I tracked down the Romanian creator of one of the most ubiquitous disinformation sites during the 2016 presidential election.

This opinion column calls on the City of Sacramento to declare a climate emergency.

In a 2017 profile of Rep. Ro Khanna for New York Magazine's Intelligencer vertical, I explored the Silicon Valley congressman's positions on antitrust issues.

A personal essay about the challenges and ironies of trying to vacation sustainably.

This 2016 piece looks at the controversy surrounding a tech conference's decision to invite an avowed white supremacist to speak.

My scoop from 2011 on students getting married in order to qualify for larger financial aid packages.

I wrote about a 2017 "secret meeting" of tech employees trying to organize in anticipation of actions by the Trump administration.

This piece explains some of the lasting impacts of drought in California.

While some fake-news websites are just chasing profits, it's clear a subset of them have been doing something more akin to content marketing, using made-up headlines as a form of persuasion. The phenomenon raises uncomfortable legal questions for Facebook, the venue of choice for fake-news purveyors. The social network has proven to be a zone where campaign finance rules are difficult if not nearly impossible to enforce, at least from outside. Nevertheless, the sites described by The Intercept

I searched court documents to find the identities of individuals responsible for evicting 40 largely low-income tenants from a local apartment building.

The structures have sat vacant for the better part of two decades. Vacant, that is, except for a few bats and other things that squeak and live in the dark.