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President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with Administration members and foster-care advocates at a signing ceremony for the “Fostering the Future” executive order, on November 13th.Photograph by Anna Moneymaker / Getty

For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

Putting religious rights of foster parents above civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.

by Kristen Martin via The New Yorker on November 23, 2025

A young boy peers out from a hole in a fence as his friends play basketball in a court where police officers are gathering for a patrol.

How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.

by Kristen Martin via The Nation on March 20, 2025

Overhead view of people walking around in the Mall of America

The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere

A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.

by Kristen Martin via The Atlantic on June 21, 2022

Unaccompanied children in a train station

Novel Transport

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.

by Kristen Martin via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 1, 2021

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