Selected Writing
An Uncommon Victory for an Indigenous Tribe in the Amazon The New Yorker, 5/15/19
The Future of Artificial Intelligence The New York Times Book Review, 5/2/19
David Attenborough Delivers an Urgent Message The New Yorker, 4/13/19
The Other Kind of Climate Denialism The New Yorker, 3/6/19
What if Plants Were One of Us? The Nation, 3/1/10
The Vegan Future of Meat and the End of Animal Farming The New Republic, 2/13/19
The Optimistic Science of De-Extinction The New Yorker 12/27/18
The Not-So-Uplifting Year in the Animal Kingdom The New Yorker, 12/23/18
Narcissists in Space Jacobin, Fall 2018
Letter from Lancaster County: Nuns Square Off Against a Pipeline Pacific Standard, 9/10/18
Bear Cam's Captivating, Unedited Zen The New Yorker 8/6/18
Free the Whales: The History of Orca-Catchers in America The New Republic, 8/17/19
Blood Will Out: Theranos and the Shark Tankification of American Life The Baffler, 6/12/18
Can Rivers Be People Too? The New Republic, 5/9/18
Libertarians Seek a New Home on the High Seas The New Republic, 5/29/17
Innocent Intellect BOMB, 3/30/17
The Future of Remembering VICE, January 2017
It Takes a Lot of Money to Look This Cheap Dissent, Winter 2017
Who Gets to Be a Science Nerd? The New Republic, 11/29/16
Inky the Octopus and the Upsides of Anthropomorphism The New Yorker, 4/26/16
The Selfie Project The New York Post, 5/4/16
Jeb: An Elegy! Catapult, 2/26/16
The Rainmakers Meridian, Winter 2015 Nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize
Neil deGrasse Tyson is Your -- And Everyone Else's -- Personal Astrophysicist Vice, 10/26/15
How the Rich Profit from Natural Disasters The New Republic, 10/5/15
The Climate Hackers Dissent, Summer 2015
On Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Tin House, Summer 2015
Aral Spring Audubon, 1/8/15
Whose Moon is it Anyway? Dissent, Fall 2014
Chasing a Comet Cafe, 11/18/14
Celebrate Corporate Personhood! Guernica, 5/23/14
The Teaching Class Guernica, 5/16/14
Will Space Mining Save the Earth? The New Republic, 5/19/14
Tournament of Books. The Morning News, 3/26/13
On E.F. Schumacher. Tin House, Spring 2013.
The Marvelous Mrs. Stanley & the Amazing Dr. Youtz. The Pinch, Spring 2013
Planetary Emergency. Guernica, 12/20/12
Rape and Rhetoric. Guernica, 8/22/12
Let's Get Radical. The Revealer, 7/13/12
Human Rights Horror Stories. Guernica, 6/22/12.
On Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. Mother Jones, 4/28/12
Emergency in Slow Motion. Guernica, 4/19/12
Rockstars of Neuroscience Debate the Future of Brain Studies. Capital New York, 4/3/12
How the Million Hoodie March Quells our Unreasonable Fears. Guernica, 3/29/12
Uncommon Sense. Tin House, Spring 2012
No Such Thing as Giving Too Much. Treehugger, 1/27/12
The Beautiful and the Dammed: Part 1 & Part 2. Myoo, 11/10/11 and 11/20/11
Patient. The Missouri Review, Spring 2010. Anthologized in Best American Essays 2011, edited by Edwidge Danticat.
In Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research. The Nation, 4/11/11
We’ll See What Happens Tonight. The Faster Times, 7/22/10
What We Talk About When We Talk About Progress. The Rumpus, 5/13/10