Family History
You grow what? (2026 essay)
Finding America’s Farmworkers (2025 book)
The Death of a Farmworker (2023 essay)
The New Bracero (2023 essay)
The crux of the farmworker debate (2023 essay)
The Secret Lives of America’s Migrant Farmers (2015 story on Narratively.com)
Considering the farmworker (2015 essay)
The Nice Camp (2014 essay)
Father Tony (2014 essay)
These vecinos are more than just neighbors (2014 essay)
The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi (Damn Interesting 2019)
Death by Derivatives (Damn Interesting 2017)
Foreign Exchange(s) (Damn Interesting 2016)
Fixing Wall Street’s Autopilot (New York Times 2010 op-ed)
Derivatives in a nutshell (2010 book excerpt)
All About Derivatives, 2nd ed (McGraw-Hill 2010 book)
The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi (Damn Interesting 2019)
The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant (Damn Interesting 2017)
Death by Derivatives (Damn Interesting 2017)
Foreign Exchange(s) (Damn Interesting 2016)
My Donna Summer (2026 essay and audio story)
You grow what? (2026 essay and audio story)
Blacksmiths, Ice Men, and Copy Editors (2026 essay)
The Resilient Jimmy Kalish (2025 essay)
To build a house. Or not. (2020 essay)
Something in my head (2020 essay)
Playing with fire (2016 essay)
A Call of the Wild Ends Too Soon (Chapel Hill News, Raleigh News & Observer 2009)