A highly personal list, alphabetical by author. Click here for previous lists. A Championship Season in Mariachi Country Cecilia Ballí, New York Times Magazine Three South Texas teams square off in a national competition. Seize the Night Ed Caesar, The New Yorker A profile of Solomun, an Ibiza-based DJ who has been known to play sets […]
Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide? Originally published in The Nation. IN JANUARY 2020, DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE in New York banned a photography professor named Lowell Handler from its property and declared him unqualified […]
Stress test
New research tools help scientists measure stress in wildlife before their populations plummet. Originally published in National Wildlife JUST BEFORE SUNRISE, LOUIS HUNNINCK woke up at a research center in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. He climbed into an off-road vehicle, joined by an assistant, and rode through the scrubby equatorial landscape until they saw a group […]
‘That’s Fake News!’
False information has reached a crescendo, but it’s hardly a new phenomenon. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post. ON A RAINY MORNING IN MAY 1917, residents of Boise, Idaho, opened their city’s newspaper to see column after column of World War I dispatches. One report stood out from the rest. It topped page 4, next […]
Stories from National Wildlife
Two of a Kind (on same-sex behavior) Stress Test (on measuring stress hormones in conservation research) Room to Roam? (on wildlife during the pandemic) Hope Rising (on the Endangered Species Act) Going the Distance (on bird migration) A Plague of Plastics Power Play (on sexual harassment among wildlife) When Animals Grieve Going Native (on the […]
Cumulative Impacts
Originally published in the Border Belt Independent, May 2022. LAST WINTER, AS THE N.C. DEPARTMENT of Environmental Quality (DEQ) considered a new permit for a Robeson County plant that generates electricity by burning poultry waste and wood, it turned to the public for comment. The earful it received was mighty and unanimous. The facility, owned […]
The Youngest Operative
Cutler Bryant is 17. He is also a key political strategist in Robeson County, N.C., where Lumbee voters are in the forefront of a hard shift to the Republican Party. Originally published in the Border Belt Independent. WHEN THE ROBESON COUNTY REPUBLICAN Republican Party held its annual convention in March, one of the star speakers […]
Birds of a Feather
Avian DNA holds secrets that reveal where birds migrate and their resilience to climate change. The Bird Genoscape Project aims to unlock them. Originally published in Audubon. Photos by Noppadol Paothong. A BURST OF WHISTLES PIERCED THE FOGGY morning in the Missouri Ozarks. It came from Marina Rodriguez’s Bluetooth speaker but sounded enough like a […]
Coverage of North Carolina hog industry
Chronological order, oldest to newest. The Vanishing Act (Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019) After years of burying complaints about hog-farm pollution, North Carolina officials began posting them online. What changed? (Also published in The Guardian and McClatchy North Carolina papers.) Raising a Stink (Food & Environment Reporting Network, December 2019) Rural North Carolinians sued the world’s largest hog producer over […]
My favorite longform of 2021
A highly personal list, alphabetical by author. Click here for previous lists. Nikki Haley’s Time for Choosing Tim Alberta, Politico https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/magazine-nikki-haleys-choice The type of surefooted, readable profile that comes from interviewing nearly 70 friends, associates, donors, staffers, and former colleagues. An Act of God Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/the-murder-scandalizing-brazils-evangelical-church A Pentecostal minister in Brazil, […]
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