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Good Riddance to the Red Delicious
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Good Riddance to the Red Delicious

An apple that sucks. For Slate

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The Vault
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The Vault

Documents blog I ran from 2012-2018. For Slate

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Pickles and Ice Cream
food, women Rebecca Onion 4/18/18 food, women Rebecca Onion 4/18/18

Pickles and Ice Cream

How a pregnancy snack became an icon. For Slate

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No Sense of Decency
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No Sense of Decency

Why the iconic McCarthy clapback will never happen in the Trump era. For Slate

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Is It Possible To Raise a Kid Without Crappy Plastic Toys?
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Is It Possible To Raise a Kid Without Crappy Plastic Toys?

My quest to follow the principles of toy limitation. For Slate

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History of Reconstruction Podcast
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History of Reconstruction Podcast

Limited series on the Reconstruction era, with cohost Jamelle Bouie. For Slate

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Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anticommunist Plot
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Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anticommunist Plot

Why we don’t have government daycare. For Slate

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Slate Academy: Fascism
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Slate Academy: Fascism

Limited-series podcast on the history of fascism, with cohosts Josh Keating and June Thomas. For Slate

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Ready for the End
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Ready for the End

On prepper fiction. For Slate

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Where Is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Gun Control?
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Where Is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Gun Control?

What would that even look like? For Slate

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Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Creek Son
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Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Creek Son

The story of Lyncoya. For Slate

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A Hamilton Skeptic Speaks
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A Hamilton Skeptic Speaks

Q&A with Lyra Monteiro, one of the first to break consensus over Lin Manuel-Miranda’s beloved musical. For Slate

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“She Just Wants Attention”
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“She Just Wants Attention”

Anatomy of a sexist insult. For Slate

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The Art of the New Deal
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The Art of the New Deal

History of the contested 1932 Democratic convention. For Slate

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Founding Fathers on Tumblr
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Founding Fathers on Tumblr

The anatomy of a fandom. For New York Magazine’s Select All blog

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The Deadly Accuracy of The Witch
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The Deadly Accuracy of The Witch

On Robert Eggers’ horror film. For Slate

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America’s Other Original Sin
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America’s Other Original Sin

Essay on new histories of Native American slavery. For Slate

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Is History Written About Men, by Men?
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Is History Written About Men, by Men?

Analysis of authorship of recently published popular history, with Andrew Kahn. For Slate

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Who Was Hugh Glass?
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Who Was Hugh Glass?

Essay on the tellings and retellings of Glass’ biography. For Slate

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What If?
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What If?

Essay on counterfactuals in history, for Aeon Magazine

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