Last year, we did a successful book drive for Detroit’s Osborn High School. Now, we are taking the project to…
I gave up Twitter for Lent. You won’t believe what happened next.
I gave up Twitter for Lent. I spoke with some journalist friends before Ash Wednesday, and the response…
Aaron Hernandez verdict
I covered the Aaron Hernandez verdict for Reuters.
Recent odds-n-ends
Some of my recent work at Reuters, including the sentencing of Gary Lee Sampson, and on self-advocacy for the Harvard Law…
Get Ready for Medicinal Mushrooms
To treat cluster headaches; addiction to alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco; and for anxiety and depression. Read about it here.
Detroit’s underground economy is a Gift Economy
My latest interview, on Michigan Radio’s Stateside, about Detroit’s gift economy.
How do Detroiters get by with little or no cash?
They participate in a gift economy. My latest at Bloomberg.
“Stateside” interview
I spoke with Michigan Radio about what we can learn from Bolivia’s Water Wars: “In 1999, the water in Bolivia…
What Michigan can learn from Bolivia’s water crisis
Turns out, quite a bit. My latest at Model D.
Welcome to the Multimillion-Dollar Business of Selling U.S. Cities
In which I look at the intersection of place marketing and journalism for NextCity:
Echoes Of 1863
How Lincoln Transformed Thanksgiving, And Why It’s Relevant Today. At WBUR.