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How to Reverse-Engineer an ICE Investigation?
A number of people have emailed since my ICE story was published in The New York Times Magazine to ask how I was able to learn who the deportation…
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Humans in the Loop
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“We’re not just a public-safety agency. We’re very much a data-sharing agency.”
One takeaway from my investigation into ICE’s investigators for The New York Times Magazine is how states that offer driver’s licenses to undocumented…
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How ICE finds its targets
Friends, colleagues, strangers who signed up for my mailing list and must now suffer the consequences:
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February 2019

Smoked Out
From the archives (London Review of Books; Feb.
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July 2018

Forever Young
From the archives (Outside Magazine; Jul.
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November 2016

The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
From the archives (New York Times Sunday Review; Nov.
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October 2016

Should We See Everything a Cop Sees?
From the archives (New York Times Magazine; Oct.
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June 2016

The Exxon Investigation
From the archives (Rolling Stone; Jun.
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January 2016

Breaking the Ice
From the archives (Audubon Magazine; Jan.
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October 2015

Sebastião Salgado Has Seen the Forest
From the archives (Smithsonian Magazine; Oct.
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June 2015

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