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Does the U.S. Even Want Out of This Middle East War?, Splinter (October 2024)
The Kursk Offensive Did Not Reverse Ukraine’s Challenges in the Donbas, Splinter (September 2024)
Europe Can Expect Continuity from Kamala Harris, Internationale Politik Quarterly (August 2024)
A Lack of Aid and Water in Gaza Are Creating “A Catastrophe the Size of Which We Don’t Know Yet”, Splinter (August 2024)
Ukraine’s Summer of Uncertainty, Splinter (June 2024)
What to Make of Europe’s Far-Right Spike, Splinter (June 2024)
The Party That Could Shake Up German Politics, Foreign Policy (June 2024)
At the Venice Biennale, Ukrainian Artists Examine the Many Realities of Russia’s War, ARTNews (April 2024)
The Conflict in Sudan the World Forgot, Splinter (April 2024)
A Make-or-Break Year for a Ukraine in Limbo, The American Prospect (February 2024)
Would the US intervene to defend Taiwan? Ask Japan., Vox (January 2024)
There are now more land mines in Ukraine than almost anywhere else on the planet, Vox (November 2023)
Poland’s democracy is on the brink. Can these elections save it?, Vox (October 2023)
2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons, Vox (September 2023)
How Russia’s invasion transformed one Ukrainian city, Vox (May 2023)
Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?, Vox (April 2023)
Europe’s unprecedented response to Ukrainian refugees faces new challenges, Vox (December 2022)
Can Ukraine’s infrastructure survive the winter?, Vox (November 2022)
Why firewood is suddenly in high demand in Germany, Vox (November 2022)
Public transit for nine bucks a month? Germany tried it., Vox (August 2022)
Afghanistan’s staggering set of crises, explained, Vox (August 2022)
Ukraine's disappeared, Vox (April 2022)
The other members of Ukraine’s resistance, Vox (March 2022)
Why thousands of Afghans are still on US military bases, Vox (October 2021)
Germany’s (sort of) change elections, Vox (September 2021)
How Senegal stretched its health care system to stop Covid-19, Vox (April 2021)
A pandemic year in the life of a New York City block, Vox (April 2021)
Oregon already votes by mail. Here’s what it can teach us in 2020., Vox (September 2020)
Why C-Span's quirky call-in show has endured for 40 year, Vox (February 2020)
Brexit’s Irish border problem, explained, Vox (February 2019)
A suicide in a school. A bullet on campus. Are these “school shootings”?, Vox (March 2018)
Meet the Future Voice of the Brooklyn Nets. Maybe., New York Magazine (July 2017)
NYC’s North Brother Island, Abandoned for 50 Years, Might Finally Be Opened to (Legal) Visitors, New York Magazine (October 2016)
How Cosby Survivors Fought to Change Colorado’s Sexual-Assault Law — and Won, The Cut (June 2016)
Why You Can't Go Here: NYC's Perpetual Public-Toilet Problem, New York Magazine (February 2016)
I’m No Longer Afraid’: 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen (interviews and online biographies), New York Magazine (July 2015)
Why Coyotes Are Flourishing in New York City, New York Magazine (May 2015)
Diving for Dollars, Narrative.ly (September 2014)
Chicago Shutdowns: What’s Lost, LatinoUSA (May 2013)