The Botanist Is A Plant!
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I’m thrilled to make my debut in Smithsonian Magazine with this strange but true thriller about the swashbuckling 18th Century naturalist Andre Michaux. Hear a podcast, too.
Magazines
The Demagogue
The indictments of six people who were charged with plotting the Jan. 6 riot in the Capitol sets the stage for this profile in GQ.com. It shows the riot was fifty years in the making — not five months.
Hollywood East, The Sequel: The fight over NC Film
A GOP tax revolt chased the film industry out of North Carolina. I report from Wilmington on the unlikely sequel that's unfolding.
Does “Truth and Reconciliation” Work?
This deep dive into the global Truth & Reconciliation industry, written for Mother Jones Magazine, asks whether the feel-good advice it sells to aggrieved clients can really be trusted, or whether reconciliation is simply a ruse. Co-writer Peter Keating and I pick up the thread on MJ's podcast.
Politico: The Massacre That Spawned The Alt.Right
In 1979, an alliance of Klansmen and neo-Nazis formed in Greensboro, NC. America would never be the same.
Home Court
In this chronicle of the the struggles of African Americans to play tennis in the ...