This essay abt going to a New Years Pitbull show in Miami immediately after being released from prison is one of the more beautiful things I’ve read in a while cntraveler.com/story/after-pr…

I’m honored to be a finalist for the 2024 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for my coverage of Biden’s Gaza policy

Thank you to those who’ve taken risks to share information & analysis the public deserves, to my incredible editors HuffPost & to my audience. Keep reading!
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Texas prison cells regularly reach 110 degrees — the people incarcerated inside them are suing to cap temperatures at 85 degrees, which most of us would find unbearable texasobserver.org/prison-heat-la…

Absolutely wild. The terms of NY’s dispensary program piles a ton of financial risk on small retailers — many of them victims of the war on drugs — while the private equity firm providing the start-up capital gets a FIFTEEN percent return on $50 million guaranteed by the state.

Jesus of Nazareth, 33 A.D., death recorded

periodic reminder that I am freelancing now and (mostly always) looking for work. i have experience doing all sorts of editing & writing. in the past few months, i've done some editorial/content work beyond journalism, so hit me up for your commercial needs too. DMs open!

I dare somebody to write a contemporary novel without using MFA voice, where nobody is keenly observed from a cool remove.

Honored to have been awarded the Wilbur Award of Excellence for our @huffpost story about Muslim women leading the washing & shrouding of bodies in their communities. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again — Muslim women are my inspiration for all the unseen work they do.

I spoke to Ansa Tabassum, the Muslim valedictorian who had her speech invitation revoked. USC had accommodated big names like Barack Obama and Milo Yiannopoulos before on campus. Why not for their very own student? Our interview huffpost.com/entry/usc-vale…

a huge congrats to my colleague and pal Dave Jamieson on this well-deserved win

if you haven't read the series, make time — it is wild

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Extremely cool to be a Deadline Club Award finalist in Feature Reporting!

& even cooler that my wonderful HuffPost colleague Molly Redden is a finalist for Enterprise Reporting! deadlineclub.org/2024-awards-fi…

I'm thrilled to be a The Deadline Club awards finalist along with my colleague Christopher Mathias! deadlineclub.org/2024-awards-fi…

Missouri executed Brian Dorsey despite pleas from 70+ correctional officers, a judge who upheld the death sentence on appeal, several jurors, and some victim family members to spare his life huffpost.com/entry/missouri…

someone in your group chat is the Lauren Oyler of not knowing who Renata Adler is

Read my remarkable colleague Akbar Shahid Ahmed's extensive, painstaking interviews with two senior leaders of Hamas, where he presses them on the group's Oct. 7 attacks on civilians and its vision for the future of Israel-Palestine.

A new report from Southern Equality shows that families of transgender youth in the South have to travel extreme distances and shoulder enormous financial costs in order for their kids to access gender-affirming care
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SCOOP: With the US already banned from funding UNRWA for another 11 months, Josh Gottheimer has begun lobbying fellow lawmakers to extend the prohibition – despite famine in Gaza, other countries restoring donations + many fellow Dems defending the agency.
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My exclusive revealing a dire internal warning on Gaza from US government experts to the White House, State Department & more is now leading HuffPost:

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Today is an anniversary that I hoped would never come. Our friend Evan has been held hostage in a Russian prison for exactly a year. He should not spend a second longer in his cell. Wrote about this grim day for POLITICO Magazine #FreeEvan Free Evan Gershkovich
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