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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…

Oct 13, 2019 •

Humans in the Loop

Oct 9, 2019 •

“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…

Oct 4, 2019 •

How ICE finds its targets

Friends, colleagues, strangers who signed up for my mailing list and must now suffer the consequences:

Oct 4, 2019 •

February 2019

From the archives (London Review of Books; Feb.

Feb 7, 2019 •

July 2018

From the archives (Outside Magazine; Jul.

Jul 18, 2018 •

November 2016

The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz

From the archives (New York Times Sunday Review; Nov.

Nov 19, 2016 •

October 2016

Should We See Everything a Cop Sees?

From the archives (New York Times Magazine; Oct.

Oct 23, 2016 •

June 2016

The Exxon Investigation

From the archives (Rolling Stone; Jun.

Jun 30, 2016 •

January 2016

Breaking the Ice

From the archives (Audubon Magazine; Jan.

Jan 1, 2016 •

October 2015

Sebastião Salgado Has Seen the Forest

From the archives (Smithsonian Magazine; Oct.

Oct 1, 2015 •

June 2015

Canada’s Little Park of Wonders

A century ago on the flanks of Mount Field in Canada’s Yoho National Park, Charles Doolittle Walcott, then secretary of the Smithsonian and one of the…

Jun 21, 2015 •

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