2013, The American Prospect.

"The U.S. Embassy Cables: Adoption Fraud in Guatemala, 1987-2010," Erin Siegal, February 1, 2012, Cathexis Press. Read excerpts>

"Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for the Truth," Erin Siegal, November 1, 2011, Cathexis Press.

"The Makeni Children," August 9, 2011, Slate.com.

"Orphaned or Stolen? The U.S. State Department investigates adoption, Nepal, 2006-2008," February 21, 2011, The Huffington Post.

"Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis," September 10, 2010, ForeignPolicy.com.

"Adopting new standards on adoption," September 10, 2010, "Comment is Free," Guardian.co.uk.

"The Baby Business," June 15, 2010, Democracy Journal.

"Preventing adoption disasters," April 17, 2010, The Boston Globe Op-Ed.

"The Seamier Side of International Adoption," May 10, 2009, The New York Times Opinion Blog.

"The Orphan Trade: A look at families affected by corrupt international adoptions," May 8, 2009, Slate.com.

"The Adoption Underworld," January 11, 2009, The Washington Post.

"The problem with saving the world's 'orphans'," December 11, 2008, The Boston Globe.

"The Lie We Love," Nov./Dec. 2008, Foreign Policy.


Criminal Justice

Prisoners Rule, James Verini, November 2012, Foreign Policy.

Abuse Case Raising Statute Questions, Hella Winston, February 28, 2012, The Jewish Week.

Fight Over Mondrowitz Documents Coming To A Head, Hella Winston, February 7, 2012, The Jewish Week.

In Lakewood Abuse cases, A 'Parallel Justice System, Hella Winston, December 6, 2011, The Jewish Week.

Failing the Test, Michael Blanding and Lindsay Markel, November 20, 2011, The Boston Globe Magazine.


Environmental Justice

Fracking's Health Calamities Left to Fester, Jan Goodwin, September 20, 2012, Truthout.

Dining With Dioxin, Karen Coates, March 7, 2012, The Faster Times.

The Flavor of Danger, Jerry Redfern and Karen Coates, Winter 2011, Gastronomica.

Digging deeper, Rebekah Cowell, July 6, 2011, IndyWeek.com.

Living on the edge, Rebekah Cowell, April 20, 2011, IndyWeek.com.

The waste land, Rebekah Cowell, February 16, 2011, IndyWeek.com.


Injustice in Political Asylum

"Broken Promises: Seeking Political Asylum in America,"  Jan Goodwin, April 2010, Ladies Home Journal.


Women Veterans' Healthcare

"The VA Health-Care System's Dishonorable Conduct," Jan Goodwin, March 2010, Good Housekeeping.


Sexual Harassment of Teenagers in the Workplace

"Is Your Daughter Safe at Work?," June 2007, Good Housekeeping.


Gender & Justice

"Do Women Count?," Spring 2008, Brandeis University Magazine.

"The Mommy War Machine," April 29, 2007, Sunday Washington Post Outlook section.

"The Opt-Out Myth," March/April 2007, Columbia Journalism Review.

"Striking Back," September 3, 2006, The Boston Globe.

"Fighting for Fair Treatment," April 27, 2006, The American Prospect Online.

"The Skinny Pink Paycheck Syndrome," February 12, 2006, Los Angeles Times.

"Too Pretty a Picture," November 25, 2005, The Washington Post.

"Mothers Prosecuted, Punished, For What They Didn't Do," May 26, 2005, USA Today.


Homelessness in Boston

"First Things First," June 24, 2007, The Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS.


Aircraft Safety

"Boeing Parts and Rules Bent, Whistle-Blowers Say," April 17, 2006, The Washington Post A1.     


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