In this cover story for The Washington Post Magazine, I uncover one of the most infamous crimes in Hollywood history.

For The New Yorker, I wrote about Frances Glessner Lee, who invented crime scene investigation using tiny dollhouses depicting homicides, accidents, and suicides.

For a cover story in The Washington Post Magazine, I exposed the harrowing true crime story of American pothunters.

In 1927, a Baltimore inventor built a rocket to get to the planet Venus. Nearly a century later, a documentary crew is on a mission to find it.

“Men are free from the clothes problem—why should I not follow their example?” A profile of Claire McCardell who took on the fashion industry and revolutionized what women wear.

The shocking history of one of America’s earliest garden suburbs and how bigotry shaped the landscape of American real estate.

I was once a roadie for one of the biggest rock bands of the day and I wrote about the experience for Slate.

Boxing champion Joe Gans was one of the greatest and most celebrated athletes of his time. So why do so few people remember his name?