I'm thrilled to make my debut in Smithsonian Magazine with 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.
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.
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 back yard.
