history
How A 1980s AIDS Support Group Changed The Internet
OneZero, December 2020
The Forgotten Origins of Queer Media
Columbia Journalism Review, November 2020
The King of AIDS Treatments Is Turning to COVID-19
The Atlantic, April 2021
How 1970s VCR Dating Paved the Way for Tinder and Hinge
Vox, February 2021
Life in a Four-Mom Family
Slate, November 2019
The Strange History of Accidental Gay Marriage
Lapham's Quarterly, June 2019
Finding Asexuality in the Archives
Slate, March 2020
The "Born This Way" Myth
Buzzfeed Reader, June 2019
amazon & retail
How Amazon sellers are getting Silicon Valley-ified
Modern Retail, January 2021
Inside Walmart’s army of employee TikTokers
Modern Retail, December 2020
The TikTokers building Amazon product recommendation empires
Modern Retail, January 2021
Amazon’s opaque editorial recommendations ecosystem
Modern Retail, February 2021
tech
The Mortician Will Stream You Now
The New York Times, April 2020
Peak Newsletter? That Was 80 Years Ago
WIRED, September 2020
The Digital Colonialism Behind .io and .nu
WIRED, February 2020
Death Tech Has No Rules—Yet
WIRED, January 2020
politics
The Rewriting of MLK Day
Vox, January 2020
Where Do All the Unused Gift Cards Go?
The Atlantic, August 2019
No One Really Knows What to Do with All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
The Atlantic, February 2019
The Funeral Directors Deployed to America's Deadliest Disasters
Gizmodo, February 2019
economics
The Ice Cream Music Monopoly
The Hustle, October 2020
Why We Speak Starbucks
The Economist, July 2020
How to Invent a Steak
The Hustle, July 2020
The Small Town Printing Its Own Currency
The Hustle, June 2020
everything else
Life and Death Online
Hazlitt, March 2018
The Booming Business of Luxury Chicken Diapers
The Outline, July 2018
The Great American Tradition of Beard Panics
Vox, March 2020
Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance
Electric Literature, May 2018