Culture, History + Politics
Cults
Rolling Stone
Charles Manson Masks, Made With His Ashes, Spark Outrage in Murderabilia Community, December 30, 2019
Children of Recluse Dutch Family Thought They Were the Only People Left on Earth, October 18, 2019
FDA Begs Public to Please Stop Drinking Bleach, August 14, 2019
Inside the Murderabilia Machine, August 9, 2019
Manson Family Movies: 11 Streaming Films Go Inside Terrifying 1969 Cult, July 26, 2019
For $2 Million, a Manson Family Murder House Could Be Yours, July 19, 2019
Cult of Personality: Ties to the Fringe, June 13, 2019 (Wrote script, article & did voiceover in the video)
How an Ex-Cult Member Wrote a Movie About Being in the Manson Family, May 10, 2019
Manson Family Associate Bobby Beausoleil Recommended for Parole, January 4, 2019
New Manson Doc Goes Inside Spahn Ranch, September 17, 2018
'Wild Wild Country': Is the Subject of Netflix Doc Really a Sex Cult?, April 10, 2018
Charles Manson Funeral Held in California, March 20, 2018
Charles Manson: Inside the Fight Over the Cult Leader's Remains, March 6, 2018
'The Community': Five Things We Know About the Fringe Christian Sect, February 12, 2018
Young Charlie: Inside Hit Manson Podcast, December 1, 2017
Inside New Memoir of Life Inside Manson Family, November 2, 2017.
New Manson Family Memoir: What We Learned, November 1, 2017.
American Cult: 5 Spiritual Groups That Went Too Far, September 12, 2017.
R. Kelly: Was He Really Leading a Cult?, July 19, 2017.
Cult or Commune? How Utopian Communities Turn Dangerous, November 10, 2016
History of Public Health, Hygiene & Bathrooms
CityLab
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Home Office, June 10, 2020
How Infectious Disease Defined the American Bathroom, April 10, 2020
Remembering the Dining Fad of ‘Pizza & Pipes,’ January 18, 2019
The Glamorous, Sexist History of Women’s Restroom Lounges, December 3, 2018
How the Tuberculosis Epidemic Influenced Modernist Architecture, October 30, 2018
America's Obsession with Restaurant Food Safety Dates Back to 1899, February 3, 2016
Architectural Digest
Home Health Trends That Were Ultimately Debunked, June 29, 2020
How Previous Epidemics Impacted Home Design, March 31, 2020
Architecture & Design
Architectural Digest
These Forward-Thinking Utopias Impacted Design in Major Ways, August 4, 2020
Why I Love the Cheap Old Houses Instagram Account, July 3, 2020
The Sitcoms That Changed the Way We Decorate Our Homes, May 12, 2020
There Are Two Types of People: Those Who Make Their Bed, and Those Who Don’t, April 24, 2020
Popular Culture: Sideshow, Vaudeville, Television
The Atlantic
How The Good Place Goes Beyond the Trolley Problem, October 21, 2017.
The Tuberculosis Hospital That Treated America's Vaudeville Stars, May 16, 2017.
When Baseball Players Were Vaudeville Stars, April 6, 2017
The 'Child Hatchery' of Coney Island, October 29, 2015
Rolling Stone
The Sideshow Must Go On: Inside The 60-Year Career of Conjoined Twins Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, July 17, 2020
Inside S-Town's Tattoo Therapy: BDSM or Self-Harm?, April 11, 2017.
Lizzie Borden: Why a 19th-Century Murder Still Fascinates Us, August 4, 2016
CNN
Perfect Format for Enduring a Shutdown: A 22-Minute Sitcom, April 30, 2020
The Three Subversive Messages of Schitt’s Creek, January 8, 2020
Vulture
A Look Back at Alex Trebek’s Best Non-Jeopardy! TV Work, November 11, 2020
Pacific Standard
Why It Matters that 'Anne with an E' Had a Period Episode, May 22, 2017.
Marie Claire
The Sexist Stigma of Daytime TV, February 14, 2017
Bitch Media
What 'The Golden Girls' Taught Me About Bioethics, September 14, 2015
America's Forgotten Female Astronauts, November 25, 2015
The Advocate
Why The Golden Girls Never Lost Its Luster, September 8, 2015
Refinery29
The Establishment
The 'Golden Girls' Boyfriend Quiz, September 3, 2016.
'Sesame Street' Was My Strange & Surprising Introduction to Bioethics, July 30, 2016.
Why Lady Elaine Fairchilde was my First Feminist Role Model, July 17, 2016
Politics & Elections
Rolling Stone
He Was Assigned to Cover a Joint Session of Congress. The MAGA Mob Had Other Plans, January 9, 2021
Grief Is the Unofficial Theme of the Biden Campaign, And That’s Exactly What We Need, August 24, 2020
Thai King Strips New Consort of Title for ‘Disobedience,’ October 21, 2019
Pictures of the Thai King’s Consort Broke the Internet—But What’s a Consort?, August 29, 2019
Teen Vogue
You Can’t Call Yourself Pro-Life if You Ignore COVID-19 Measures, October 22, 2020
CNN
Why Turnout for Trump Is a Major Blow to Public Health, November 5, 2020
Playboy
We’re Not Going Back, August 19, 2019
Crime
Rolling Stone
Breaking Down the Harvey Weinstein Verdict, February 24, 2020
Robert Durst Murder Trial Begins in Los Angeles, February 11, 2020
Virgin Islands Suit Alleges Jeffrey Epstein Trafficked Girls and Women Through 2008, January 17, 2020
Rodney King Might Be Innocent, But He’s Being Executed on Wednesday, November 15, 2019
What’s Going on With Jeffrey Epstein’s Autopsy?, October 31, 2019
What It’s Like When a Relationship With a Psychiatrist Goes Terribly Wrong, June 11, 2019
Lizzie Borden: Why a 19th-Century Murder Still Fascinates Us, August 4, 2016
Refinery29
Fusion
What to say (and not say) to people who have been sexually assaulted, September 21, 2016