An urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.

An excerpt of my book Burdened, published in Harper’s Readings.

In 2023, I reported on the Supreme Court’s hearing of a Biden administration student-debt cancellation plan.

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream.

Why is the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program failing the people it’s supposed to help?

“Boise is in a valley north of the Snake River, stretching west from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, which lumber up on the edges of the city, to the eastern border of Oregon.”