pasadena, california, united states
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Claim your profileReported for weeklies/dailies. Moved to D.C. to cover campaigns. Jumped to the ex-USSR, then south Asia, then the Middle East to write for The NYT Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Harper's, GQ, W, etc. In 2013, Basic Books published my book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union. Then pivoted from print to digital video and launched Stateless. Produced one-offs and series for CNE, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, boing boing, HuffPo and other sites. Then pivoted back to print, covering the intersection of entertainment and the 2020 Democratic primary, mostly for Vanity Fair. Then segued into the post-legacy media space, Substacks, etc. -- winding up, finally, at Common Sense aka The FP.






Master Of Arts, German, Greek at University Of ChicagoGraduated: 1999
Bachelors, Classics, Political Science at Middlebury CollegeGraduated: 1994