Selected journalism (short and long)

U.S. News and World Report

Statesman or Jihadist? What to Make of Syria’s De Facto Leader Abu Mohammed Al-Golani

How the Fall of Assad Will Reshape the Middle East

The GOP Plans to Challenge the Election

The EU Tackles ‘Ecocide’

Japan’s Cannabis Crackdown

Why Portland is So White

Gentrification in George Floyd’s Childhood Neighborhood

A Success Story in South Bend?

Does Airbnb Hurt or Help Cities?

Will Toledo, Ohio, Give Rights to Lake Erie?

Can Flint Be Fixed?

Electric Scooter Armageddon?

Ford's Role in Solving Detroit’s Public Transit Crisis

VICE

‘It’s Been Hell’: Inside the Town Where Trumpers Are Building a Private Wall

‘Sentenced to Death’: What It’s Like Living in a Cancer-Plagued Oil Town

The Long Shadow of Racism Hangs Over Montgomery’s First Black Mayor

This Mayor Allegedly Said Vile, Racist Things on Tape. Voters Still Stand by Him

This Community Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Non-Christians Owning Houses

How This Small Town in Trump Country Dumped Its Islamophobic President

John Conyers’s Family Is in a Bizarre Fight Over His Congressional Seat

The People Left Behind by Detroit’s ‘Comeback’

The ‘Croc Whisperer’ Saving Jamaica’s Crocodiles One at a Time

They Still Call Me Daddy

Washington Post

What they saved from the fires

White people have flocked back to city centers

The closure of the Echo Park Lake’s homeless encampment leaves residents bereft: ‘We’re just trying to suck it up’

When drag queens lead children’s story time, ‘a lot of hugs’ — and controversy — follow

A submerged oil pipeline triggers a winter of frigid protest

Tiny houses multiply amid big issues as communities tackle homelessness

Christian Science Monitor

Can a Michigan doctor become America's first Muslim governor?

When auto insurance becomes a social-justice question

Why Michigan's Iraqi Christians thought Trump would spare their loved ones

For America's first Muslim-led city, Trump ban is wakeup call

With schools back under local control, can Detroit chart a better future?

The Real Deal

Meet Leo Pustilnikov, a California NIMBY’s Worst Nightmare

Builder’s Justice: How a Legal Loophole Could Reshape California

Frank Gehry Swims Upstream

Is Richard Weintraub L.A.’s Most Versatile Developer?

The Cryptonaires Will See You Now

Mohamed Hadid’s Last Stand

Shaken, Not Stirred

The Gentleman Builder

Audubon

Meet the Hunters—and Their Dogs—Who Spend Spring Tracking Woodcock Chicks

HOUR Detroit Magazine

Hate Crime or False Flag? (pdf)

An Anatomy of Deportation: Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo

Belt Magazine

As Flint suffers and Nestlé prospers, many are asking: Who owns the rights to Michigan water?

Under Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac, ‘It’s a disaster waiting to happen’

Turns out Kid Rock’s Senate run was a prank. But the divisions it exposed between Detroit and its surrounding suburbs are no joke

Detroit Metro Times

Black and Blue

Village Voice

Traveling Through the Suburbs That Made Michigan “Trump Country”

Miami New Times

Pork n’ Beans Reborn (pdf)

Shot Through the Heart (pdf)

Hard Time (pdf)

Semi Pro (pdf)

Shot at the Spot (pdf)

Troubled Tides (pdf)

Life on the Edge (pdf)

The Lord of Chicken (pdf)

Blood on the Water (pdf)

Ghosts Left Behind (pdf)

Salon

Jesse Friedman: "Forget it? I can never forget it. It never, ever goes away"

Columbia Journalism Review

When reporters are kidnapped

Geographical

The Road North (pdf)