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.
What's behind the advice sold by advocates for Truth & 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 & Reconciliation Complex.
In this chronicle of the struggles of African Americans to play tennis in the segregated South, a five-year-old novice meets a doctor who changes history by building a clay court in his backyard. Will someone please make this into a movie?!
