THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS OF HOMELESSNESS and ACADEMIA’S ABSENCE
For Shawn Pleasants, the descent into homelessness wasn’t so much a plummet as an awful, incomprehensible slide.
Harvard Magazine, May-June 2024
WE HAVE TREATMENTS FOR OPIOID ADDICTION THAT WORK. SO WHY IS THE PROBLEM GETTING WORSE?
The crisis is as bad as ever. It doesn’t have to be.
Vox, February 12, 2024
THE RETURN OF HISTORY
Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country
Harvard Magazine, September-October 2023
THIS BEAUTIFUL MACHINE and A BIOETHICIST’S VIEW
Balancing promise and peril in the the fast-moving field of brain organoids
Harvard Magazine, July-August 2023
TO THE RESCUE and THE WAR IN EUROPE
The urgent work of rescuing endangered scholars.
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2023
THE IRRESISTIBLE ALLISON FEASTER
A life in basketball, so far, for one of the true stars of the game
Harvard Magazine, November-December 2022
FUGITIVE PEDAGOGY
Jarvis Givens and the underground history of black schooling.
Harvard Magazine, March-April 2022
BUILDING THE JUST CITY
From ancient philosophy to modern-day Boston, the search for wisdom and justice in a gritty new film.
Humanities, Winter 2022
THE MYSTERY OF SMELL
COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once obscure field of science.
Harvard Magazine, November-December 2021
RESTORING JUSTICE (This story won an award from CASE.)
An alternative to crime and punishment.
Harvard Magazine, July-August 2021
THE POLITICAL IS PERSONAL
Boston City Council member Andrea Campbell’s story of change, grief, and hope
Princeton Alumni Weekly,Sepbember 2020
FROM NEITHER HERE NOR THERE (This story won a national award from CASE.)
The in-between lives of undocumented young people.
Harvard Magazine, July-August 2020
THE AUTHORITARIAN REFLEX
Pippa Norris on America’s flagging democracy.
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2020
COLOR AND INCARCERATION
The history of a gathering crisis, and the scholar who lived it.
Harvard Magazine, September-October 2019
ROSANNA WARREN’S ODES TO WOUNDEDNESS
A poet reckons with a fractured world.
University of Chicago Magazine, Summer 2019
THE PHYSICIAN POET and BEARING WITNESS
Two stories on compassion and caregiving—and the last friend my father ever made
Harvard Magazine, May-June 2019
THE OPIOIDS EMERGENCY and WHEN OPIOIDS ARE NEEDED
Medicine’s response to an unimaginable public health crisis
Harvard Magazine, March-April 2019
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE OK
Life after the ICU.
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2019
WRITING CRIME INTO RACE
Historian Khalil Muhammad on one of the most pernicious ideas in the American imagination.
Harvard Magazine, July-August 2018
THE MIRAGE OF KNOWLEDGE
Never-Trumper Tom Nichols on the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
Harvard Magazine, March-April 2018
MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
The austere practice of wilderness physicians. (This story won a national award from CASE.)
Harvard Magazine, November-December 2017
ALL AMERICAN
A profile of the late historian Henry Steele Commager.
University of Chicago Magazine, Spring 2017
HOW TO BUILD A KIDNEY
Bioengineer Jennifer Lewis and the quest to create 3-D–printed organs.
Harvard Magazine, January-February 2017
THE LAW PROF, THE JOURNALIST, AND THE CHICAGO POLICE
A crusade against police abuse: decades old, and not nearly over.
ABA Journal, September 2016
MICROBIAL ME
So much of human health, it turns out, depends on the little bugs in our gut.
(This story won a national award from CASE.)
University of Chicago Magazine, July-August 2015
A LIFE AQUATIC
Marine biologist Michael LaBarbera’s classroom is full of great stories and swimming, squirming, snapping wildlife. (This story won a national award from CASE.)
University of Chicago Magazine, March-April 2014
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
Bill Browder was once the biggest capitalist in Russia. After his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was tortured and died in jail, he became one of the Kremlin’s fiercest enemies.
University of Chicago Magazine, May-June 2013
SPELLBOUND
Renaissance scholar Armando Maggi thinks fairy tales have lost their magic.
University of Chicago Magazine, May-June 2012
SCIENCE? FICTION?
For decades, Stanton Friedman has traveled the world with a simple message: UFOs are real.
University of Chicago Magazine, September-October 2011
CLEAR RUN GROCERY
Most evenings, this abandoned grocery store in Sampson County, North Carolina, sits empty. But one Saturday a month, it fills up with pickers and players from all around the Sandhills. And they’re really good.
Our State Magazine, February 2010
TRUE GRIT
Combative Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands.
University of Chicago Magazine, January-February 2010
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
This small, rocky farm in the mountains of North Carolina has been in Walter Harrill’s family for 200 years.
Our State Magazine, August 2008
IF I HAD A BOAT …
After he retired from medicine and moved to the Lake Michigan coast, Stephen Sittler discovered his life’s work.
University of Chicago Magazine, July-August 2008
LONG WAY HOME
Hope and controversy in geneticist Rick Kittles’s DNA database of African American roots.
University of Chicago Magazine, January-February 2008
PICKIN’ IT UP
The Appalachian melodies of banjo player Riley Baugus.
Our State Magazine, September 2007
MIRRORED EMOTION
A basic human impulse, empathy is also a visible neurological phenomenon.
University of Chicago Magazine, April 2006
SERIOUS ABOUT FAMILY
Every year, the Williamses from North Carolina reunite to remember their earliest known ancestor, an enslaved woman named Mountain.
Our State Magazine, March 2006
DUE SOUTH
Next door to the University of Chicago, the Woodlawn neighborhood has been through a lot.
University of Chicago Magazine, February 2006