Thanks for your interest in my work. Here’s a selection of my writing.

inventing the perfect college applicant (New York Magazine)

Christopher Rim makes himself hard to get to. First, there’s the email to register as a guest at the Aman Club, where members pay an initiation fee of $200,000 to perch themselves above the crowds on Fifth Avenue and where Rim sometimes holds his client meetings. Then there’s the check-in at the front desk to get access to the elevator, which leads to another reception area on the 14th floor. From there, a man in a suit guides me into the main room… (Read the full story here)

The Truths and Distortions of Ruby Franke (New York Magazine)

In 2015, Ruby Franke, a 32-year-old Mormon woman in Utah, became another parent sharing her family’s life on YouTube. The first video on her now-defunct channel, 8 Passengers, begins with old footage of her standing in a modest kitchen, her five children gathered around in anticipation as she cuts into a cake to reveal the gender of her sixth child. The video jumps to a scene at the hospital shortly after her new daughter’s birth. Resting in bed, Ruby cradles the baby and her youngest son… (Read the full story here)

The Shame of Saint Ann’s (New York Magazine)

The texts started coming in right after the arrest, a symphony of vibrations in the pockets and Rachel Comey fanny packs of Brooklyn’s private-school set. Students messaged their friends and parents, who in turn formed frantic group chats with other parents. The details were fuzzy on June 6, but what they knew for sure was this: Winston Nguyen, a math teacher at Saint Ann’s School, where parents pay up to $60,525 a year for a nontraditional, grades-free education that might one day… (Read the full story here)

Robert F. Kennedy jr. wants to be president. cheryl hines is along for the ride (New YOrk times)

On a quiet Thursday in May, there was almost no indication that anyone in Cheryl Hines’s house was running for president. A hockey stick poked out from a bush in front of the Spanish colonial home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Leaning up against a wall outside were several surfboards, caked with wax, at least one of which belonged to her husband, the 69-year-old environmental lawyer… (Read the full story here)

Did new york city forget how to teach children to read? (New York Magazine)

At a meeting with parents in May, Elizabeth Phillips, a longtime principal at P.S. 321, a highly sought-after elementary school in Park Slope, didn’t mince words about the new reading curricula being implemented across the city this fall by Mayor Eric Adams’s administration. Not only did she refer to the trio of options selected by Schools Chancellor David Banks and the mayor’s Cabinet as “three bad choices,” she also shared her plans to resist… (Read the full story here)

Un-Adopted (New York Magazine)

The video began like so many others. YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer, in the glow of camera-friendly lighting, staring into the lens. But this time, instead of energetically updating their roughly 1 million subscribers (over 700,000 on Myka’s YouTube channel and over 300,000 on the family’s vlog, The Stauffer Life) on their “kiddos” or Myka’s “mommy morning routine”… (Read the full story here)

Welcome to the era of very earnest parenting (New York Times)

A second after the plastic shovel hit my son’s arm, the other boy’s mom was rushing toward the sandbox, a look of Can’t I relax for five seconds? on her face. I made my way over too — probably with the same expression — trying to signal that it was fine (my son was busy playing with some other germy, sandy toy and barely seemed to notice), but she was already on her knees, eye level with her son, speaking in language… (Read the full story here)

The House Built for the Day Roe Falls (Harper’s Bazaar)

Erin King scoots up to the operating table, where her patient is already situated in stirrups, a bright light beaming over both of them. “How far did you have to travel to be here today?” King asks, her voice calm and upbeat as she begins the abortion procedure. The 21-year-old woman stares up at the ceiling, gently gripping a nurse’s hand. She says she and her boyfriend drove overnight from Oklahoma.… (Read the full story here)

blocked (New York Magazine)

Luke was a teenager, but sometimes he suffered from hot flashes so intense he felt faint. His bones ached. Sitting on the edge of his bed, he twisted repeatedly to relieve the pain in his back, which “feels like it could snap in two.” The discomfort was like having an illness, he says, except he was not sick. Instead, he was suffering from the side effects of puberty blockers — a drug that suppresses… (Read the full story here)

Nobody Wraps Pat Kiernan (New York Magazine)

Pat Kiernan wanted the bagels. It was January 15, 2020 — National Bagel Day — and the crew of NY1’s morning show, Mornings on 1, had already pillaged the breakfast platter in the control room when word came down that it was being requested on set. The bagels had been sent to weekend anchor Kristen Shaughnessy, but Kiernan didn’t ask where they’d come from until he and his co-anchors… (Read the full story here)

The Congresswoman From California (New York Magazine)

“Any chance you could grab us a bottle of wine or something? Lol,” former California congresswoman Katie Hill texted. We settled on rosé. Hill and I had never met, but she was in the midst of a professional and personal crisis. It was 4:30 in the afternoon, and she would be going live on air with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that night. “ROUGH day,” she wrote… (Read the full story here)

“Nobody Can Know” (Vanity Fair)

While red states are curtailing abortion access, clinics across the country are furnishing VIP clients with black-car service, private appointments, and recovery care packages—if they can afford it. How Republican politics are returning America to a past where only the wealthy have access to safe, legal abortion. (Read the full story here)

The Unique Horror of a Bulletproof Backpack (New York Magazine)

In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas high-school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday — the seventh deadly school shooting in the U.S. this year and the third deadliest ever behind the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook massacres — Sarah Pampillonia noticed an ad on Facebook for a product she’d never heard of before: a kids’ backpack that, in addition to carrying books and pencils and snacks, doubles as a shield from bullets. It took a moment for the 33-year-old mom and fifth-grade teacher to process what was she was looking at... (Read the full story here)