Since becoming a freelancer, she has become a regular contributor to Slate, and has written for the New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Cosmopolitan, among other publications.
For Style, the daily features section of the Washington Post, Copeland covered the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial, the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and the 2008 presidential election.
Her coverage of the 2006 Congressional mid-term elections has also been both lauded [8][9] and enthusiastically criticized [10] by the blogging community, and Wonkette called one of her pieces "fawning.
[citation needed] She profiled Matt Damon,[14] and skewered the popular girls' retailer Club Libby Lu.
[15] Copeland has a book being released in March 2020 about the subject of commercial genetic testing and its impact on traditional concepts of family.