Nicole Shine
Nicole Knight Shine is a staff writer with the Orange County Register. Her work has appeared in the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times.
Hollow Promises, Lifetime Choices: The Appalling Duplicity of Pro-Life Crisis Pregnancy Centers
What are pro-lifers willing to promise in the cause of life?
Can a Female MacGyver Correct Engineering’s Gender Imbalance?
A re-make of the hit MacGyver aims to do for women in engineering what Modern Family did for gay marriage. Can it work?
Are Ties to a Notorious Institution a Career Killer?
How scandals—even silly ones—affect the lives of individuals associated with the institutions mired in them.
How an After-School Program Fought Crime
A police force and an after-school program in Costa Mesa, California, worked together to make a neighborhood safer and send kids to college. What can we learn from their success?
The Battle Over High School Animal Dissection
Is the biology class tradition a useful rite of passage or a schoolroom relic?