Most Recent Work
The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy (The New York Times, February 2021)
Features
Nerd Wars
New York Magazine
Nate Silver and G. Elliott Morris are trying to make sense of the 2020 election — and each other.
There’s One Way We Really Are “at War” With the Coronavirus
Slate
Confronting it requires state-corporate intervention on a scale not seen since World War II.
Then WeCame to the End
N+1, The Guardian
The office-space startup took a tumble when investors tired of its messianic CEO and lack of profits. But why were its backers – the House of Saud among them – so keen to pour billions into it in the first place? (This story was also published in The Guardian).
Bernie’s Red Vermont
The New Republic
How Sanders’s brand of American socialism emerged from the crucible of the Green Mountain State’s squabbling counterculture
Commentary
The New York Times
The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy (February 2021)
$1 Trillion, Too Little, Too Late (December, 2020)
Barron’s
The Best Part of the Cares Act Is Dying. It Should Live Again. (July, 2020)
Key Economic Indicators Are Weirdly Inverted. It’s a Very Bad Sign. (June, 2020)
Coronavirus Battered the Unemployment System. That Might Be Good News. (April, 2020)
Cash is Not Enough to Save the Economy (March, 2020)
How This Time Is Different: Washington Has the Luxury of Knowing What’s Coming (March 2020)
Pete Buttigieg’s Back-to-the-Future Deficits Plan (February, 2020)
Business Insider
Federal Reserve policy has failed Black Americans for decades. Now is the time to fix that. (July 2020)
Everyone is Focusing on the Wrong Problem with the PPP Program (May 2020)
State Governments Need a Bailout, Soon, or the Coronavirus Recession Could Get Uglier (April, 2020)
For His Own Good — and the Country's Health — Trump Needs to Get Aggressive on the Coronavirus Response (March, 2020)
Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg May Seem Wildly Different, but Their Political Styles Actually Have A lot in Common (March, 2020)
The Push by Warren and Sanders to Rid the Government of Wall Street Alums Could End Up a Mistake (January, 2020)
Reporting
New York Magazine
Nerd Wars: Nate Silver and G. Elliott Morris are trying to make sense of the 2020 election—and each other (October, 2020)
The New Republic
How David Graeber Changed the Way We See Money (September, 2020)
GEN
What Americans Need to Understand About the Swedish Coronavirus Experiment (May, 2020)
Slate
There’s One Way We Really Are “at War” With the Coronavirus (March, 2020)
A Former Ambassador on Why Ivanka Doesn’t Belong in Meetings With World Leaders (July, 2019)
Vox
Almost 90 Years after Prohibition, Some Places Are Still Dry. Why Is That? (December, 2019)
Hurricane Katrina Inspired a National Pet Evacuation Policy. The Plan Could save Human Lives, Too. (November, 2019)
Affordable Housing Is Disappearing. So Cities Are Designating Parking Lots to Sleep In. (October, 2019)
How Austin’s Failed Attempt to Regulate Uber and Lyft Foreshadowed Today’s Ride-hailing Controversies (September, 2019)
Do Plastic Bag Taxes or Bans Curb Waste? 400 Cities and States Tried It Out. (August, 2019)
There’s a Huge Debate over How the Very Poorest Are Doing. There’s No Debate about Whether Food Stamps Help Them. (July, 2019)
What Seattle Learned From Having the Highest Minimum Wage in the Nation (July, 2019)
The Racial Roots of Trump’s Anti-trade Agenda (July, 2019)
Wonks Hate Bernie Sanders’s Debt Relief Plan. That’s the Point. (June, 2019)
Marianne Williamson and the Rise of “Spiritual but Not Religious” (June, 2019)
The Nation
Alan Krueger’s Radical Empiricism (March, 2019)
Bernie Has Feelings, Too! (March, 2019)
Marker
How Brexit Became a Game of Chicken With the U.S. (September, 2019)
OneZero
What Facebook’s Remote Work Policy Means for the Future of Tech Salaries Everywhere (May, 2020)
Regulators Are Figuring Out How to Make Google and Facebook Sweat (February, 2019)
Gig Workers Are Falling Into the Payday Loan Trap (January, 2019)