Introduction
How I moved twenty one times before college (Parcel, 2013)
Highway construction may unearth human remains (The Huffington Post, 2013)
Dear daughter, your mom (The Morning News, 2014)
Freedom mandate (Guernica, 2014)
Poor teeth (Aeon, 2014)
Lede, nutgraph, and body (Aeon, 2015)
Poverty, pride, and prejudice (NewYorker.com, 2015)
Linguistic notice for Homo Sapiens heretofore known as "pussies" and "little bitches" (McSweeney's, 2015)
Believe it (Creative Nonfiction, 2015)
The first person on Mars (Vela, 2015)
The new migrants (Texas Observer, 2016)
The wind doesn't stop at customs (On Being, 2016)
Dangerous idiots (The Guardian, 2016)
The jump (Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living, 2017)
Blood brother (Tales of Two Americas, Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, 2017/VQR, 2017)
The uprising of women in "red states" is just beginning (The Cut, 2018)
The winter wheat I helped raise (Pacific Standard, 2018)
Writing assignment (The Guardian, 2018)
Liberal blind spots are hiding the truth (The New York Times, 2018)
At the precise geographic heart of the dark-money beast (The Guardian, 2018)
Blue wave in Kansas (The New York Times, 2018)
Brain gain (The New York Times, 2019)
Chronicling a community, and a country, in economic crisis (The New York Times, 2020)
I am burning with fury and grief (The New York Times, 2020)
In defense of populism (Columbia Journalism Review, 2020)
How is arguing with Trump voters working out for you? (The Guardian, 2020)
Rural route (NationalGeographic.com, 2020)
Revision (The New Territory, 2021)
Extraction (The Atlantic, 2021)
What to do with our Covid rage (The New York Times, 2021)
In celebration of rare and exquisite accuracy from Hollywood (The Guardian, 2022)
Shelterbelt (The New York Times, 2022)
In the running (Harper's, 2022)
For my lover (Oxford American, 2022)
The butchering shed (The New York Times, 2022)
Unwanted gifts (2024)
Note on original publications.