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		<title>Wilt/Nixon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
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		<title>WINNER: Best Magazine Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Demagogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A profile in GQ of the alt.right's most surprising survivor.]]></description>
		
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		<title>WINNER: Major News Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What's behind the advice sold by advocates for Truth &#038; Reconciliation Commissions? In this award-winning deep dive for Mother Jones, Peter Keating and I reveal the conflicts-of-interest and agendas driving the far-flung Truth &#038; Reconciliation Complex.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Return Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 03:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wonder why the tennis world hates Maria Sharapova so much? Read my behind-the-scenes look into her comeback from a drug suspension, and why what worked on the court backfired in the court of public opinion.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The King&#8217;s Last Lap</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1997, the only King of Nascar, was reinventing himself as a politician and pitchman. ]]></description>
		
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