I'm thrilled to make a return to Politico Magazine with this look back at the 1968 GOP Convention, and how Richard Nixon recruited the biggest baskebtall star in the world to woo Black voters.
Wilt Chamberlain was pilloried for his embrace of Nixon. But more than fifty years later, voters may be on the cusp of vindicating him.
My debut in Smithsonian Magazine is this strange but true thriller about the swashbuckling 18th Century naturalist Andre Michaux, and the friendship with Thomas Jefferson that nearly ruined him. Hear a podcast, too.