Features & Reporting
NYT Mag: The old climate-activism playbook no longer works. What else can? [2025]
I found Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s secret Facebook Marketplace account [2022]
The religious left has found its mission: helping U.S. patients get abortions [2022]
Edible Arrangements: How a pandemic success story became a furious corporate food fight [2022]
“What’s the scam?” Inside the conservative fight to win back Alaska [2022]
In a Texas clinic, the most surprising consequence of a new abortion ban [2022]
For 70 years, residents of America’s first Black suburb have endured constant gunfire from a police shooting range. They’ve finally had enough. [2021]
Weeks after the Jan. 6 attack, members of Congress grapple with trauma [2021]
Why is Planned Parenthood halting abortions before bans take effect? [2022]
A dispatch from the Alaska state fair [2022]
The parents who lied to get their 11-year-olds vaccinated [2021]
How Maine (almost) turned on Susan Collins [2020]
How cops are talking about the George Floyd protests [2020]
One Burmese restaurant’s struggle to survive the early pandemic [2020]
When you have TSA Precheck and your partner doesn’t [2020]
A profile of Piper Perabo, #resistance celebrity [2019]
The gay divide over Marianne Williamson [2019]
Cultural Analysis & Criticism
NYT: The womb is a miracle, and a mystery [2023]
NYT: The human shields of the abortion rights movement [2022]
One year of life, love, and drama in our pandemic pods [2021]
End QR codes. Bring back menus. [2021]
Absolutely no one knows what kind of jeans are in style right now [2021]
I joined a quarantine pod. You should too. [2020]
Zoom gatherings are deeply unsatisfying. Maybe that’s a good thing. [2020]
The Inadequacy of Hope: Michelle Obama’s Becoming, reviewed [2018]
The absurdist poetry of the men’s holiday gift guide [2018]
Against co-ed sports [2018]
What I learned from viewing 734 Playboy centerfolds in one sitting [2017]
Political Analysis
Five years later, how should we remember the Women’s March? [2022]
Dobbs regrounded the sanitized abortion debate in flesh and blood [2022]
From the scene of Biden’s inauguration, a reflection on what Trump did to D.C. [2021]
A theory of Trump’s use of female pain as punishment [2018]
The Women’s March is not the women’s movement [2019]
Christine Blasey Ford changed everything [2018]
Playful incel memes aren’t jokes. They’re propaganda. [2018]
A close reading of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Instagram account [2018]
Thoughts on the unwelcome semi-pleasantness of Ted Cruz’s beard [2018]
Why Melania Trump rarely uses her sleeves [2018]