Selected features
Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?, The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 2023 (featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing)
‘My Gang Is Jesus’: Brazil’s evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade (PDF), Harper's, Feb. 2020
For Art's Sake: The crimes that fueled an extravagant Brazilian museum (PDF), Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2018
Songs From Sinjar: How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition, Lapham's Quarterly, Sept. 2017
more stories
The Myth of Conflict-Free Diamonds, The New York Times, Feb. 2025
Shipwrecked in the Amazon, The Atlantic, Feb. 2025
Step 1: Move to Peru. Step 2: Join the Marxist Struggle, The New York Times Book Review, March 2020
The Shape of Power: The making and unmaking of Brazilian democracy, The Nation, April 2019
Brazil Turns Its Back on Democracy, The Atlantic, Oct. 2018
Open Talk of a Military Coup Unsettles Brazil, The New Yorker, Oct. 2017
What the Latest Crisis Means for Brazil, The New Yorker, May 2017
Shave the Billionaire: Miraculously, Brazil is jailing its tycoons, The Baffler, May 2017
Brazil After Dilma Rousseff, The New Yorker, Sept. 1, 2016
Why Brazilians Are So Obsessed with the Ryan Lochte Story, The New Yorker, Aug. 2016
Brazil's Olympics Meets Its Favelas, The New Yorker, Aug. 2016
The Broken Promise of the Rio Olympics, The Atlantic, Aug. 2016
How Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party lost the workers, The Washington Post, April 2016 (front-page story)
Ghosts of Brazil’s past haunt presidential impeachment crisis, The Washington Post, March 2016
Counting to a Billion: How that list of the world's richest people gets made, The Awl, March 2016
Zika exposes class differences in Brazil, where most victims are poor, The Washington Post, Feb. 2016 (front-page story)
The Billionaire Bishop: A pastor gathers followers and dollars, and criminal investigations (PDF), Bloomberg Businessweek, April 2013
Venezuela's Expat Revolutionaries, Slate, March 2009