The Quest for Better Beef
Texas Monthly, September 2020
The Pandemic Arrives
Texas Monthly, May 2020
Stand The Heat
Texas Monthly, March 2020
The Great Texas Whiskey Boom
Texas Monthly, November 2019
Death on the Home Front
Men’s Journal, July/August 2019
Party of One?
Texas Monthly, April 2019
Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination
Texas Monthly, March 2019
El Más Chingón
Texas Monthly, November 2018
The 25-Year Siege
Texas Monthly, April 2018
What Makes Beto Run?
Texas Monthly, January 2018
Kitsch Goes Waco
Texas Monthly, January 2018
Inside the Texas Quarterback Factory
Texas Monthly, September 2017
Mother of Dragons
The National, April/May 2017
The Not-So-Secret Life of Terrence Malick
Texas Monthly, April 2017
Don Willett’s Quiet Revolution
Texas Observer, December 2016
The Iconoclast
Texas Monthly, November 2016
Faith and Hope
Texas Monthly, August 2016
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Texas Monthly, February 2016
Car Guys
Hemispheres, January 2016
The Curious Case of Pleading Guilty While Innocent
Take Part, November 2015
The Border War on Birthright Citizenship
Rolling Stone, October 2015
The Hangover
Texas Monthly, October 2015
At the Crossroads
Hemispheres, July 2015
The Three Burials of Tony Ayala Jr.
Texas Monthly, July 2015
King of the Hollywood Jungle
Men’s Fitness, June 2015
A Mighty Wind
Texas Monthly, June 2015
Where’s the Beef?
FiveThirtyEight, May 2015
Death and Twitter
Texas Monthly, February 2015
How To Build the Body of an NBA Baller
Men’s Fitness, January/February 2015
A Good Break
Hemispheres, January 2015
Ebb and Flow
Texas Monthly, October 2014
Faces of the Border Crisis
Texas Monthly, July 2014
(a five-part series)
#1: Sister Norma Pimentel
#2: Emergency Manager Kevin Pagan
#3: Water District President Othal E. Brand, Jr.
#4: The Border Patrol
#5: The Children
Return of the Guv
National Journal, July 2014
Laughing with Yu Darvish
Grantland, July 2014
The Perfect Spot
Sports on Earth, May 2014
The French Quarter Connection
Hemispheres, May 2014
Whatever It Takes
Sports on Earth, May 2014
The Psychomagical Realism of Alejandro Jodorowsky
New York Times Magazine, March 2014
Alan Thicke, the Most Interesting Man in the Sports World
Grantland, March 2014 (with Joe DeLessio)
Wild at Heart
Hemispheres, January 2014
Sci-fi, Religion, and Silicon Valley’s Quest For Higher Learning at Singularity University
BuzzFeed, October 2013
The Last American Hero Is Frank Kimmel
Sports on Earth, July 2013
Right Stuff, Wrong Time
Men’s Journal, September 2012
Forgotten but Not Gone: Borges in Texas
Guernica, July 2011
Mars or Bust: Robert Zubrin’s Interplanetary Crusade
Guernica, January 2010 (with Justin Nobel)
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