Work
Last updated March 2023
The Economist (selected work)
“American politics: Stormy whether,” 03/23/23. United States.
“Poverty: Small mercies [review of Matthew Desmond's book],” 03/15/23. Culture.
“American universities: Testing fail,” 03/09/23. Leader.
“Say it ain’t Joe: What if Joe Biden decided against running for re-election?”, 03/09/23. United States.
“Ron DeSantis: International man of mystery,” 03/01/23. United States.
“Universities: New Testaments,” 02/04/23. United States.
“Trillion-dollar chicken: There is no easy escape from America’s debt-ceiling mess,” 01/23/23. United States. [with colleagues]
“Congress: House Rules,” 01/12/23. United States.
“McCarthy and the new House: Republicans struggle to elect a speaker of the House,” 01/05/23. United States
“The House delivers its 800-page report on the January 6th riot,” 12/23/22. United States.
“Congress: Last-minute bargains,” 12/8/22. United States.
“New blood in Congress: To the winners, the spoilers,” 12/1/22. United States.
“The next election (already): Series reboot,” 11/17/22. United States.
“Lexington: Anger management [on Glenn Youngkin],” 11/17/22. United States.
“The midterms: False tsunami alert,” 11/10/22. United States.
“MAGA and Magritte: What’s at stake in the midterm elections,” 11/6/22. United States.
“Education in America: Making a meritocracy,” 11/3/22. Leader.
“The midterms: The anti-democracy front,” 10/27/22. United States.
“The midterms: What’s in a name? [on socialism]” 10/20/22. United States.
“The midterms: Heisman Shuffle,” 10/13/22. United States.
“The Economist explains: How much legal jeopardy is Donald Trump in?” 10/5/22. Explainer.
“Midterm effects: A chronicle of gridlock foretold,” 09/27/22. United States.
“Abortion and the midterms: Roeing forward,” 09/08/22. United States.
“Education policy: The Inflation Acceleration Action,” 08/25/22. United States.
“Donald Trump’s Republicans: That hideous strength,” 08/18/22. Briefing. [Cover]
“Tracking right: Three books probe Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party,” 08/16/22. Culture.
“A war of attrition: Donald Trump’s preferred candidates sweep to victory in Arizona,” 08/03/22. United States.
“American politics: Wake up, Democrats” 07/14/22. Leader. [Cover]
“Peak progressive: Peak progressive,” 07/14/22. Briefing.
“Latino voters: No, no se puede,” 07/07/22. United States.
“After Roe v Wade: The fallout from overturning Roe,” 06/26/22. United States.
“Benefits for immigrants: The welfare states,” 05/19/22. United States.
“Immigration: State of disarray,” 05/19/22. Leader.“America’s mid-term elections: Georgia will again be at the centre of fights over electoral fairness,” 05/08/22. United States.
“Abortion: The draft seen round the world,” 05/04/22. United States.
“Keep the change: Why America keeps delaying student-loan repayments,” 04/16/22. United States.
“Child allowance: The social experiment,” 03/31/22. United States.
“State-and-local-tax deduction: A tax plan for the upper, upper class,” 12/2/21. United States. [Accompanying leader.]
“Social mobility in America: Stuck in place,” 11/4/21. Briefing.
“Police and politics: Minneapolis: A question of safety,” 10/28/21. United States.
“The illiberal left: Out of the academy,” 09/02/21. Briefing. [Cover]
“Competition: Anti-trust in me,” 07/15/21. United States.
“Republicans and elections: Razing Arizona,” 07/01/21. United States. [Cover briefing]
“Portland: Plaid shirts and plywood,” 06/10/21. United States.
“The role of the state: Joe se transforme,” 05/20/21. United States.
“Biden’s beginnings: 100 days of aptitude,” 05/01/21. United States.
“Shovels ready: Joe Biden unveils America’s most ambitious infrastructure plan in generations,” 04/01/21. United States.
“Violence in America: A modern murder mystery,” 03/25/21. United States.
“The filibuster: Motion to dismiss,” 03/11/21. Briefing.
“The battle over voting laws: Heads we win, tails you cheated,” 03/11/21. United States.
“Suffer the children: A Republican, Mitt Romney, argues for child benefits in America,” 02/04/21. United States.
