You Can Run
Key takeaways
- Barry Meier is an investigative reporter who worked for more than twenty-five years at the New York Times, where he specialized in coverage of business and public health.
- Editor: Seyward Darby Art Director: Ed Johnson Copy Editor: Sean Cooper Fact Checker: Darya MarchenkovaIllustrator: Vanessa SabaPublished in May 2026.
- Erin McCann raced along the Pennsylvania Turnpike at seventy-five miles per hour, desperate to reach her mother’s house before it was too late.
Barry Meier is an investigative reporter who worked for more than twenty-five years at the New York Times, where he specialized in coverage of business and public health. He was a member of the reporting team that received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and is a recipient of two George Polk Awards. He is the author of the book Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic.
Editor: Seyward Darby Art Director: Ed Johnson Copy Editor: Sean Cooper Fact Checker: Darya MarchenkovaIllustrator: Vanessa SabaPublished in May 2026.
Erin McCann raced along the Pennsylvania Turnpike at seventy-five miles per hour, desperate to reach her mother’s house before it was too late. Erin, a lawyer, had left Philadelphia soon after the call came, and as she drove past the farms of Pennsylvania Dutch country, she could still hear her mother’s voice: “They’re out there. I’m done.”