2024

The Holdouts in the Quest for a Better Power Grid
The New Yorker

2023

After the Shooting in Kansas City
The New Yorker

2022

Harvesting Wheat in Drought-parched Kansas
The New Yorker

Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth
The Atlantic

2021

Pulling Count: My Six Months on the Line in a Dodge City Meatpacking Plant
The Atlantic (July/August 2021 issue)

The Christian Science Monitor

2018

On the environmental impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia

On the forced evictions of migrant workers in Beijing

On the rise of ideological education at Chinese universities

2017

On the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

On China’s ambitious national parks program and nomadic herders

On the complications of reforestation efforts in China

On grassroots activism in China’s war on pollution

On the legacy of the Candlelight Revolution in South Korea

2016

On the role of feminism in South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution

On the spike in child labor at brick kilns in post-earthquake Nepal (funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)

On empowering bonded laborers in India (funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)

On a cash transfer program for human trafficking victims in Thailand

2015

On deforestation and peat fires in Indonesia

On the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Canada

On the Shinto revival and rise of nationalism in Japan (funded by a grant from the International Reporting Project)

On the growth of fish farming in China

Older reporting

On the defamation case of a Twitter rabble rouser in Indonesia (PRI’s The World, 2014)

On mangrove forests and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (PRI’s The World, 2013)

On the lack of government support for homeless students in Illinois (Chicago Tribune, 2012)

On the repression of West Papuan independence activists in Indonesia (Associated Press, 2011)

On the bamboo construction boom in Bali (Associated Press, 2011)