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Wall Street Journal

Tourism Trap

I reviewed Elizabeth Becker’s Overbooked in the Wall Street Journal.

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Atlantic Monthly

Hyperinflation Vacation

I traveled to hyperinflationary Iran for The Atlantic.

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New Republic

How Georgia Got Clean

I visited the Republic of Georgia for The New Republic.

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Atlantic Monthly

Anthropology Inc.

I wrote about corporate ethnography in The Atlantic.

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New Republic

Save the Old City

At The New Republic, I have a piece about one of my favorite places in the world: the Old City of Damascus.

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Atlantic Monthly

My Conversion Will Not Be Televised

I debated an Egyptian cleric on Salafi TV: a report for The Atlantic.

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Atlantic Monthly

Fawzia Koofi

I profiled Fawzia Koofi for The Atlantic‘s “Brave Thinkers” package.

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Atlantic Monthly

Atomic Holiday

I’ve always wanted to visit Mercury, Nevada, site of numerous huge holes in the ground from when the US government blew up nuclear weapons there. Here I report from the proving grounds for The Atlantic.