“The 46th president: Good luck, Joe,” 01/21/21. Briefing. [Cover]
“Schools and covid-19: Lesson learned,” 12/17/20. United States.
“The Trump audit: Four years on,” 10/28/20. Briefing. [Cover]
“Measuring poverty: And the poor get poorer,” 10/01/20. United States.
“Resort towns: The virus in paradise,” 09/17/20. United States.
“Eviction: Shelter in place,” 09/10/20. United States.
“Race in America: Staying Apart,” 07/09/20. Briefing. [Part of cover package]
“Echoes of 1968: History is repeated in protests at the death of George Floyd,” 06/01/20. United States.
“Covid-19 in America: 100,000 and counting,” 05/28/20. Briefing. [Cover]
“Education and society: The social experiment,” 05/07/20. United States.
“The Democratic primary: That Berning feeling,” 02/27/20. United States. [Cover; with colleagues]
“The Democratic primary: The world intrudes,” 01/16/20. United States.
“School policy: The dignity of all the talents,” 01/09/20. United States.
“The Democratic primary: College free-for-all,” 12/12/19. United States.
“The 2020 election: How to pay for Warrencare,” 11/05/19. United States.
“American capitalism: Warrensworld,” 10/24/19. Briefing. [Cover; with colleagues]
“Homelessness: Urban myths,” 10/17/19. United States.
“University admissions: Making a meritocracy,” 10/03/2019. United States.
“Poverty in America: Poor America,” 09/26/2019. Special Report. [10 pages]
“Rent control: Progressives for regression,” 09/19/2019. United States.
“Evictions examined: Pushed out,” 08/22/2019. United States.
“Baltimore: City on the brink,” 08/01/2019. United States
“Andrew Yang: Prophet of doom,” 06/20/19. United States.
“Race and life expectancy: Black lives longer,” 06/13/19. United States.
“Class struggle: Cory Booker’s educational successes do not play well in the primaries,” 05/14/19. United States.
“Melanin and money: The colour of wealth,” 04/04/19. United States.
“College admissions: Bribe styles of the rich and famous,” 03/13/19. United States.
“Day care for all: It takes a government child-care centre,” 03/07/19. United States.
“Opioids: The death curve,” 02/21/19. Briefing.
“The safety net: The Arkansas experiment,” 02/14/19. United States.
“The ideas primary: Warren’s world,” 02/07/19. United States.
“Health policy: After Obamacare,” 01/16/19. United States.
“Education: Grad inflation,” 01/03/19. United States.
“The environment: WOTUS, WOTUS, everywhere,” 12/13/18. United States.
“Obamacare heads west: Stranger things,” 10/25/18. United States.
“Democratic policies: Universal pictures,” 10/11/18. United States.
“Cities and development: Build, baby, build,” 08/09/18. United States.
“Cities: In praise of gentrification,” 06/21/18. United States.
“Segregation: Coming apart,” 04/04/18. United States.
“Schools: Portfolio theory,” 03/01/18. United States.
“Education in America: What’s the matter with Oklahoma?” 01/30/2018. United States.
“The saga continues: Analysing Juan Orlando Hernández’s disputed election victory in Honduras,” 12/5/2017. Americas.
“For-profit colleges: Decline and fall,” 11/09/2017. United States.
“Fixing cities: The end of blight is in sight,” 09/16/17. United States.
“Democracy’s whipping boys,” 06/17/17. International.
“Parliamentary prospects,” 06/01/17. Britain.
“Hack me if you can: How governments in the Middle East snoop on human-rights activists,” 05/18/17. Middle East.
“France’s presidential election: What are Marine Le Pen’s chances of victory,” 4/22/17. Graphic detail.
“How we modelled the French presidential vote: A deep dive into France’s presidential-election polling,” 4/7/17. Graphic detail.
“Japan’s cherry blossoms are emerging increasingly early,” 4/7/17. Daily chart.
“Japanese tuna: Bluefinger,” 01/14/17. Finance.
“Lebanon: Census and sensibility,” 11/5/16. Middle East and Africa.
“Trump and the academy: Political science refashions itself to deal with the Republican nominee,” 9/3/16. United States.
“How our Brexit model fared on election night,” 6/27/16. Daily chart.
