Essays

• The Golden Age of White Collar Crime (Highline)
• Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong (Highline)
• Generation Screwed (Highline)
• The Afterlife of Big Ideas and Three Things I Learned From Visiting My Old High School (Pacific Standard)
• The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness (Highline / Huffington Post)
• How Corporations, Activists, and Politicians Turned Human Rights into Meaningless Babble (Foreign Policy)
• The Untouchables: Why It’s Getting Harder to Stop Corporate Human Rights Abuses (Foreign Policy)
• How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give $45 Billion to Charity (Highline / Huffington Post)
• The Myth of the Ethical Shopper (Highline / Huffington Post)
• How (Not) to Save the World (The New Republic)
• Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country? (The New Republic)
• What Dhaka, The Traffic Capital of the World, Can Teach the U.S. (The New Republic)
• Why Does Yogurt Cost More in Zimbabwe Than in New York City? (The New Republic)
• Why is Zambia So Poor? (Pacific Standard)
• How to Reduce Corruption—And Lose an Election

Personal Essays

• This is How It Ended (Longreads)
• The Zone (The Billfold)
• How My Parents Accidentally Got Caught Up in the Iranian Revolution (Slate)
• What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies (The Billfold)
• An Open Letter To The Girl I Pretended To Have A Crush On In Eighth Grade
• The Time My Landlord Ratted Me Out to the Cops (The Billfold)
• Letting Stress Win: A Commencement Speech (The Billfold)
• I Was A Teenage Narc
• How to Become a Gay Prostitute in Denmark
• The 10 Times I Met My Landlord

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