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How to Wash Your Hands in a War Zone

By Gillian Esquivia-Cohen

Stitching and Writing on the Margin

By Roslyn Bernstein

The Requirement of Adequacy

Fiction by Emily Franklin

Maurice Chammah: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By Ann Neumann

Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is a writer based in Northern California focusing on issues related to youth, migration, and the environment. Her work has appeared in outlets such as VQR, VICE Magazine, Orion, Pacific Standard, and on This American Life. She works at a high school for immigrant youth and is currently at work on a book about child migration from El Salvador.
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Death of a Valley

By Lauren Markham October 15, 2015

In 1953, California sacrificed a town to stave its own thirst. But the act was futile, and the state is thirstier than ever.

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