A selection of articles:
Freelance:
A Causal Link Between Air Pollution and Lower Earnings, The Boston Globe, December 1, 2022
Making the case that air pollution is not merely a public health scourge but also a key driver of economic and racial inequality.
The Strange Case of WhatsApp and the Child-Kidnappers, The Economist / 1843, July 30, 2021
An Economist magazine longread on how a policewoman in Telangana, India, tackled a spate of mob violence tied to rumors spread over WhatsApp. This article won the 2022 Award for Excellence in Technology Reporting from the Society of Publishers in Asia.
The Military’s HIV Policies Are Discriminatory — And Decades Behind the Times, Wash. Post, July 22, 2021
Drawing on my academic work in the Yale Law Journal, I argue that the military’s HIV policies are medically outdated and needlessly discriminatory.
A Pandemic Isn’t the Only Kind of “Catastrophic Risk.” It’s Time to Prepare More Seriously for the Next, Just Security, June 15, 2021
The pandemic has presented the United States with an opportunity to overhaul its approach to existential risks — if it chooses to take it.
Regulating the Art Market Is Good Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, January 14, 2021
The new president can win friends and weaken terrorists at the same time.
Donald Trump’s Efforts to Distort the Census Have Started Back Up, Slate, July 17, 2020
A year after the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the census form, the integrity of the 2020 census is once again under threat.
Will America’s Alliances Survive the Trump Era?, Foreign Policy, July 14, 2020
A review of Mira Rapp-Hooper’s Shields of the Republic, a robust defense of America’s alliance system.
Contingency Planning: Conducting the Census When Knocking on Doors Isn’t Safe, Just Security, April 14, 2020
The challenges of conducting a census during COVID-19, drawing on experience litigating census-related issues.
Can Oman’s New Leader Uphold Sultan Qaboos’s Peaceful Legacy?, Foreign Affairs, January 14, 2020
Could Oman’s struggling economy undermine its role as an independent mediator in the Middle East’s most intractable conflicts?
Is the World Getting Safer?, Foreign Policy, January 12, 2020
New research debunks the theory that wars are becoming less deadly and less frequent.
ExasperaTED, The Times Literary Supplement, October 25, 2017
A review of Daniel W. Drezner's The Ideas Industry, about the transformation of the marketplace of ideas.
When Every Opinion is as Good as Any Other: On “The Death of Expertise”, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 9, 2017
The distrust of expertise is part of a revolt against elites that has characterized the global rise of populism.
Workers Are People: The Economics of the Immigration Debate, Los Angeles Review of Books, December 10, 2016
A review of George Borjas' We Wanted Workers, unpacking the economics of migration.
Adrift in the Present: On Mark Lilla’s “The Shipwrecked Mind”, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 23, 2016
Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind examines what it means to be a political reactionary.
Making Sense of Life After War, NewYorker.com, October 20, 2016
Tahmima Anam's novels follow three generations of a family facing the troubled legacy of Bangladesh's bloody war of independence.
Sex, pigeons and vengeful massage therapists, the London Review of Books blog, August 8, 2016
The best excuses athletes have offered after failing drug tests.
Want to Save the World? Try Using Cold Hard Cash. The New Republic, May 24, 2016
Direct cash transfers to the global poor are shaking up international aid—and getting pushback.
Implicit Bias, the London Review of Books blog, April 7, 2016
How Women Also Know Stuff responds to gender inequality in political science.
The Fast Lane: NASCAR Driver Renee Dupuis, Connecticut Magazine, February 2014
A profile of Dupuis, a champion racer.
The Wall Street Journal (Contributing Writer, Fall 2013–Summer 2014):
Indian Factory Protects Against Vote Fraud with Top Secret Ink Recipe, May 11, 2014
In the heart of Mysore, a small factory manufactures ink essential to elections in the world's largest democracy.
U.N. Campaign Targets Open Defecation in India, April 10, 2014
"Take Poo to the Loo" prompts giggles—and anger—from public health advocates.
Building Trust with Muslims to Beat Polio, March 26, 2014
How India defied the odds to rid itself of the infectious scourge.
India's First Gay Magazine Struggles to Survive, February 3, 2014
Bombay Dost's story mirrors the trajectory of gay rights in India.
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The Boston Globe (Reporting Intern, Summer 2013):
Chinatown residents fear being pushed out, A1, September 7, 2013
As Chinatown attracts more developers and rents increase, locals are forced to move.
City seizes control of historic Mattapan farm, August 11, 2013
Fowler-Clark farm, possibly the oldest remaining farmhouse in the city, falls into disrepair.
Oyster thieves striking in Cape Cod, August 10, 2013
To outsiders, it seems a strange, old-fashioned crime.
Doorman on Newbury Street since 1947 retires, August 8, 2013
Norman Pashoian can map most of his life's significant events onto his years working at the Taj.
Prouty Garden at Boston Children's may soon be no more, A1, August 1, 2013
Hospital expansion plans threaten a treasured oasis for patients and their families.
More here.