The New York Times Magazine
“Germs of War” (December 1, 2024)
“The Trip of a Lifetime” My dad always remembered his childhood journey through Europe. Now, with Alzheimer’s claiming his memories, we tried to recreate it. (June 30, 2024)
“Lessons from a Renter’s Utopia” (May 28, 2023 cover story)
“The Man Who Made the Sari Haute” (June 22, 2022)
“Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?” (November 14, 2021 cover story)
+ The Daily Episode: Why is it so hard to buy a house in America right now? (June 21, 2022)
“The Great Wall Street Housing Grab” (March 8, 2020 cover story)
The New Yorker
“Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses” (December 7, 2020 issue)
+ New Yorker Radio Hour segment “The Unhoused House Sitters of Los Angeles” (June 28, 2021)
The Atlantic
“What My Dad Gave His Shop” On the death of small business during the pandemic (December 2, 2020 issue)
“The Shark and the Shrimpers” On the celebrity Texas lawyer whose clients didn’t exist (May 2020 issue)
The New York Review of Books
“How Can We Stop Gun Violence?” (June 10, 2021 issue)
“The Housing Vultures” On the opportunists who made a killing off the subprime mortgage crisis (June 11, 2020 issue)
New York Magazine, The Cut
“The Tinder Hacker” (May 10, 2019)
The New York Times
“How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden”: The U.S. once looked to modular construction as an efficient way to build lots of housing at scale, but Sweden picked up the idea and put it into practice. (Headway, June 8, 2024)
+ NYT Video: “Inside a Factory Where a Home is Made Every 30 Minutes”
“What Do Students at Elite Colleges Really Want” On the students who just want to “sell out.” (Sunday Business, May 22, 2024)
Pop-Up Magazine
“Susie, The Accountant” (live on stage in the Winter 2019 episode of Pop-Up Magazine, touring in seven cities, including the Ace Theater in LA, BAM in Brooklyn. Also at The Aspen Ideas Festival main stage June 7, 2019)
Texas Monthly
“The Talented Mr. Khater.” The hunt for an international conman. (July 2015 issue)
“The Click Clique.” How 27-year-old Amber Venz enabled fashion bloggers to earn up to $80,000 a month through posting shopping links alongside their outfit photos. (September 2014 issue)