The Long Way Home
How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.
How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.
Eli Saslow ESPN Nov 2014 10min Permalink
As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.
Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2021 15min Permalink
On the rise of telemedicine in rural America, where the number of ER patients has surged by 60 percent in the past decade as the number of doctors and hospitals has declined by up to 15 percent.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink
Doctors are disappearing from rural America.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink
As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”
Eli Saslow Washington Post Feb 2019 20min Permalink
What happened next for the Barden family.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink
How lies become truth in online America.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2018 15min Permalink
Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.
Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2018 20min Permalink
After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.
Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2018 20min Permalink
A federal judge resents the harshness of mandatory drug sentences.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2015 20min Permalink
Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Dec 2016 15min Permalink
When a husband and wife killed 14 at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, they also orphaned their 6-month-old daughter. This is her life — and the life of the aunt and uncle who want to adopt her — a year later.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2016 Permalink
He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Oct 2016 25min Permalink
She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2016 15min Permalink
A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Jul 2016 Permalink
“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”
Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2016 15min Permalink
White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Her 4th day of college was a mass shooting. Here is what life is like afterward.
Eli Saslow The Washington Post Dec 2015 Permalink
The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.
Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink
A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Aug 2015 Permalink
The running back’s life since he was indicted on charges of beating his son and suspended from the NFL.
Eli Saslow ESPN Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Gerry Pickens took a paycut to join the police department in tiny, overwhelmingly white Orting, Washington. Fired less than a year later, he’s now suing the town for enough to break it.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2015 20min Permalink
Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Al Sharpton wanted to be a civil rights leader in the mold of Martin Luther King, Jr. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Feb 2015 Permalink