SELECTED WRITING
The End of Denial: How Trump’s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party’s break with reality // New York Magazine
Ben Mezrich’s Foolproof Formula for Hollywood Success // New York Magazine
How 12,000 Restaurants Speedily, Messily, and Probably Permanently Took Over the Street // New York Magazine
Head Games // New York Magazine
Aaron Bushnell's Agonies // New York Magazine
The Radicalization of J.D. Vance // The Washington Post
Searchers: Joe Rogan and Male Bonding // The Point
The Governor's Wife Would Like to Be Senator // New York Magazine
Seed Capitalists // New York Magazine
The Tragedy of Jayquan McKenley: Hip hop, social media, and gang rivalry collide in the Bronx // New York Magazine
The Rise and Fall of the Lottery Lawyer: A Saga of Mobsters, Jewelers, and Lost Mega-Millions // Bloomberg Businessweek
The Builder, the Border, and the $30 Million Boondoggle. How one Private Wall in Texas Explains the Biden-era Border Crisis // Bloomberg Businessweek
The High Priest of Cryptopia Regrets Nothing // New York Magazine
QAnon Goes to Congress // New York Magazine
Likes Vs. Hate: Embedding with Facebook's Little-Known, All-Powerful Shadow Government // Vanity Fair
Bad Romance: Inside the Scandalous, Gossipy Collapse of the National Enquirer // Columbia Journalism Review
The Troubles of the Taxi King // Bloomberg Businessweek
Does This Man Know More than Robert Mueller? // New York Magazine
Nights and Days with the New, New Left // New York Magazine
New York's Most Infamous Landlord and the Hyper-Gentrification of Manhattan // Bloomberg Businessweek
Lost at Sea with Rob Gronkowski // Boston Magazine
Little Scalia // New York Magazine
Husbands and Lies: The Tragic Downfall of Boston's Most Powerful Lawmaker // Boston Magazine
Does Boothbay Have a Vodka Problem? A Liquor Magnate Convulses Vacationland // Boston Magazine
The World v. Alan Dershowitz // Boston Magazine
Certified Organic: Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes, Hollywood's Highly Imperfect and Strangely Powerful Arbiter of Good Taste // Wired
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Here to Livestream: The Anti-Climax of Power in the Conspiracy Era // The Washington Post
In a World of Dank Memes and Fake News, Can the Libs Play Dirty on the Internet? // New York Magazine
When the Pundit King Met the Pandemic: How the Talking Head Business Survives and Thrives // Columbia Journalism Review
Beyond Alt: The Rise of a Right-Wing Counterculture // New York Magazine
At RT, News Breaks You // Bloomberg Businessweek
OY the Traffic! And it's POURING. Do I hear SIRENS? Why Local TV News Never Changes // Columbia Journalism Review
Jon Gosselin in the Wilderness: A Reality Star Confronts Reality // Philly Mag
The Internet of Guns: The Rise of the Tactical Life Movement // The Washington Post
Why Can't America Have Great Trains? // National Journal Magazine
Who's Your Daddy? Meet Miami's Political Kingmaker (and Car Dealer Kingpin) // Bloomberg Businessweek
The Definitive Tale of How Robocallers Outwitted Washington and Broke the Do Not Call List // The Washington Post
Mr. Bombshell: The Man Who Made Liberals Love the Deep State // New York Magazine
What Happens When an Infamous Local Playboy Gate-Crashes the Stodgy World of Boston Philanthropy // Boston Magazine
Howard Schultz and the Doomed Quest for a Nonexistent Center // The Washington Post
Howie Carr Is Deplorable: Did Boston's Legendary Talker Buy in or Sell Out? // Boston Magazine
Broken LivingSocial Scene: The Inside Story of DC's Most Overhyped Startup // Washington City Paper
The Epic Fail of the Main Line Drug Ring: How an Ultra-Preppy Criminal Enterprise Went Very Wrong // Philly Mag
The Sexual Assault Scandal That Rocked an Elite, Quaker Liberal Arts Campus // Philly Mag
Investing with the Stars: Inside Wall Street's Unlikely Astrology Cult // Bloomberg Businessweek
The Artifice of the Deal: How an Old Hotel, Covered in Glass, Underwritten by his Father, Became the Donald's Big Manhattan Break // POLITICO Magazine
Meet the CPAC Brat Pack // National Journal Magazine
59 Minutes with Uber Lobbyist and de Blasio Bete Noire Bradley Tusk // New York Magazine
The Huckster // POLITICO Magazine
The Gamble: How a Small New Jersey College Lost its Big Atlantic City Bet // Philly Mag
The Ballad of Buddy: America's Most Infamous Ex-Con Ex-Mayor Is Back for his Old Job // Boston Magazine
The Clinton-in-Law: Ten Years Removed from Scandal, Chelsea Clinton's Husband's Mom Plots her Political Comeback // POLITICO Magazine
The Other Ellipse: The Secret History of the MLK Memorial // Washington City Paper
How Roger Goodell - and his Powerful Top Lobbyist - Turned the NFL into a Political Machine // ESPN the Magazine
Planes, Trains, and Conspiracy Theories (and Swinger Parties): The Summer a Wealthy Virginia County Lost its Mind Over a Metro Line // Washington City Paper
"I'm Right and Everybody Else is Wrong. Clear About That?" On the Early Campaign Trail with Bernie Sanders // National Journal Magazine
It's Ori's World. We're Just Living In It: Meet Philadelphia's Gentrifier-in-Chief // Philly Mag
Mob Rules: Natalie Guercio and the Most Bananas Reality Show on TV // Philly Mag
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Lie Detector Test // Philly Mag
King David: The Lighting-Rod Hedge Funder Who Divided Philadelphia's Main Line // Philly Mag
The Condo King Goes to City Hall // Philly Mag
How a Scandal-Plagued Right-Wing Filmmaker Became More Powerful Than Ever // National Journal Magazine
The Queen of "Like": An Unlikely Appreciation of Terry Gross // Philly Mag
Why Does Everyone Hate Mike Nutter? // Philly Mag
One Last Drink at the Best Bad Bar in Philadelphia (with Joanne) // Philly Mag
The Impossible Job of Saving America's Poorest Big City School District // Philly Mag
A Long, Pretty Contentious, Occasionally Amusing Interview with Retired, Bestubbled, Book-Hawking Congressman Barney Frank // Boston Magazine
Free Willy // Boston Magazine
Marty Walsh is Not Tom Menino. Does That Actually Make him a Good Mayor? // Boston Magazine
The Billy Pulpit: Jim Brady's Quixotic Mission to Save Local News...Again // Philly Mag
The Great Escape: Did one NGO Lie About Its Role in Syria? // TNR
The Myth of the Coach: A New Football Hagiography and the Problem with College Sports // TNR
Off the Grid with Larry Lessig // TNR