journalism
Apr. 2023 | "Bootstrapped by Alissa Quart: How the U.S. Shames and Blames People for Poverty," Teen Vogue
Apr. 2023 | "A national bullying of the poor: the trouble with America’s bootstrapping myth," The Guardian
Mar. 2023 | "The lie of the hustle," Fast Company
Mar. 2023 | "Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance," Literary Hub
Mar. 2023 | "How ditching America’s ‘bootstraps’ myth can open up politics," The Washington Post
Mar. 2023 | "How the Horatio Alger Lie Helped Shape the Myth of American Upward Mobility," Rolling Stone
Mar. 2023 | "Bootstrapping Has Always Been A Myth. The New American Dream Proves It," TIME
Mar. 2023 | "Can We Put an End to America’s Most Dangerous Myth?," The New York Times
Sep. 2022 | "Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich, Acid Wit and Workers' Champion," TIME
Jul. 2022 | "Against ‘poor’ reporting," Columbia Journalism Review
Jun. 2022 | "Traumatic pregnancies are awful. Dobbs will make that so much worse," The Washington Post
Apr. 2022 | "Let’s make journalism work for those not born into an elite class," Columbia Journalism Review
Apr. 2022 | "Covid cut the red tape for welfare benefits. Let’s keep it that way," The Washington Post
Mar. 2022 | "The Poetry of Labor: On Rodrigo Toscano and the Art of Work," Literary Hub
Dec. 2021 | "The Trouble with Experts," Columbia Journalism Review
Oct. 2021 | "Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now," The New York Review of Books
Sep. 2021 | "Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power," Mother Jones and Nonprofit Quarterly
Feb. 2021 | "Really Giving: Four Ways to Democratize Philanthropy," Inside Philanthropy
Jan. 2021 | "Michael Apted Took the Very Long View," The New Republic
Oct. 2020 | "Day-care slots for babies are vanishing. Now their parents can’t work," The Washington Post
Sep. 2020 | "The Pandemic Is the Perfect Time for a Parents Revolution," Slate
Jul. 2020 | "How we can truly repay our frontline health workers: clear their debts," The Guardian
Jul. 2020 | "Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald," Literary Hub
Jun. 2020 | "The journalism emergency, and how to pay for it," Columbia Journalism Review
Apr. 2020 | "Who Has Enough Cash to Get Through the Coronavirus Crisis?," The New York Times
Mar. 2020 | "Gig Economy Workers Are Our Newest First Responders," Slate
Nov. 2019 | "Rethinking ‘resilience’ and ‘grit’," The Boston Globe
Oct. 2019 | "Elizabeth Warren Has a Poet on Her Team. Here’s Why That’s a Good Idea," The New York Times
Sep. 2019 | "David Berman of Silver Jews Remembered," The New York Review of Books
Apr. 2019 | "The Con of the Side Hustle," The New York Times
Mar. 2019 | "A bigger scandal at colleges — underpaid professors," The Boston Globe
Jan. 2019 | "‘Middle class’ once meant stability and now means fragility," The San Francisco Chronicle
Oct. 2018 | "Hysterical surrealism? A pop culture for our age of economic insecurity," The Guardian
Jul. 2018 | "Sisters in Arms," The New York Review of Books
Jun. 2018 | "On social media, everyone’s rich and famous," The Globe and Mail
Jun. 2018 | "The Snake Oil of the Second-Act Industry," The New York Times
Jun. 2018 | "The Motherhood Advantage," Slate
Jun. 2018 | "For the struggling middle class, Alissa Quart has a message: you're not alone," The Guardian
Jun. 2018 | "On social media, everyone’s rich and famous," The Globe and Mail
Jun. 2018 | "There's a reason why you can't afford to live in America," The Guardian
Feb. 2018 | "If Americans don't like the word 'inequality,' would 'fairness' be better?," The Guardian
Jan. 2018 | "The Shadow Safety Net," The New York Times
Oct. 2017 | "Meet the new class traitors who are coming out as rich," The Guardian
Jul. 2017 | "'Lunch shaming' and other humiliations: how can we teach our kids about class?," The Guardian
