Roberto Ferdman
Rural America is running out of teachers
What happens when you set a bunch of teachers up on a date with a town that needs them?
Border Patrol moved migrants from a pen under a bridge to overcrowded tents in a parking lot
Hundreds of migrants were moved to tents in a Border Patrol parking lot outside El Paso.
There's a poop crisis at the border
A small Southern California town is dealing with contaminated water flowing from the Tijuana River.
Meet the teen genius who probably made your favorite BuzzFeed quiz
Rachel McMahon had no idea she was driving so much traffic for BuzzFeed with quizzes she wrote in her bedroom.
How the government shutdown hurt millions of people on food stamps
The shutdown was more than an inconvenience for the 40 million people on food stamps.
The nation's first charter school strike is a wake-up call for the charter movement
More than 500 teachers missed classes during the nation's first-ever charter school strike at one of the largest charter networks in Chicago.
What happens when a state grows way too much weed
Oregon's roughly 1,100 licensed producers are growing about twice as much weed as the state's 4 million people are actually consuming.
Why Republicans are being forced to play defense on health care
Republicans are all talk and little action on protecting pre-existing conditions.
Inside the House race to unseat the indicted, Islamaphobic Rep. Duncan Hunter in California's 50th
Duncan Hunter is running blatantly Islamophobic ads against his opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Latino Arab-American (who's a born-again Christian)
The flooding is just getting started in this North Carolina town
While Trump toured the coast, poorer parts of North Carolina were flooding for the first time
Inside a town in North Carolina where only the poorest parts flood
Why one family decided not to leave.
“This storm is not moving”: Rescues begin in North Carolina as floodwaters rise
A race to help those too poor to evacuate on their own.