schuyler mitchell is a writer, editor, and researcher from north carolina

currently: columnist at truthout + researcher at business insider

previously: associate editor and reporter at the intercept, freelance fact-checker for the drift, capital & main, the fine print, and more

based in: brooklyn

find me: email, twitter, linkedin

selected reporting

environment

+ As Harris Rejects Fracking Ban, Will Anyone Listen to What Pennsylvanians Want? (truthout, 2024)

  • This piece was republished in Jacobin.

+ Vinyl Chloride Industry Keeps Expanding Despite East Palestine Disaster (the intercept, 2024)

+ US Finally Agrees to Back Limits on Plastic Production. Here’s Why That Matters. (truthout, 2024)

+ DNC Climate Panels Offered Empty Rhetoric Instead of Specific Plans (truthout, 2024)

+ The EPA Is Mandating Removal of Lead Pipes. What Will Replace Them? (truthout, 2024)

+ Garbage In, Toxics Out: They Promised “Advanced Recycling” for Plastics and Delivered Toxic Waste (the intercept, 2023)

+ The Myth of Safe Plastics Persists, Despite Risk of Disasters Like East Palestine (the intercept, 2023)

+ Unproven “Advanced Recycling” Facilities Have Received Millions in Public Subsidies (the intercept, 2023)

prisons, protests, policing

+ Hurricane-Struck North Carolina Prisoners Were Locked in Cells With Their Own Feces for Nearly a Week (the intercept, 2024)

+ In 2024 Platform, Democrats Lurch Right on Policing and Immigration (truthout, 2024)

+ North Carolina GOP Is Trying to Corner Prosecutors Into Charging Protesters (truthout, 2024)

+ Inside the Nationwide Campaign to Intimidate Students Protesting for Gaza (the intercept, 2023)

labor

+ Hit Hard by Hurricane Helene, Georgia’s Immigrant Farmworkers Struggle to Get Aid (truthout, 2024)

+ Ford’s Battery Flagship Socked by Mold Sickness, Workers Say (labor notes, 2024)

+ Amazon Union Effort in North Carolina Is Latest Attempt to Organize the South (truthout, 2024)

+ Unionized Rideshare Drivers Vow Future Strikes After Jamming Nashville Airport (truthout, 2024)

health

+ Universal Health Care Was Big on the 2020 Democratic Platform. Where Is It Now? (truthout, 2024)

+ Clinic Fire Deals Blow to Abortion Access on California-Arizona Border (the intercept, 2023)

+ Ticket to Ride: Ambulance Rides Still Aren’t Protected From Surprise Billing — and Subscriptions Do Little to Help (the intercept, 2022)

+ COVID Conditions Have Improved, but Staffers at This East L.A. Hospital Aren't Letting Down Their Guard (los angeles magazine, 2021)

trans rights

+ Pinkwashing the Timeline (the baffler, 2024)

+ Instead of Ignoring Trans Rights at DNC, Dems Should’ve Vowed to Protect Them (truthout, 2024)

+ The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care (the intercept, 2022)

technology

+ Meet the Military Contractor Running Fare Collection in New York Subways — and Around the World (the intercept, 2022)

culture

+ Froyomonium (dirt, 2024)

+ How Did L.A. Become a City Without Lesbian Bars? (los angeles magazine, 2020)

+ Roller Skating Isn't Having a 'Resurgence' (los angeles magazine, 2020)

+ Damon Albarn Takes to the Walt Disney Concert Hall Stage to Play Only US Solo Show of 2022 (consequence, 2022)