“The lithium curse: why Bolivia has failed to turn minerals into gold,” 1843 Magazine, May 30, 2022
“Abandoned in the Amazon: how indigenous Brazilians fought covid-19,” 1843 Magazine, September 25, 2020
“Why I rented a husband in Brazil,” 1843 Magazine, October/November 2018
“Salvation: Can Religion Solve El Salvador’s Gang Problem?,” 1843 Magazine, April/May 2018
“Murder in the Suburbs,” VICE Magazine, May 21, 2017
“The Salvadoran Town That Can’t Forget,” The Nation, March 30, 2017
“How an innocent man wound up dead in El Salvador’s justice system,” Washington Post, March 16, 2017
“Journalists found a bloody body in the street. Hours later he was dead,” Columbia Journalism Review, March 6, 2017
“A Grim Discovery in El Mozote,” The New York Times Magazine, December 16, 2016.
In Spanish: “Un descubrimiento siniestro en El Mozote,” Alharaca, December 11, 2021
“Remembering El Mozote, the Worst Massacre in Modern Latin American History” The Nation, December 13, 2016
“A light in the underworld,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 21, 2016, Winner of a Mirror Award for Best Profile.
“El Salvador strikes down amnesty for crimes during its civil war,” Washington Post July 14, 2016
“El Salvador says a brutal gang laundered money through motels, brothels, taxis,” Washington Post, July 29, 2016
Life and Death Among the Gangs of Central America,” The New Republic, April 11, 2016
“El Salvador’s gangs call a ceasefire, but many doubt it will hold,” Washington Post, April 2, 2016
“The country with the world’s worst homicide rate now grapples with Zika,” Washington Post, January 31, 2016
“The Pawn King,” The Atlantic, December 4, 2014. Winner of the Norman Mailer College Writing Award.
“Facing grim infant death rates, Milwaukee focuses on black fathers,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 12, 2014
“A Tale of Two Trails,” SAGE Magazine, September 4, 2013. Winner of SAGE’s Environmental Writing Contest.
Contributed reporting or research
“Building a Better Future: A Blueprint for Central America’s Northern Triangle,” Atlantic Council, May 2017
“Beyond the Headlines: A Strategy for US Engagement with Latin America in the Trump Era,” Atlantic Council, March 2017
“El Salvador’s conflict with gangs is beginning to look like a war,” Washington Post, October 28, 2016
“The Court That Rules the World,” Buzzfeed News, August 28, 2016. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.
“El Salvador arrests people who pushed for peace in gang war,” Washington Post, May 5, 2016
“Pope Francis suggests contraceptives may be permissible in Zika fight,” Washington Post, February 18, 2016
“As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018,” Washington Post, January 22, 2016