Selected Writing

“This Town Doesn’t Want to be a Climate Experiment,” with Amanda Simson. Grist. December 10, 2024.

“Under the Sea: Running Tide’s Ill-fated Adventure in Carbon Removal,” with Amanda Simson. Canary Media. September 19, 2024.

“Climate Journalism Enters the Solutions Era,” The Columbia Journalism Review. April 21, 2021)

“War All the Time? Climate Reporters Weigh Coverage Quality against Quantity,” The Columbia Journalism Review. (May 29, 2019).

“How Teen Activists Get (and Make) Climate News,” The Columbia Journalism Review (May 1, 2019). 

“The Dirty Secret of the World’s Plan to Avert Climate Disaster,” Wired. (December 10, 2017). 

“The Cost of Activism in the Trump Era: Your Job,” The New Republic, May 2017

“Undoing the Clean Power Plan Will Be a Legal Nightmare,” The New Republic, March 2017

“Why Republicans Should Be Scared of Town Hall Protestors,” Vice, February 2017

”At Scott Pruitt's Confirmation Hearing, Science Will Be On Trial,” The New Republic, January 2017

“Donald Trump and Freshman Essay,” Guernica, September 2016

”Sex, Lies, and Young Women's Theater,” Guernica, July 2016

”Donald Trump and Freshman Essay,” Guernica, September 2016

“The Trouble with Renting a Womb,” The Guardian (April 28. 2016)

“The Surrogacy Cycle,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, March 2016

“Revisiting Resolutions,” Buzzfeed, January 2014

”The Elf Diaries,” Guernica, December 2013

”The Meme As Meme,” Nautilus, September 2013

“Control Desk for the Neural Switchboard,” with Carl Schoonover, The New York Times. May 17, 2011. p. D1

“A Natural History of the Brain,” Science, December 2010

”Going Green in Mumbai,” The New York Times, June 2010

“How To Be A Bollywood Star (O.K., An Extra),” The New York Times, April 2010

”Flower Power at Mumbai Market,” The New York Times, March 2010

”Sugar and Spice in Mumbai's Desserts,” The New York Times, February 2010

”Under the Stars, Shisha Smoke and Tasty Bites,” The New York Times, January 2010

“The Good Essay.” Writing on the Edge 19 (Fall 2008): 68-74.