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• ​Writer/editor of FrontPageConfidential.com, a website that reports on matters involving the First Amendment, including the Lacey/Larkin case. 
• Former political columnist for the Phoenix New Times. Bylines in Phoenix Magazine, Salon, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Splice Today, Jacobin, Sierra ​magazine and many others.

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Barrel Proof Stories 

Multiple Pieces

• ​Phoenix Magazine
• Phoenix New Times​
• Salon
• ​Front Page Confidential
• LA Weekly

​Featured Stories​

• "Missed Connections: The Dems' Midterm Struggles," Phoenix Magazine
• "Paging Senator Sinema," Sierra magazine
• "Cowboy Down: The Tangled Arizona Legacy of Lawrence Tenney Stevens," Phoenix Magazine
• "When Kyrsten Sinema Tried to Stop the Recall of an Anti-Immigrant Zealot," Jacobin
• "Monster Mash: Arizona’s Scariest People," Phoenix Magazine​
• "Madhouse on McDowell: An Unabashedly Premature Oral History of AZ's Election Recount," Phoenix Magazine
• "Recovery on the Rocks: Phoenix's New Comeback Kids," Phoenix Magazine
• "Show Low Musician Punks Arizona Legislature," Phoenix Magazine
• "Martyred at the Mic? ASU Removed a Student radio Station Manager Due to an Unwoke Tweet. Does the Cronkite School Have a Free Speech Problem?" Phoenix Magazine 
• ​"Once Upon a Time . . . in Tempe: The Early Days of Phoenix New Times," Phoenix New Times
• "Heart of Glass: Famed Phoenix Chef Christopher Gross Carefully Crafts His Dream Eatery High Atop the Wrigley Mansion," Phoenix Magazine
• "Cast Away: Jeff Flake Sacrificed His Political Career to Defy the GOP and President Trump," Phoenix Magazine
• "The Avengers: The Elite Phoenix PD Squad That Smashed Violent Valley Fascists," Phoenix Magazine
• "Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Dodges the Needle for Murder; Jury Saw No Hate Crime," Phoenix New Times
• "Blood Cult: Utah’s Polygamous Kingston Clan Mixes Incest and White Supremacy with Old-Fashioned Capitalism," Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report
• ​"21st-Century Viking: The Life and Death of Ex-Con, Tattoo Artist, and Heathen Warrior Jubel Dean Perkins," Phoenix New Times​​