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Writers

Eli Saslow

Sports

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.

Eli Saslow ESPN Nov 2014 10min Permalink

The Battle for 1042 Cutler Street

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

Health

The Most Remote Emergency Room: Life and Death in Rural America

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

Health

‘Out Here, It’s Just Me’

Doctors are disappearing from rural America.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Politics

Devastated by One Shutdown, Dreading the Next

As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”

Eli Saslow Washington Post Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Crime Politics

After Newtown Shooting, Mourning Parents Enter Into the Lonely Quiet

What happened next for the Barden family.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2013 25min Permalink

Politics Media

"Nothing on This Page Is Real"

How lies become truth in online America.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article

"Are You Alone Now?"

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Permalink

Crime

‘It Was My Job, and I Didn’t Find Him’

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

Politics

Gun Violence’s Distant Echo

After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.

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Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2018 20min Permalink

Crime

Against His Better Judgment

A federal judge resents the harshness of mandatory drug sentences.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Jun 2015 20min Permalink

Health

'What Kind of Childhood Is That?'

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.

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Eli Saslow Washington Post Dec 2016 15min Permalink

Crime

Seeking Custody and Answers

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

Best Article

The White Flight of Derek Black

He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.

Eli Saslow Washington Post Oct 2016 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

For Diamond Reynolds, Trying to Move Past 10 Tragic Minutes of Video

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

Best Article

‘How’s Amanda?’

A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction.

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Eli Saslow Washington Post Jul 2016 Permalink

Business

From Belief to Outrage: The Decline of the Middle Class Reaches the Next American Town

“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”

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Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast

Eli Saslow Washington Post May 2016 15min Permalink

Health

'A Premature and Unnatural Death' in Rural Oklahoma

White women between 25 and 55 have been dying at accelerating rates over the past decade. Anna Marrie Jones was one.

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Previously: What’s Killing Poor White Women?

Eli Saslow Washington Post Apr 2016 15min Permalink

A Survivor's Life

Her 4th day of college was a mass shooting. Here is what life is like afterward.

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Eli Saslow The Washington Post Dec 2015 Permalink

Sports

“Why Him, Why Me?”

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

"You're One of Us Now"

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

Crime Sports

Adrian Peterson's Suspended Reality

The running back’s life since he was indicted on charges of beating his son and suspended from the NFL.

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Previously: Eli Saslow on the Longform Podcast

Eli Saslow ESPN Aug 2015 15min Permalink

Town Waiting for an Eruption Found It After Firing Its First Black Police Officer

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

Sports

The Man in the Van

Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Politics

The Public Life and Private Doubts of Al Sharpton

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

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