Selected Writing
Book Reviews
The Baffler: We Owe Each Other Everything: The long arc of Black utopianism (December 2024)
- Big Bad Wolf: Review of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger (October 2023)
Jewish Currents: What went wrong with identity politics? (June 2018)
The New Republic: The Internet supercharged the exploitation of Black culture (June 2024)
Cultural Criticism
Balls and Strikes: John Roberts doesn’t understand how racism works (July 2023)
Slate: Who Donald Trump was really speaking to with his vile comments on Kamala Harris’ Blackness (August 2024)
Washington Monthly: How Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh weaponized their allegations (September 2018)
Essays
The Baffler: Plight of the Squeegee Kids: How Baltimore’s youth became pawns in a racist culture war (July 2019)
- No Breakthrough in Sight: Washington, D.C., and the long life of housing segregation (May 2023)
Features
Courthouse News Service: Congressman’s Post-Riot Suit Could Dismantle Hate Groups (February 2021)
- How reparations went from the fringe to the headlines (May 2021)
Politico: How the nation’s most punitive state for ex-felons expanded voting rights, for now (January 2021)
Proximate: What’s next for DAF reform? (December 2023)
- Not Waiting Around: The Foundations Transforming DAFs from within (August 2024)
Smithsonian: How do you rest in a culture of overwork? (June 2024)
- The vast geographic scope of slavery is hard to fathom. One groundbreaking exhibition shows its true scale around the globe. (January 2025)
Talking Points Memo: How a rural California county became a petri dish for the Big Lie (April 2023)
Washington City Paper: Double Exposure Film Festival trains its eye on Russia (October 2022)
Interviews
Capital Bop: Cecily taps the healing power of joy on ‘Awakening Pt. II’ (September 2024)
The Fader: How artist Jacolby Satterwhite contributed to Solange’s When I Get Home film (March 2019)
The New Republic: The Caribbean immigrants who transformed Britain (June 2018)
- Noam Chomsky does not think the planet is doomed (yet) (October 2020)
Investigations
The Appeal: How Florida’s sluggish voter registration process sent ex-prisoners back to jail (October 2023)
Bolts Mag: “An issue no one can see”: Watchdogs fault D.C. for ongoing solitary confinement (February 2024)
Media Matters For America: A Texas assistant attorney general is a QAnon conspiracy theorist who tweets out violent threats and bigoted remarks (September 2020)
Talking Points Memo: A legal filing sheds some light on what may have happened to all those Jan. 6 text messages (August 2022)
- How a conspiracy-theorizing documentary fueled a wave of voter intimidation in Arizona (October 2022)