Stories by Dan Frosch
Dan Frosch is a New York-based journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Source and the Santa Fe Reporter.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is leading the charge to deny assistance to the families who need it the most.
Posted on Jun 6, 2005
Wolff Marsan sold a $20 bag of coke to an undercover cop. He was deported, jailed and tortured in Haiti, escaped, and now faces deportation a second time. His story illustrates the arbitrary cruelty of the immigrant deportation process.
Posted on May 5, 2005
While much is made of the Minutemen patrolling the Mexico-U.S. border, lawsuits pile up against an Arizona rancher with a troubling history.
Posted on Apr 12, 2005
A young steel worker dies and an industry grapples with a disturbing rise in fatalities on the job.
Posted on Mar 22, 2005
Some Republicans in Arizona want to take all Mexican nationals in state prisons and build a new prison for them in Mexico.
Posted on Feb 24, 2005
Today, medical-related debt is the second leading cause of personal bankruptcies – and the middle class is suffering the most.
Posted on Feb 9, 2005
Pharmacies and drug companies have come up with a novel way to make more money: use our medical records to pitch us more drugs.
Posted on Nov 16, 2004
While a Navajo town deals with the ravages of the latest addictive drug, crystal meth, tribal elders fight back by reinforcing Navaho culture.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004
Cleveland can thank Election Protection volunteers for the relative calm at its voting precincts.
Posted on Nov 3, 2004
The veteran groups protesting in New York City may not all support John Kerry, but they are united in their opposition to the Bush administration's policies.
Posted on Aug 31, 2004
Sunday's protesters in Manhattan went shoulder-to-shoulder in a free-speech free for all.
Posted on Aug 29, 2004
Prison-reform groups are working to educate former felons on their voting rights.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004
Prison reform groups along with voting rights organizations are working in unprecedented numbers across the country to register ex-felons for 2004.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004
In New Mexico, many of America's most pressing problems are played out in dramatic fashion every day – from poverty to health care to education and the environment.
Posted on Jul 16, 2004
Did the Justice Department intentionally contract the roughest, toughest prison officials – regardless of their histories – to reform Iraqi jails?
Posted on May 24, 2004
Why did the Justice Department send a man whose prisons had been plagued by reports of inmate mistreatment for nearly a decade to Abu Ghraib?
Posted on May 13, 2004
While the gun lobby has traditionally been assumed a Republican sure-thing at the polls, both John Kerry and George Bush have begun an awkward political duel over the gun issue with varying degrees of success.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004
When Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia announced that he was applying for conscientious objector status, the idea of pacifism entered the debate over the war in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 24, 2004
John Ashcroft, in the hospital with pancreatitis, is undoubtedly receiving the best of care. But if he were one of the 41 million Americans without insurance, his experience would be vastly different.
Posted on Mar 14, 2004