The New York Times Opinion

Sonny Burton’s plea of clemency and its significance

Writer: Elizabeth Vartkessian
Art Director: Elana Schlenker

The New York Times Opinion

The World Isn’t Ready for what Comes after IVF
There’s a vibe shift coming for reproductive medicine.

Writer: Ari Schulman
Art Director: Sam Whitney

The New York Times Magazine

The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind
Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.

Art Director: Rachel Willey

The Smith Quaterly

Hauntings
A study of how our past lives in the present. For the Smith Quarterly’s 2026 winter issue.

Art Director: Nick Marabella, Matt Willey (Pentagram Design)

The New York Times Opinion

The A.D.H.D Shortage is Causing Real Pain
The United States cannot continue torturing people who rely on controlled substances to function.

Writer: Maia Szalavitz
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz

The New York Times Opinion

Why are Nonprofit Focused More on Dollars than Patients?

Writer: Amol S. Navathe
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz

The New York Times Sunday Opinion

The Epstein Files Are an X-Ray of How Power Works
Anand Giridharadas interviewed by Ezra Klein.

Art Director: Kristie Bailey

The Baffler

Egypt’s Carceralocracy
Mass imprisonment is a defining feature of Egyptian political life. By Collective Antigone.

Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)

The Atlantic

Between ‘the Drive to Forget and the Obligation to Remember’
Argentina’s unfinished reckoning shows how difficult it can be to recover from state terror.

Writer: Julia M. Klein
Art Director: Ben Kothe

The Atlantic

There’s No Such Thing as a Meaningful Death
Book review for Kaveh Akbar‘s Martyr!

Writer: Nicolás Medina Mora
Art Director: Ben Kothe

The New York Times Opinion

Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America?

Writer: Nicholas Kristof
Art Director: Sam Whitney

Acacia Magazine

Policing Palestine
ICE’s recent detention and deportation of noncitizen pro-Palestinian students has been part of a wider crackdown on the pro-Palestinian movement by the federal government (and other entities)—and it goes back decades.

Writer: Sanya Monsoor
Art Director: Arsh Raziuddin

The New Statesman

The Art of Writing About India
A book review for Kiran Desai’s new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, her first novel since she won the Booker prize two decades ago. Can Desai avoid resorting to stereotypes about the land of her birth?

Writer: Aditya Bahl
Art Director: Gerry Brakus

The New York Times Opinion

Democrats Need to Understand That Opinions on Israel are Changing Fast
What we can learn from the New York Democratic mayoral primary.

Writer: Peter Beinart
Art Director: Rebecca Chew

The Baffler

Sans Merci
The French far right co-opts feminism.

Writer: Rebecca Nathanson
Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)

The Atlantic

When Realism is More Powerful Than Science Fiction
In On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ imagined a freer world while confronting its inequities head-on.

Writer: Ilana Masad
Art Director: Jo Imperio

Unpublished Artwork
6x9 inches, paper.

The Baffler

The Exploitable Refugee
Displaced people as low-cost labor

Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)

The Smith Quarterly

The Power of Women Voters
By Barbara Solow

Art Director: Bina Thorsen, Matt Willey (Pentagram Design)

The Atlantic

Burning My Mother
I swept her remains into the grass, and still didn’t believe she was truly gone.

Writer: Nishant Injam
Art Director: Ben Kothe

Unpublished Artwork
5x7 inches, paper.

The New York Times Magazine: Screenland

Deep Water
We watch natural disasters differently now.

Writer: Brooke Jarvis
Art Director: Rachel Willey

Unpublished Artwork
6x9 inches, paper.

Politico EU

Turkey's Erdoğan bets big with high-stakes Kurdish gamble
As the president's traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is there too much mutual mistrust for a deal?

Writer: Eleçin Poyrazlar
Art Director: Arnau Busquets Guàrdia

The New York Times Opinion

The Case for Disqualifying Trump is Strong

Writer: David French
Art Director: Sam Whitney

Unpublished Artwork
5x7 inches, paper.

The New York Times Opinion

What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed it’s Most Notorious Prison
Israel’s attack has shattered something deep within the Iranian people.

Writer: Sahar Delijani
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz