Good basketball is back in DC this summer! My Washington Mystics preview: washingtonian.com/2023/05/17/fiv…

Talked to @CelesteHeadlee about her new podcast on the unsolved killings of six Black girls in 1971 Southeast DC: washingtonian.com/2023/05/22/the…

I visited the beautiful community garden tucked behind the U St metro stop before it gets bulldozed in October. Learned a lot about time, space, and mulberries. washingtonian.com/2023/05/26/thi…

Went to the Columbia Heights street market the other day and listened to some very mixed feelings about impending vending decriminalization ⬇️ washingtonian.com/2023/06/15/str…

Had a cool chat with the folks from African Diaspora International Film Festival, Bob Khalifornia 🇵🇸🐘Ⓥ🍵, and Edson Jean ⤵️

“I am usually not a litigious person, but in this case I absolutely am." Colleen Costello 🍁 + 3 other people who lost their pets in the horrific District Dogs NE flood talk about what happened, and what comes next. washingtonian.com/2023/08/18/mou…

I appreciate a great conversation about THE COURT AT WAR with ⁦Malcolm Ferguson⁩ and ⁦Washingtonian 🌸 in the September print edition of Washingtonian. Pub date for book is 9/19 and you can order it now wherever you like to buy books.

“Black people can celebrate our Africanness without diminishing our Americanness … our understanding of the latter is incomplete if we lose sight of the former.” I wrote about Kwanzaa for my first The Atlantic joint: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“'Sex and the City' currently has a surprisingly firm hold on me,” Malcolm Ferguson writes in the Sunday Daily. “The show is an interesting study of the pre-smartphone romantic landscape [and] the pre-smartphone version of New York City.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

"The change is misguided—a way of retroactively integrating Major League Baseball, reducing decades of segregation to a footnote." I wrote about why Negro League (and all segregation era) statistics should stand alone, for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My internship with Post Sports ended a few days ago but I’m not going anywhere! Can’t believe I’m saying this but I will be covering the Washington Wizards for @WashingtonPost. Thank you to so many people who helped me get here. I can’t wait to get started!

1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/s…

As marijuana has become easier to obtain, it has also become harder to smoke, Malcolm Ferguson writes: “You don’t have to be a War on Drugs apologist to be worried about the consequences of unleashing so much super-high-potency weed into the world.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I wrote about marijuana potency (too high), the illusion of choice at the dispensary, and what to do about it. For The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The myths that fueled marijuana’s criminalization have deep roots. In Time-Travel Thursdays, Malcolm Ferguson examines how different writers in The Atlantic approached the subject of cannabis use in society over the past century: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time. trib.al/1vC20jE

“Walmart’s retreat from DEI is a lesson in what corporate social responsibility actually is: political statements designed not to offer meaningful change but to placate consumers and avoid bad press.” I wrote about the DEI recalibration for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/189806…

I wrote about how Trump’s past incoherence—and his inner circle’s current incongruence—likely spell doom for the future of legal weed. For The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/192265…

For a Democratic Party struggling with authenticity and communication, Smith checks a lot of boxes. And even if his presidential chances are questionable at best, the charismatic leadership vacuum they highlight is very real. For The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/194270…