Dec. 2014 | "Hypereducated and on Welfare," Elle Magazine
Nov. 2014 | "The Rise of Extreme Daycare," Pacific Standard
Oct. 2014 | "Manhood: How Ethan Hawke Finally Grew Up," New York Magazine
Jun. 2014 | "Abortion and Birth, Together," The New York Times
Oct. 2013 | "Lou Reed Made Generation X," The Atlantic
Aug. 2013 | "I mother with my brain, not just my body," Salon
Aug. 2013 | "Occupy Bank Cards!," The Nation
Aug. 2013 | "Saving animals from factory farms: Fake meat’s increasingly real future," Salon
Aug. 2013 | "A Saner Approach? New Ways of Treating Mental Illness," O, the Oprah Magazine
Aug. 2013 | "Crushed by the Cost of Child Care," The New York Times
Jun. 2013 | "The Body Data Craze," Newsweek
May 2013 | "When Geeks Attack," Marie Claire
May 2013 | "Adventures in Neurohumanities," The Nation
Apr. 2013 | "The red-state attack on abortion rights," Reuters
Mar. 2013 | "How liberal Hollywood fell in love with the CIA," Reuters
Jan. 2013 | "Will Mississippi Close Its Last Abortion Clinic?," The Atlantic
Jan. 2013 | "The Thinking Person’s Entertainment," The New York Times
Jan. 2013 | "I Am a Feminist Because Jesus Made Me One," New York Magazine
Dec. 2012 | "Why Zero Dark Thirty divides the media in half," Reuters
Nov. 2012 | "Neuroscience: Under Attack," The New York Times
Oct. 2012 | "Why Women Hide Their Pregnancies," The New York Times
Oct. 2012 | "The Age of Hipster Sexism," New York Magazine
Jul. 2012 | "The Milk Wars," The New York Times
Jan. 2012 | "A Beautiful Mind," Marie Claire
Jun. 2010 | "The Trouble With Experts," Columbia Journalism Review
Apr. 2010 | "Alissa Quart Dishes On The Moment She Knew She Was A Feminist," excerpted from Click: Young Women On The Moments They Knew They Were Feminists
Mar. 2009 | "The Sarcastic Times," Columbia Journalism Review
Nov. 2008 | "Music Lessons," Columbia Journalism Review
Jul. 2008 | "Flickring Out," Columbia Journalism Review
May 2008 | "Lost Media, Found Media," Columbia Journalism Review
Mar. 2008 | "When Girls Will Be Boys," The New York Times Magazine
Oct. 2007 | "Billboards by Any Other Name," The New York Times
Jun. 2007 | "The Child Soldiers of Staten Island," Mother Jones
Jan. 2007 | "For Love or Money," Mother Jones
Oct. 2006 | "Girls and Boys, Interrupted," The New York Times
Jul. 2006 | "Extreme Parenting," The Atlantic
Feb. 2006 | "Guided by (Many, Many) Voices," The New York Times Magazine
Jul. 2005 | "Networked: Dysfunctional families, reproductive acts, and multitasking minds make for Happy Endings," Film Comment
Jul. 2004 | "Our Bodies, Our Selves: The Stepford Wives," Film Comment
Jul. 2003 | "Welcome to (Company Name Here) High(TM)," The New York Times
SELECTED Reviews
Mar. 2020 | "An American tradition: Shaming the poor" a review of Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall and Tightrope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, The Washington Post
Jan. 2020 | "Eliminating Child Poverty With a Government Check" a review of The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick
Jan. 2018 | "Lauren Greeenfield's Gilt Edge" a review of the photography of Lauren Greenfield, The New York Review of Books
Apr. 2014 | "Status Update" a review of It’s Complicated by danah boyd, The New York Times Book Review
Dec. 2009 | "Dangerous Beauty" a review of Fire by Kristin Cashore, The New York Times Book Review
Oct. 2007 | "Brut Force" a review of The Colorful Apocalypse by Greg Bottoms, Bookforum
Apr. 2007 | "God Save the Teen" a review of Teenage by Jon Savage, Bookforum
May 2005 | "They Don't Feel Your Pain" a review of One Nation Under Therapy by Sommers and Satel, The New York Times Book Review
Oct. 2004 | "Child Rearing: The Parent Trap" a review of Home Alone: America by Mary Eberstadt, The New York Times Book Review