The Latest Way to Create an Isolated Retreat: Buy a Whole Village, New York Times, January 2026
J. Michael Cole on the Best and Worse Cases for Taiwan’s Future, The Wire China, January 2026
Zillow’s CEO Is Ready for Another Slow Year in the US Housing Market, Bloomberg Businessweek, January 2026
The Rise of “Just in Case” MRI, New York Times, November 2025
Fight of the Century, The Wire China, November 2025
Bitter Harvest, The Wire China, November 2025
How Din Tai Fung Became America’s Highest-Earning Restaurant Chain, Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2025
Your Wealthiest Friend Has A Private Concierge, New York Times, October 2025
Dan Wang on China’s ‘Engineering State’ versus America’s ‘Lawyerly Society’, The Wire China, September 2025
The Ironman CEO Wants to Turn the Race Organizer into a Lifestyle Brand, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 2025
The Pizza Oven Start-up With A Plan To Own Every Piece of the Pie, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 2025
The Realist, The Wire China, August 2025
Write, Prey, Fraud, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 2025
The China Hawks’ China Hawk, The Wire China, June 2025
Why Brunello Cucinelli is Well Suited for a Trade War, Bloomberg Businessweek, April 2025
Is DJI Done?, The Wire China, April 2025
Hal Brands on the Axis of Autocracies, The Wire China, March 2025
Geothermal Power is a Climate Moonshot Beneath Our Feet, the New Yorker, March 2025
A Weekend at Napa’s Annual Truffle Festival, San Diego Magazine, February 2025
How Oura’s Smart Ring Bridged the Gap From Tech Bros to Normies, Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2025
The Cosmic Con, Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2025
Would You Get Sick in the Name of Science?, New York Times, January 2025
All In, The Wire China, January 2025
Patients Kept Nearly Dying at a Texas Hospital. No One Suspected an Inside Job., Men’s Health, November 2024
Paul French on the Adventures of an American Future Duchess in Interwar China, The Wire China, November 2024
The Red Mayor Who Could Keep Arizona Blue, Politico Magazine, October 2024
America’s SOS, The Wire China, October 2024
A Local’s Guide to San Diego, Afar, Sept 2024
The Green Leap, The Wire China, August 2024
Securing the Future of Kauai’s Native Flora, San Diego Magazine, June 2024
Access Denied, The Wire China, May 2024
MyPillow Fight, Business Insider, May 2024
How North Korea’s Man in the West Ran Afoul of the FBI, Bloomberg Businessweek, April 2024
The Czars Aligned, The Wire China, March 2024
Choose Freedom, Business Insider, March 2024
Inside a Private Jet Club Where Everything Went Wrong, Bloomberg Businessweek, February 2024
Chairman Mike, The Wire China, January 2024
Software and Tear, The Wire China, September 2023
The Stradivarius Murders, Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2023 (made into a Bloomberg documentary)
James Zimmerman on the Hostage Crisis that Changed China, The Wire China, May 2023
Shaky Signal, The Wire China, May 2023
How To Kill A Fish, San Diego Magazine, April 2023
A Tale of Two Financial Hubs, The Wire China, February 2023
The Semiconductor Madman, The Wire China, January 2023
Joseph Torigian on Making Sense of Chinese Politics, The Wire China, November 2022
Hal Brands on Navigating America’s “Danger Zone” With China, The Wire China, September 2022
Poxy No More, The Economist, September 2022
Insuring Engagement, The Wire China, September 2022
China’s Sea Change, The Wire China, May 2022
How Mexico Revolutionized the Art of Antivenom, National Geographic, April 2022, supported with a grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation
Hard Knocks, The Wire China, March 2022
Flagged for Security, The Wire China, January 2022
A Search for Literary Hawaii, Barron’s, December 2021
Sea Urchin vs. Kelp: The Fight for California’s Marine Life, The Economist’s 1843, October 2021
The China Bull, The Wire China, October 2021
Special Delivery, The Wire China, August 2021
Stolen By The State, Elle, May 2021
Tesla’s China Endgame, The Wire China, May 2021
Jolly Gene Giant, The Wire China, March 2021
Rare Old Primate, New Critique, December 2020, fiction
The SMIC Smackdown, The Wire China, December 2020
A Pistachio Tycoon Picks a Fight With the U.S. Navy, Bloomberg Green, December 2020, supported with a grant from the Food and Environmental Reporting Network
Mining’s Makeover, The Wire China, November 2020
Woodworking with Francis Fukuyama, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, October 2020
Climbing with Erik Weihenmayer, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, September 2020
The Price of Admission, The Wire China, August 2020
For Dementia Patients and Their Families, Isolation During the Pandemic is a Heavy Burden, National Geographic, June 2020, supported with a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
There Are Places You Cannot Go, The Atavist, July 2018
Adaptive Fashion on the Red Carpet, The New Yorker, May 2019
Want Snow on Your Palm Trees? Easy, The New Yorker, January 2020
From a Stall in San Diego, a Somali Tailor Weaves a New Life, New York Times, November 2019
The High Schooler Who Became a COVID-19 Watchdog, The New Yorker, March 2020
How a mobile game is reopening a hidden chapter in Taiwan’s history, Ars Technica, April 2019
Chasing the World’s Rarest Turtle, The New Yorker, December 2018
How Chickens Could Inspire New Treatments for Deafness, Audubon Magazine, November 2019
HIV+ volunteers are bequeathing their organs to a new project, The Economist, May 2018
The Southwest’s Bumpiest Ride, Men’s Journal, June 2018
In the Kingdom of Dying Ponies, Foreign Policy, May 2017
Bakers From Baghdad, Who Fled Violence Against Christians, Pursue a Sweet Dream, New York Times, November 2018
A Prehistoric Killer, Buried in Muck, The New Yorker, March 2017
A Tiny Parasite Could Save Darwin’s Finches From Extinction, The New Yorker, April 2017
The Virtues of Isolation, The Atlantic, March 2017
Grizzly Bears Might Return to California. Is the State Ready?, Discover, March 2019
Trump Administration Policies Could Threaten Cuban Biosecurity, Scientific American, November 2018
Saving the Endangered Cuban Crocodile, Scientific American, October 2017
Riding the Bamboo Train, Mekong Review, 2017
Raising Hell, The National, December 2017
Snakebite City, Men’s Journal, October 2016
Can Dark Tourism Help Cambodia Heal?, The New Republic, September 2016
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