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Publications

New York Times
62
The Climate Crisis Is Worse for Women. Here’s Why.
How to Let Go of Your Irreplaceable, Unstoppable Daughter
In Defense of ‘Woke’
Baseball Was My Life. Then I Stopped Being Able to Throw the Ball.
It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It.
The New Yorker
38
How Putin's Oligarchs Bought London
Forgetting My First Language
The Lonely, Vital Work of Medical Interpretation
How “Settlers” Avoids the Perils of Mars Movies
Chris Ware’s “Lockdown”: The artist discusses using his daily life in his drawings, and his daughter’s experience with school shooting drills.
Bloomberg Businessweek
16
U.S. Economy Celebrates 10 Years of Growth, But No One’s Partying
The Republicans Have a Peter Thiel Problem
BioNTech Supercharges a Factory to Produce More Covid Vaccine
Apps Are Coming for Your Happy Hour
No One Likes Annual Performance Reviews—Here’s How to Get Rid of Them
Washington Post
15
Masks went away. Then anxiety spiked for high-risk travelers.
The return-to-office perk your boss won’t mention: Gossip is back on
Ditch Your Grocery Store. Go Foraging Instead.
Blood is a respected ingredient around the world, but less so in the U.S. A new book aims to change that.
8 thrillers and mysteries to read this summer
Mother Jones
10
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
What the Lesbian Best Friend Trope Leaves Out
I Work at a Furniture Store That Went to Hell Once Bain Capital Bought It
Hollywood Has a Climate Problem
American Oligarchy
NBC News
9
Drowning is one of the hardest homicides to prove. These investigators want to change that.
My post-Covid family reunion wasn't what I expected. But it was so much of what I needed.
Crawfish boils are how we kick off summer back home. You can't replicate that in New York.
Unable to resist the urge to wave at the end of Zoom calls? You're not alone
White House website allows users to specify pronouns for first time
The Atlantic
8
The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable
Whatever You Write, There You Are
The False Promises Of Worker Retraining
Second Life
Insider
8
Crypto evangelists promise Web3 will be a truly free and democratic internet — but it's failing to live up to that hype
The grid is under attack
I'm a transgender college student, and Ron DeSantis just requested data on trans healthcare from my clinic. I'm worried about what the state will do next.
A Refugee’s Journey
The devil wears Shein
Noema Magazine
6
The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect
The Earth After Humans
Why It’s Time To Uncover The Surprises Hiding In Our DNA
We Need To Talk About The Carbon Footprints Of The Rich
The Extraordinary Green Promise Of A Tiny Molecule
Bloomberg
4
Tax Tactic of the Ultra-Wealthy: Split the Masterpiece in Two
Putting Your Washing Machine Into the Fight Against Ocean Plastic
Someday Your Self-Driving Car Will Pull Over for Police
A Handful of Simple Rules Might Have Prevented FTX’s Demise
The New Republic
4
Why Do Americans Have So Few Rights?
What Climate Change Is Doing to Our Sex Lives
The Town That Went Feral
Blame Palo Alto
The Verge
3
Grassroots online efforts are forming a new queer network of care
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer
The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed
Los Angeles Times
3
This is what it’s like to deliver food during a pandemic
The official bottled water power rankings
Taylor and Travis’ whirlwind romance is the love story we’ve been waiting for
Wired
3
Will Life Be Better in the Metaverse?
Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble
Inside the Alexa Prize
The Globe and Mail
2
I’m learning to make peace with my grief
I’ve learned there is one question you shouldn’t ask a newcomer
NPR
2
Invisibilia: The Great Narrative Escape
Code Switch: Archeological skeletons in the closet
The Economist
2
How covid-19 is inspiring education reform
The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
VICE
2
Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person
An Interview With a Runner Who Got Way Too High at the New York City Marathon
Propublica
2
Eugene Clemons May Be Ineligible for the Death Penalty. A Rigid Clinton-Era Law Could Force Him to Be Executed Anyway.
“A Courtroom Is a Really Lousy Place to Decide Science”
The Walrus
2
Gender Reveal Party
How Do You Make the Perfect Toy?
Buzzfeed News
2
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs
Why Bugs Are The High-Protein And Fiber-Rich Food You Should Be Eating
The Guardian
2
The secret to great sex? It’s not what you think …
Summer in the city: Edmund White on sex and dancing in 60s New York
Tor
2
The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers
Also, the Cat
Financial Times
2
Vegan products are the wild west of ‘wackaging’
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
The Paris Review
1
Teonanácatl
Foreign Policy
1
The Negotiators
Quartz
1
What the EU's Digital Markets Act means for tech
Vox
1
Effective altruism’s most controversial idea
Institutional Investor
1
Out of Chaos Comes Order — and Consequences
This American Life (NPR)
1
My Lying Eyes: People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.
MIT Technology Review
1
The future of urban housing is energy-efficient refrigerators
The Hollywood Reporter
1
Emmys: Will the ‘Game of Thrones’ Divisive Finale Hurt Its Awards Chances?
Polygon
1
Hunting for a PS5 has become an entire subculture
MOMENT Magazine
1
MOMENT 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Our City
Wallstreet Journal
1
The New Psychedelic Plot
Harvard Business Review
1
Strategic Planning Should Be a Strategic Exercise
Elemental, by Medium
1
Financial Instability Is a Mental Health Crisis
Faesthetic Magazine
1
Convergent Visions
Poetry Foundation
1
A Bird Translates Silence
Tribune
1
The Reinvention of the Right
New York Magazine
1
NY Magazine: Best of New York 2013
National Geographic
1
In A Warming Climate, We Need To Radically Rethink How We Conserve Nature
McSweeney's
1
McSweeney's Issue 68: Cover
Nautilus
1
Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths
The Marshall Project
1
The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison
Bon Appétit Magazine
1
Vote If You Love Food
New Trail: University of Alberta
1
The Future of Farming is Smarter
Outside Online
1
A Very Old Man for a Wolf
Follow The Money
1
The foundations of the best pension system in the world are cracking [translated]
Atlanta Magazine
1
Tune out stress with these 3 sound therapy spots in Atlanta
Time Magazine
1
Inside Donald Trump’s Meltdown
Barron's
1
Apple Needs New Growth to Justify Its Soaring Stock. It Won’t Be Easy.
Al Majalla
1
Will Javier Milei deliver salvation to Argentina?
The Nation
1
When Force-Feeding Is Torture
De Volkskrant
1
Measles outbreaks are back: how the vaccine against the childhood disease once came to the Netherlands [Translated]
Grist
1
The Fescue Fighters
The Telegraph
1
Why being honest is the key to avoiding a toxic work culture
Vulture
1
It’s Tubi’s Time — How the weird, free streamer won the internet’s heart