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Journalism

Politico

Nov. 12, 2018, “How World War I Became the First Modern War of Science”

Smithsonian

Nov. 5, 2018, “How Three Doughboys Experienced the Last Days of World War I”

New Yorker

April 22, 2015, “The Chemical-Weapons Revival”
Nov. 6, 2014, “Sir Walter Raleigh and the Uncertain Future of Space Travel”
June 9, 2015, “Suicide by Chemical Weapon”

The New York Times

Nov. 10, 2018, “The Chemists’ War”
Oct. 27, 2017, “North Korea and the Threat of Chemical Warfare”
Aug. 10, 2015, “The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?”
March 10, 2014, “Washington Businessman Pleads Guilty Over Illegal Contributions”
Oct. 15, 2013, “A Maryland Hill’s Prehistoric Secret”
Nov. 29, 2012, “A House in Washington May Solve a 1918 Mystery”
Nov. 11, 2012, “Construction Site Offers Fleeting Glimpse of the Civil War Past”
July 6, 2012, “Killed by Thousands, Varmint Will Never Quit”
July 5, 2012, “Fraud Case Shows Holes in Exchange of Fuel Credits”
May 4, 2012, “Map’s Hidden Marks Illuminate and Deepen Mystery of Lost Colony”
March 19, 2012, “At Home, Asking How ‘Our Bobby’ Became War Crime Suspect” (contributor)
March 18, 2012, “Zeroing In on Mystery of an Old Site Called Hades”
Dec. 22, 2011, “Fixing Up Embassy, Congo Republic Raises Hackles in Capital”
Dec. 1, 2011, “A Big Uranium Deposit, and a Big Debate on Mining It”
June 10, 2009, “Debate Erupts Over Building Plan by Virginia Muslim School”
July 15, 2007, “In Nashville, a Street Gang Emerges in a Kurdish Enclave”
March 12, 2007, “Where Tobacco Ruled, Smoking Ban Gains Ground”

The Boston Globe

June 22, 2011, “Kerry, McCain push role in Libya”
June 21, 2011, “Abortion foes’ pledge is snag for Romney”
June 20, 2011, “Tierney, Frank frown on Obama nominee”
June 13, 2011, “Bill add-ons draw critics’ comparison to earmarks”
May 16, 2011, “GE’s ‘green’ engine offers new chance with military”
May 6, 2011, “A local push for military to wear US sneakers“
Oct. 15, 2006, “Tenn. home stills fire up for new home brew”

Time/Time.com

Feb. 4, 2010, “Why didn’t HIG Question the Undiebomber?”
Jan. 7, 2010, “How Should America Try Terror Suspects?”
Dec. 10, 2009, “The FBI Probe: What Went Wrong at Fort Hood?”
Oct. 7, 2009, “Gay Weddings in Washington by Winter?”
Oct. 31, 2009, “The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google’s Library”
Oct. 24, 2009, “It’s Official: The ATF and FBI Don’t Get Along”
Aug. 7, 2009, “Will Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Reform Help Current Cons?”
June 19, 2009, “Iraqi Immigrants: Refugees in a Land of No Opportunity”

Washington Post

Aug. 7, 2006, “End of a Park Fit for a King”
March 27, 2006, “More Family Cemeteries Dying Away in the South”

Alicia Patterson Foundation

“Downrange in D.C. ”
“History is Repeating Itself:” A Century of Chemical Warfare”
“The House Over Hades”
“The Scientists Who Created America’s War Gases“

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