The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness, The Economist, February 2023
A light in the underworld, Columbia Journalism Review, November 2016. Winner of a Mirror Award for Best Profile.
The Salvadoran Town That Can’t Forget, The Nation, March 2017
The Amazon is approaching an irreversible tipping point, The Economist, August 2019. Cover story.
Is Honduras’s ruling party planning to rig an election?, The Economist, November 2017
How an innocent man wound up dead in El Salvador’s justice system, Washington Post, March 2017
A Grim Discovery in El Mozote, The New York Times Magazine, December 2016
Brazil’s dismal decade: a special report, The Economist, June 2021. Cover story
Rio de Janeiro asks why its cops kill so many black people, The Economist, August 2021
Salvation: Can Religion Solve El Salvador’s Gang Problem, 1843 Magazine, April/May 2018
Life and Death Among the Gangs of Central America, The New Republic, April 2016
Mafias of rogue police officers are terrorising Rio, The Economist, May 2019
For some in Brazil, commemorating slavery is vital. Others are wary, The Economist, May 2019
Murder in the Suburbs, VICE Magazine, May 2017
How big beef and soya firms can stop deforestation, The Economist, June 2020
Covid-19 is causing a new form of collective trauma, The Economist, August 2020
What a rare word for sex reveals about Brazilian Portuguese, The Economist, January 2022
Bolivia has thousands of dinosaur footprints, but few bones, The Economist, August 2021
A scary election in Brazil, The Economist, September 2018. Cover story
The Pawn King, The Atlantic, December 4, 2014. Winner of the Norman Mailer College Writing Award. Anthologized in “The Little Norton Reader.”
