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Eliza Amon is an award-winning writer, reporter and editor with more than 15 years of experience. She’s covered breaking news for online media outlets and long-form investigative reporting for monthly magazines on topics ranging from current political events, business and technology issues, and travel.
Child Welfare & Homeless Youth
A federal law enacted 43 years ago designed to protect Native American families from separation is now under threat like no time in recent history. Last month, the Indian Child Welfare Act, widely considered to be the "gold standard" of the field, was found to be constitutional by a federal appeals court.
Since early April, 16-year-old Espen James has spent most nights in Washington's foster care system being shuttled from a government office by day to hotels by night.Over one long night she never left a Prius, parked with its lights on in the lot outside the Department of Social and Health Services in Bellevue, with a social worker at her side.
Travel Stories
Famed for its artistic traditions in weaving, pottery and painted wooden animal carvings known as alebrijes, the Mexican city of Oaxaca is also brimming with contemporary art. Museums and galleries dot the central area, particularly north of the Zocalo, the central plaza, but Oaxaca also has a thriving street art scene.
"Ferries are for wimps," our guide Tim's t-shirt read. It was a motto befitting my tour groups' plan to spend a week swimming 5km a day between and alongside the Sporades, a cluster of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. I'd traveled to Greece with four friends, some of whom I'd known for more than...
Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump's immigration restrictions were temporarily shut down by a federal judge who said the states of Washington and Minnesota can sue claiming their economy and res...
The fight over whether Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize is part of a larger conflict.
The American Lawyer Magazine & National Law Journal
Other Publications
The 10-block stretch of Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue from Empire Boulevard to Parkside Avenue is a veritable mecca of beauty. There are multiple wig stores, with shelves of rainbow-colored styles and human hair sold by the ounce; hair salons and braiding shops; several beauty supply outlets; and at least one nail salon for every block.