The Guardian • September 2023 ‘They’re big, bad bullies’: New York’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium Is cricket truly ready to expand in the United States?
Fast Company • August 2023 Uber and Lyft are playing chicken with lawmakers—and the rideshare giants keep winning Why don’t localities stand their ground against rideshare companies?
The Guardian • August 2023 New York is building the world’s tallest jail in Chinatown. Can anyone stop it? A brutal symbol of incarceration, or the sign of an improving justice system?
Fast Company • August 2023 Private prison company GEO pivoted to tech, and it’s raking in hundreds of millions Rights advocates say the electronic monitoring program is really a kind of “e-carceration."
The Guardian • August 2023 ‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’ "People need to survive. And we’re not going anywhere."
The Guardian • July 2023 ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol The bills’ supporters say there’s nothing to worry about.
The Guardian • July 2023 $7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs The videos borrow tactics honed for years by online erotic workers.
Fast Company • July 2023 A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid A viral video becomes a lesson about the grim economics of gig work.
Curbed • July 2023 New York’s first Narcan vending machine Is working In Brownsville, the city’s latest experiment in harm reduction has already stopped overdoses.
Fast Company • June 2023 Exclusive: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports AI-ethics advocates say there’s evidence the program is already violating travelers’ consent.
The Guardian • June 2023 ‘Any mistake can take your life’: the immigrant women working construction in New York Why more immigrant women are training to be construction workers — despite the danger.
The Guardian • June 2023 Four more people just died in an e-bike fire. If nothing changes, they won’t be the last After yet another deadly lithium battery fire, why isn't more being done to prevent them?
Fast Company • June 2023 Could a new law pry open the black boxes of social media giants? PATA could force social media platforms to hand over data about their inner workings.
Fast Company • June 2023 Ron DeSantis’ deepfakes of Trump and Fauci are a kind of ‘fascist realism’ Deepfakes like these reinforce a grim new reality.
The Guardian • May 2023 Will America’s first ‘right to sleep outside’ actually help unhoused people? It leaves out the one right that would actually solve homelessness: housing.
Fast Company • May 2023 I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
The Guardian • May 2023 ‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded How did Jordan Neely fall through New York City's sprawling safety net?
Fast Company • May 2023 Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
The Guardian • May 2023 ‘I thought they’d kill us’: how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto Rican island For 60+ years, the US Navy fired explosives on Vieques. Today, the islanders still suffer the devastating consequences.