Michelle García

ABOUT

PUBLISHED WORK

PUBLISHED WORK

Essays, Reports, and Opinion Pieces

Uvalde and the Border Security Scam

07 JUN 2022

Palabra | URL Media | Texas Observer

Why Texas Authorities Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Themselves

31 MAY 2022

Daily Beast

“People Like Us Are Capable of Representing US”

01 MAR 2022

Mother Jones

Security Theater: U.S. Border Authorities Failed to Prepare for Influx of Haitian Migrants Despite Weeks of Warnings

The Intercept

01 OCT 2021

Texas is Trying to Contain Latinas

25 SEP 2021

Women’s Media Center | IDAR/E

Election: 2020 Great Latinxpectations

03 J DEC 2020

The Baffler

Election 2020: Belonging, Legacy, Latinos

04 NOV 2020

Latinos and the Morality of American Politics

25 FEB 2020

Palabra

Climate Apartheid and a Media Worldview

17 JUN 2020

The Nation

* Winner of Covering Climate Now Journalism Award

In the Midst of a Border Crisis

13 FEB 2020

Bon Appétit

Hand of Terror

FALL 2019

Adi Magazine

In Texas, a call to action against white supremacy

07 SEP 2019

CNN

The Border Wall is not just a dividing line - it's a monument against racial progress

25 APR 2019

The Guardian

In Border Deal, Democrats Gave Away Too Much

12 FEB 2019

CNN

The Year of the Heavy Moon: Seeking joy in a time of despair

25 APR 2017

Oxford American

An Identity Politics Where 'Victims' Vanquish Others

23 NOV 2016

The New York Times

Trumpworld

21 OCT 2016

Guernica

My Name is Alex

23 NOV 2015

Oxford American

The War of Forgetting

01 May 2015

Guernica Magazine

Melissa Murray, A Depth Equal to Height, 2013. Mixed media, 60 x 40 in. Courtesy of the artist

Greater State, Monthly Column

2014-2015

Texas Observer

Columns for U.S. Project

2014

Columbia Journalism Review

Myths of Mexico

2009

Columbia Journalism Review

On the Texas Borderline, A Solid, if Invisible, Wall

24 MAY 2008

The Washington Post