I edited essays at The Atlantic and The New York Times. Some clips:
“George Floyd Was Also a Father” By Clint Smith
The Atlantic
June 15, 2020
“I’m Not Ready to Perform,” By Will Butler
The Atlantic
April 19, 2021
“I Wanted to Find Humility in Hunter Biden’s Book,” By Ana Marie Cox
The Atlantic
May 8, 2021
“The U.S. and China Finally Get Real With Each Other,” By Thomas Wright
The Atlantic
March 21, 2021
“Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better,” By Karleigh Frisbie Brogan
The Atlantic
April 18, 2020
“The Vaccine Donations Aren’t Enough,” By Chelsea Clinton and Achal Prabhala
The Atlantic
June 20, 2021
“Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.” By Imani Perry
The Atlantic
June 15, 2020
“A Warning From a Democrat in a Red State,” By Silas House
The Atlantic
January 3, 2021
“I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction,” Tom Nichols
The Atlantic
May 8, 2020
“I Will Miss What I Wanted to Lose,” By Rosanne Cash
The Atlantic
May 27, 2020
“What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-racist Teaching,” By Jarvis R. Givens
The Atlantic
May 21, 2021
“What I Learned When I Rented My Parents’ Former House as an AirBnB,” By Thad Russell
The Atlantic
August 29, 2021
“The Relentlessness of Black Grief,” By Marissa Evans
The Atlantic
September 27, 2020
“The Flaw At the Center of Purity Culture,” By Angie Hong
The Atlantic
March 28, 2021
“To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork,” By Tiya Miles
The Atlantic
June 8, 2021
“The Blob Meets the Heartland,” By William J. Burns
The Atlantic
September 24, 2021
“Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President,” By Tom Nichols
The Atlantic
May 25, 2020
“America Will Have to Reckon With Its Cynicism About Afghanistan,” By Elliot Ackerman
The New York Times
May 16, 2021
“The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes,” By Julian Brave NoiseCat
The Atlantic
July 12, 2020
“Immigrants Have Always Known the Pain of Social Distancing,” By Ariel Dorfman
The Atlantic
May 2, 2020
“When Movements Are Guilty of What They Are Trying to Challenge,” By Alicia Garza
The Atlantic
October 19, 2021
“Female Athletes Need to See Puberty as a Power, Not a Weakness,” By Alexi Pappas
The Atlantic
January 10, 2021
“Being Trans Shouldn’t Exclude Me From Health Laws,” By Carter Sickels
The Atlantic
June 20, 2020
“How Trump Grew His Support Among Latinos,” By Geraldo L. Cadava
The Atlantic
November 9, 2020
“What Should We Know About the President’s Health?” By Dhruv Khullar
The Atlantic
March 20, 2020
“My Hometown Is Being Ravaged by the Coronavirus,” By Xinyan Yu
The Atlantic
February 5, 2020
“Springtime for Introverts,” By Andrew Ferguson
The Atlantic
March 26, 2020
“We Should All Be Preppers,” By Bradley Garrett
The Atlantic
May 3, 2020
“The Reckoning Will Be Incomplete Without Black Women and Girls,” By Tamara Winfrey-Harris
The Atlantic
June 14, 2020
“Hillbilly Elegy Doesn’t Reflect the Appalachia I Know,” By Cassie Chambers Armstrong
The Atlantic
November 29, 2020
“The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable,” By Dani Alexis Ryskamp
The Atlantic
December 29, 2020
“Rural America Isn’t Ready for a Pandemic,” By Michael R. Brumage
The Atlantic
March 18, 2020
“I Kept Talking to My Rapists,” By Jeannie Vanasco
The Atlantic
February 25, 2020
“A Ramadan and Eid in Isolation,” By Uzma Jalaluddin
The Atlantic
May 16, 2020
“I Miss My Grandchildren,” By Robin Marantz Henig
The Atlantic
May 28, 2020
“If You Want a Marriage of Equals, Then Date as Equals,” By Ellen Lamont
The Atlantic
February 14, 2020
“Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater, but You Probably Didn’t Notice,” By Silas House
The Atlantic
February 23, 2020
“I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To.” By Tim Kreider
The Atlantic
May 30, 2021
“The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic,” By Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris
The Atlantic
July 12, 2020
“What the Pandemic Has Done for Dating,” By Sara Konrath
The Atlantic
December 31, 2020
“If the Hardiest Species Are Boiled Alive, What Happens to Humans?” By Stephen Leahy
The Atlantic
July 31, 2021
“The One-Size-Fits-All Narrative of Your 20s Needs to Change,” By Rainesford Stauffer
The Atlantic
June 12, 2021
“The Vaccine Line Is Illogical,” By Gregg Gonsalves
The Atlantic
February 1, 2021
“How Memoirists Mold the Truth,” By André Aciman
The New York Times
April 6, 2013
“Writing About What Haunts Us,” By Peter Orner
The New York Times
January 12, 2013
“The Trouble With Intentions,” By Verlyn Klinkenborg
The New York Times
September 24, 2020
“A Simple Way to Create Suspense,” By Lee Child
The New York Times
December 8, 2012
“Peering Into the Darkness,” By Joe Hill
The New York Times
October 30, 2014
“The Dual Lives of the Biographer,” By Stacy Schiff
The New York Times
November 24, 2012
“That Would Make a Good Novel” By Lily King
The New York Times
July 28, 2014
“Me, Me, Me, and My Therapist,” By Vivian Conan
The New York Times
January 3, 2020
“No ‘Thomas Crown Affair’,” By Anthony Amore
The New York Times
October 16, 2012