
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)