United States
“Serious Harms” (The Baffler, 2025): New York’s mental health crisis at a crossroads.
“Trauma’s new look” (The Nation, 2025): Internal Family Systems is the latest therapy trend.
“BadRx” (The Baffler, 2025): The inner world of medication coupons.
“The Therapist in the Machine” (The Baffler & Internazionale, 2024): The rise of AI therapy bots.
“Masks off”: (The Baffler, 2024): The push to criminalize face coverings.
“Value Judgment” (The Baffler, 2024): The health care model setting its sights on Medicare.
“The Dubious Ethics of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” (The Nation, 2024): How morally correct can a business be?
“Diagnosis: Burnout” (The Baffler, 2024): Doctors on corporate interference and insurance burdens.
“Endo Days” (The Baffler, 2024): Are celebrity endometriosis surgeons boosting awareness or their own brand?
“How Covid Changed Nursing” (The Baffler, 2024): Health care workers reflect on four years of the pandemic.
“Unmade Beds” (The Baffler, 2023): New policies are being designed to push people towards inpatient psychiatric care.
“Fighting Back in Flatbush” (The Baffler, 2023): Taking on a notorious landlord in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood.
“We Decide Our Own Fate” (The Baffler, 2022): Two very different rallies for reproductive justice in New York.
“The Anti-Anti Depressant Syndicate” (The Baffler, 2021): The friends and foes of Big Anti Pharma.
“Do no harm” (The Baffler, 2020): The complex ethics of suicide contagion.
New Zealand
“The Making of a Mental Health Rockstar” (Webworm, 2024): Does Mike King’s popularity come with a big dose of impunity?
“Māori voices ‘missing’ from Mental Health and Addictions Inquiry” (Sunday Star-Times, 2019): A report on submissions to the mental health inquiry was rewritten, renamed and cut.
“Where do we put them?” (Sunday Star-Times & Stuff.co.nz, 2018): On the road with New Zealand’s mental health inquiry.
“Why New Zealand allows drink-drivers back on the road” (The Irish Times, 2019): Disqualified motorists are allowed to drive again legally using a special licence.
“Lessons from down under: How not to do BusConnects” (The Irish Times, 2018): A turbulent reform of the city’s bus routes
“DIY Doctors” (New Zealand Listener, 2017): Low standards are driving surgeons to break the rules.
“Trauma Layered Upon Trauma” (Mana magazine & The Spinoff, 2017): Māori youth suicide rates are among the highest in the world.
“Our Problem with P” (New Zealand Geographic, cover story, 2016): Fifteen years after meth use exploded in New Zealand.
“Super-rich kids: How the other half lives” (Sunday Star-Times, 2015): Under-cover in the Ya Ya Club.
“An Anarchist with a Death Wish” (Radio New Zealand, 2015): The story of an anarchist punk who blew himself up trying to destroy “New Zealand’s Big Brother”.
“Chris Knox: Not giving in lightly” (Sunday Star-Times, 2015): Chris Knox after his stroke.
“The Death of an Unsung Music Icon” (Sunday Star-Times, 2014): Musicians remember Peter Gutteridge, an architect of the Dunedin sound, better known abroad than at home.
Jess McAllen 