The Low-Stakes Magic of Trivia
[The Atlantic, 08 April 2023]
The most-trivial weekend in America is in Wisconsin
Portrait of a Congressman
[Oprah Daily, 11 November 2022]
Ritchie Torres wants to be normal
Breakdancing is about to get its Olympic moment
[Morning Brew, 26 August 2022]
Breaking badass
29 Days in February That Created Black History Month
[Esquire, 01 February 2022]
America’s everyday racism
The Urgent Question Gay Asian-American Men Are Asking Themselves
[Esquire, 30 June 2021]
A renaissance of agency, identity, and anxiety
Asian American masculinity is increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping.
[The Washington Post, 21 June 2021]
Asian-American men find their flex
There’s a score to quantify childhood trauma. Some health experts want you to know yours.
[The Washington Post, 14 May 2021]
Mental health has an ACE up its sleeve
A Pandemic Chat With Nadine Burke Harris, California’s First-Ever Surgeon General
[Vogue, 13 April 2021]
America’s stress reliever-in-chief
UCLA and Other Schools Are Studying Kindness as an Antidote to a Cruel World
[Los Angeles Magazine, December 2020]
"It changes your brain. It changes your gene expression."
How A Cranky 77-Year-Old Communist from Nicaragua Saved L.A.’s Most Unconventional Church
[Los Angeles Magazine, June 2020]
Laity in red
Chick-fil-A is trying to distract you
[CNN, 19 November 2019]
What do bigots become when they bite their tongues?
A queer teen fought his bully. There’s nothing to applaud here.
[The Washington Post, 12 November 2019]
The cost of catharsis
Coming out used to be about freeing yourself. Now it’s about placating everyone else.
[The Washington Post, 11 October 2019]
The tyranny of telling your truth
A Black Immigrant Woman Is Now The Most Powerful Health Official In California
[Vice, 18 July 2019]
Nadine Burke Harris fights toxic stress
The American Gay Bar Is Down, But Don’t Count It Out Just Yet
[Bloomberg Businessweek, 28 June 2019]
50 years after Stonewall and 10 years after Grindr
What Happened When We Started a Feminism Club at Our Catholic Boys School
[New York Magazine, 27 February 2019]
"Isn’t that the point of education?"
Artificial concern for people in pain won't stop suicide. Radical empathy might.
[The Washington Post, 15 June 2018]
Suicide is 250 percent more common than murder
Junot Díaz was an awful man. Who is he now?
[CNN, 08 May 2018]
Reckoning must give way to redemption, or else what good is it?
Facebook doesn’t care if you find love. It just wants you to spend more time on the site.
[The Washington Post, 02 May 2018]
Data as dowry
Meet Trump’s Pennsylvania Supporters
[The Washington Post, 24 August 2016]
Stop caricaturing his fans
Your Sculpted Pecs Are Worthless
[Vice, 26 May 2016]
The problem of facade bod
Investing in the Awesome, No Strings Attached
[The New York Times, 19 June 2015]
$1,000 a month to any New Yorker with an awesome idea
Build a Monument to the Future on Roosevelt Island
[The New Observer, 03 February 2014]
Return of the Wonder City
A Salute Not to the Yankees, but to Their Logo
[The New York Times, 01 October 2013]
Talking through my hat
The Capital Fellows
[Out, May 2010]
In D.C., they're painting the town pink
Who is the Legendary Fesh?
[Vulture, 26 March 2010]
Everybody is somebody sometime
The Black Athletes Who Don't Play Basketball
[The Awl, 11 March 2010]
The Tiger Woods of everything
The Birth of Slick
[ESPN The Magazine, 30 June 2008]
Blood, sweat and olive oil
Thread Counts, Yo
[The New York Times, 13 November 2005]
New Yorkers think they're tough (they're not)