Fertility Reporting
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The Baby Died. Whose Fault is It?
WIRED | September 2025
WIRED’s longest-read story of the year | Winner of the New York Press Club Award for Feature Writing
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These Parents Want Daughters—and Daughters Only.
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Designer Babies are teens now — meet their therapist
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To be a good pregnancy surrogate, it helps to be a dominatrix first
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America's IVF Failure
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The Exes Who Froze Embryos and Regret IT
Inequality and Parenting
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Postpartum Depression is Coming For Fathers
The Cut | June 2026
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This Parenting Expert Thinks Your Kids Need More Fire and Knives
The New York Times | February 2026
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I Edited Mental Illness Out of My College Applications. I'm Not Alone.
New York Times | December 2022
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An Act of Witness in Apalachia
The New York Times | November 2025
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The Parents Who ‘Don’t Teach Sharing'
The Cut | December 2024
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The Parents Who Don’t Give Their Kids Gifts
The Cut | December 2025
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The Problem of the Orphan Plot
The Nation | July 2023
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'Troubled’ is a mystifying book about elite hypocrisy
Washington Post | February 2024
Essays and Memoir
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After Working At Google, I'll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again
The New York Times | April 2021 | One of NYT's most-read op-eds of 2021
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How the SAT Changed my Life
The New York Times | March 2024
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What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets WRong
Mother Jones | December 2024 | Featured on If Books Could Kill · On syllabuses worldwide
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America's Most Insidious Myth
The Atlantic | March 2023
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The Bright Side of America's Estrangement Epidemic
Slate | August 2024
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Exercise Was the Perfect Coping Mechanism, Until It Wasn't
The New York Times | August 2022