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Features/Investigations

This Amarillo Woman Devoted Years to Maintaining America's Nukes. She's Paid a Hefty Price

Texas Monthly, December 2025

Generation Why

Slate, April 2025​​

What's wrong with downtown Dallas? 

Texas Monthly, February 2025

​How wolves explain America’s urban-rural divide

The Hustle, January 2025​​​

The rise of exclusive communities in America

The Hustle, October 2024

In Sports-Crazed Kansas City, Stadium Tax Exposes Deep Divisions

Washington Post, April 2024

Would You Take Free Land in Rural America?

The Hustle, January 2022

AT&T's Cowboy Swagger Led to Its Hollywood Misadventure

Texas Monthly, June 2021

“I thought there was a moratorium?” How Texas forgot renters during the pandemic Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 2021

CARES Act was meant to stop COVID-19 evictions. But in Fort Worth, it’s often ignored.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 2020

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Life and Death: The True Cost of Inequality in High School Football

SB Nation, February 2020

The Hard Luck Texas Town That Bet On Bitcoin and Lost

WIRED, July 2019

A New Pipeline Through the Hill Country is Pitting Pipeline Companies Against Landowners

Texas Monthly​​​​, May 2019

The Last Five Glamour Shots Locations in the United States

The New York Times, May 2019

Inside Philly Trump Country 

The Philadelphia Citizen, February 2016

Moses Malone, Darryl Dawkins and the Scary Trend That's Killing So Many Legendary NBA Bigs

Billy Penn, October 2015

Short Features

Downtown Dallas Faces a Reckoning 

Texas Monthly

Is Domino's Pizza Inflation Proof?

The Hustle

How the Weirdest Store at the Mall Survived the Retail Apocalypse

The Hustle

How the Power Suit Lost its Power

Vox

A cultural look at why suits aren't popular anymore.

Why Men Started Wearing Female Athlete Jerseys

GQ

Sabrina Ionescu and the USWNT have created a new phenomenon.

Can Car-Crazy Dallas Learn to Love Bikes?

City Lab

After a disastrous experiment with dockless bike sharing, the famously auto-centric Texas city is trying to be more friendly to bicycles and pedestrians.

How State Abortion Laws Could Cost Republicans the 2020 Election

Fortune

The victories for anti-abortion activists could be short-lived if abortion becomes a major election issue.

Deep in The Desert in West Texas, a Spring-Fed Swimming Pool Beckons

Atlas Obscura

It’s not just a recreational hotspot—it’s also an ecosystem.

The Running Test That Has Tormented Sport's Biggest Stars Turns 50

Runner's World

Kenneth Cooper invented the 12-minute run in 1968; athletes from Pele to Michael Jordan have been hating it since.

Kansas City Privatizes Sidewalks in Rowdy Entertainment District 

Next City

What happens when a private company decides who gets to walk down the street?

Forget Craft Beer, Philly Loves Brandy

Philadelphia Inquirer

The most popular alcohol in Philadelphia is brandy, and it's not even close.

The Secret, Sexist History of America's First Soccer League 

Slate

Long before women played in the World Cup, they were playing in a professional league in St. Louis.

The Glasnost Bowl and Russia's First Ever Football Game

Slate

USC and Illinois were set to play a game in the Soviet Union, until it fell apart in the most Soviet way imaginable.

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