Articles
- `I literally can't stop.` The descent of a modern sports fan
A sobering snapshot of what being a sports fan can look like in this fledgling era of app-based betting.
October 2024 - The Athletic - Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.
As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products.
September 2024 - Ny Times - America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny
Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.
September 2024 - NY Times - The Junkification of American Life
Why we want the wrong things.
September 2024 - NY Times - Want to convince a conspiracy theory believer they’re wrong? Don’t start with the truth
People who believe conspiracies about the Trump assassination attempt or buy into QAnon are often seeking purpose or belonging — truth is beside the point.
July 2024 - LA Times - When Yuppies Ruled
Louis Menand reviews Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
July 2024 - New Yorker - I Gave Myself a Month to Make One New Friend. How Hard Could That Be?
Americans have become terrible at forming and keeping friendships. But there must be somebody out there who wants to grab a burrito with me.
July 2024 - Esquire - After 12 Years of Reviewing Restaurants, I’m Leaving the Table
Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.
July 2024 - NY Times - A Surf Legend's Long Ride
For Jock Sutherland, being hailed as the world's best surfer was just one phase in an unlikely life.
June 2024 - New Yorker - The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
Benjamin B. Bolger has spent his whole life amassing academic degrees. What can we learn from him?
June 2024 - Ny Times - To Stop A Shooter
Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?
March 2024 - The Atlantic - The Ramen Lord
At Chicago’s buzziest new restaurant, Mike Satinover is obsessed with one goal: making the perfect bowl of Japanese noodles.
March 2024 - Chicago Mag - Ghosts on the Glacier
Decades after the unexplained deaths of two American climbers in Argentina, a camera belonging to one of them was found in the snow. The film held astonishing images, but the mystery endures.
December 2023 - NY Times - When Your Gym Spotter Turns Out to Be a Scammer
Conman Rick Dugo targeted his victims in gyms until one man finally helped take him down.
October 2023 - Men's Health - Salt Life Is Coming to a Beach Near You
First, Salt Life was a tattoo. Then it became a logo. Now it is a lifestyle brand with plans to open stores from coast to coast.
May 2023 - NY Times - How an Alleged Con Man Tore Apart One of the Nineties’ Biggest Bands
Live had some of the alt-rock era's hugest hits, but in recent years the former bandmates have been bitterly divided by legal drama and interpersonal conflict
February 2023 - Rolling Stone - Your stuff is actually worse now
How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.
January 2023 - Vox - Recipeasly promised to fix online recipes. After critics called it theft, the site shut down.
Recipeasly allowed users to strip stories and ads from online recipes, but the food blogging community cried foul.
March 2021 - Washington Post - AA Gill: “More life with your kids, more life with your friends, more life spent on earth — but only if you pay”
AA Gill used to think that being an NHS patient was like travelling second class on a train, grittier than first class, but in the end everyone ended up at the same destination. But in his farewell piece he tells of his discovery of a drug not available on the NHSAA.
December 2016 - The Sunday Times