Selected Writing
On Police, Protest, and the Legal System
Mother Jones: Rap On Trial Is Now Mainstream (On the Young Thug RICO trial) (2023)
Mother Jones: “Undemocratic”: Why Is Keith Ellison Taking Over a Case From a Prosecutor He Endorsed? (Co-published with Bolts Magazine) (2023)
Mother Jones: The Future of American Environmental Protests May be Unfolding in a Forest Outside Atlanta (On Cop City) (2023)
Mother Jones: Minority Rule Is Coming for Progressive Prosecutors (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/the-new-republican-power-grab-blue-city-say-bye-bye-to-your-progressive-district-attorney/
Mother Jones: The Police Are Defunding Minneapolis (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/minneapolis-police-defund-george-floyd-city-budget/
Mother Jones: A San Francisco Public Defender Explains What the Media is Getting Wrong About the “Crime Wave” (2022)
Mother Jones: After the Death of Amir Locke, Nothing Is Really Changing—Again (2022)
Mother Jones: Jacob Frey Is a Liar (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/jacob-frey-is-a-liar/
Mother Jones: Minneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City Promised to Ban Them (2022)
The Right
The Nation: How Red Meat Became The Red Pill For The Right (July 2020 Print Story)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/beef-red-pill-right/
Mother Jones: Blood, Soil, and Grass-Fed Beef (On the "Raw Egg Nationalist") (Back-of-Book Column in May/June 2023 Issue)
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/raw-egg-nationalist-wef-great-reset-meat-eggs/
Mother Jones: Candace Owens Exposes Only Herself in Her BLM Documentary (Back-of-Book Essay March/April 2023 Issue)
Mother Jones: Choose Your Fighter: Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg (On "the cage match") (2023)
Mother Jones: Monster of 2022: J.D. Vance
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/monster-of-2022-j-d-vance/
Climate and the Environment
Mother Jones: Will History Absolve Eco-Terrorists? (Review of the film How To Blow Up a Pipeline) (2023)
Mother Jones: How Giving Legal Rights to an Indigenous Food Could Stop a Pipeline (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2022/02/line3-wild-rice-bibeau-indigenous-rights-minnesota/
Latin America and International Politics
Mother Jones: This Book Will Change How You Think About Protest Forever (Interview with Vincent Bevins' on If We Burn)
Mother Jones: Interview with Texas Rep. Greg Casar On joining AOC's Historic Congressional Delegation to Latin America. (2023)
Mother Jones: Javier Milei Says He’s the Future of Argentina. He Looks a Lot Like Its Past. (2023)
Mother Jones: Hero of 2022: Lula
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/hero-of-2022-lula/
Minnesota Reformer: Oromo Find Their Voice Amid Prejudice – In Minnesota and Ethiopia (2020)
Politics and Elections
The Nation: In Minneapolis, the Movement Heads for the Voting Booth (2021)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/minneapolis-left-candidates/
Belt Magazine: Will Minneapolis’s Upper Harbor Terminal Project Be Good for Its Neighbors? (2020)
https://beltmag.com/minneapolis-upper-harbor-terminal-neighbors-equitable-development/
The FADER: How Ilhan Omar Became The First Somali-American Muslim To Win Public Office (2017)
https://www.thefader.com/2017/03/14/ilhan-omar-first-somali-muslim-politician-interview
Other
History
Mother Jones: He Joined the Attica Prison Uprising. He Hopes a New Documentary Can Set the Record Straight. (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/attica-prison-uprising-news-documentary/
Mother Jones: Hero of 2022: Mike Davis, and Learning In Order to Act
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/hero-of-2022-mike-davis-and-learning-in-order-to-act/
Mother Jones: How Stokely Carmichael Helped Inspire the Creation of C-SPAN (2022)
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/08/stokely-carmichael-kwame-ture-cspan-brian-lamb/
The Nation: A Lawsuit at Harvard Pries Opens Debates About Science and Reparations (2019)
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-slavery-racism/
On Music and Pop Culture
The Outline: Boots Riley Finally Staged His Coup (2017)
https://theoutline.com/post/5379/boots-riley-very-intriguing-person?zd=2&zi=teoeljnx
Bandcamp Daily: Psymun on Working With The Weeknd, Bon Iver, and Rediscovering Lightning Bolt (2017)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/psymun-rainbow-party-interview
Bandcamp Daily: DJ Harrison Draws on ’70s Funk & Soul to Build Vibrant Beat Masterpieces (2017)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/dj-harrison-hazymoods-interview
The FADER: Meet Lyle Thompson, The Pro Athlete Bringing Lacrosse Back To Its Roots (2016)
https://www.thefader.com/2016/06/09/lyle-thompson-lacrosse-interview
The FADER: Frank Dukes Is Low-Key Producing Everyone Right Now (2016)
https://www.thefader.com/2016/02/04/frank-dukes-producer-interview
The FADER: Rahki Talks Producing Kendrick Lamar’s “i” (2014)
https://www.thefader.com/2014/10/16/beat-construction-rahki
The FADER: Meet The Minnesota Misfits Behind thestand4rd (2014)
https://www.thefader.com/2014/10/29/gen-f-thestand4rd