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Kristen Martin

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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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