features
The Billionaire That Controls Irvine, California
Bloomberg Businessweek, March 27, 2025 (archive link)
The California Town Owned by a Hedge Fund
The New Yorker, January 4, 2024
How Rich People Get Divorced in Secret
The Cut, March 31, 2023
The Uncertain Future of the Queer Beach
The Baffler, October 26, 2022
Prenups Aren't Just for Rich People Anymore
The New Yorker, July 12, 2022
The Untold History of Queer Foster Families
The New Yorker, February 28, 2021
commentary
The Trans Sports Ban Portends Something Much Darker
The Atlantic, January 17, 2025
A Brief History of Olympic Sex Testing
New York Times, June 21, 2024
The Celebrity Machine Never Dies
The Atlantic, December 4, 2024
history
The Forgotten Trans Legacy of Barbara Ann Richards
Slate, March 2022
The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot
Harper's Bazaar, March 2022
The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay Rights Movement
The New Yorker, October 2021
The Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
The New Yorker, June 1, 2024
The Forgotten Origins of Queer Media
Columbia Journalism Review, November 2020
The Strange History of Accidental Gay Marriage
Lapham's Quarterly, June 2019
The "Born This Way" Myth
Buzzfeed Reader, June 2019
economics
How Rich Parents Are Gaming Credit Scores
The Atlantic, January 9, 2025
An Overlooked Path to a Financial Fresh Start
The Atlantic, October 30, 2024
The Great Life Insurance Rebrand
The Atlantic, July 2021
The Digital Colonialism Behind .io and .nu
WIRED, February 2020
Are Paralegals the Key to Affordable Legal Advice?
The New Republic, November 22, 2022
The Case for Public Sports Ownership
Defector, December 2, 2022
freakonomics episodes
(as a writer/producer)
Game Show Winnings
The Economics of Everyday Things, March 2025
Porta Potties
The Economics of Everyday Things, January 2025
everything else
Why Rich People Don't Cover Their Windows
The Atlantic, January 22, 2024
The Decline of Streaking
The Atlantic, June 13, 2024
The Ice Cream Music Monopoly
The Hustle, October 2020
Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance
Electric Literature, May 2018