Best-selling author & award-winning journalist
A new, updated edition of Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World has been released by Rare Bird Books. The critically acclaimed book by Patrick Range McDonald reveals the inspiring, untold story of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical-care nonprofit. Read more...
Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, has written a new book: Selling Off California: The Untold Story. It’s a must-read for understanding the powerful alliances and devastating policies that fuel the housing affordability and homelessness crises in California and around the country. Read more...
Patrick Range McDonald is the winner of the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club. In previous years, he’s received the “Journalist of the Year” award from the L.A. Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, among other honors. Read more...
For Housing Is A Human Right, I looked into the housing and land-use policies pushed by Big Tech, California YIMBY, and State Sen. Scott Wiener. The investigation lays out a largely untold story about the behind-the-scenes relationships between the powerful trio and their dangerous pro-gentrification agenda. Read more...
As Californians struggle with a worsening housing affordability crisis, I decided to profile the crucial work of housing justice activists fighting for stronger tenant protections. All of them, I found out, were engaged in underdog battles against influential lobbyists, indifferent politicians, and politically connected landlords and developers. Read more...
For my advocacy journalism work for Housing Is A Human Right, I routinely delve into the backroom politics that fuel gentrification and housing affordability crises in California. For two special reports, I specifically examined the housing policy records of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California State Sen. Read more...
Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years, a documentary that explores the life-saving work of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, premieres at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles on October 19. Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald served as the historical consultant for the film. Read more...
The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal, gives high praise to Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World. The book details the inspiring, untold story of the world’s largest AIDS non-profit, which provides free HIV treatment to underserved people in more than 40 countries. Read more...