Long Form
Mapping Privacy in the Google Age
Reported and Written March 2009 You’re at your desk. It’s late. You stare at the computer, bleary-eyed and bored. You live, perhaps, in Los Angeles. You’re restless. You’re in the midst of experiencing a very real and overpowering urge to be elsewhere. If only you could be abroad right now, you think, somewhere different, somewhere distant. You have... »
Clothbound War Names for Pay: Misappropriation or First Amendment Right?
At first glance, the glaring crimson letters seem to rest on a white background faded and splotchy with use. But a closer look will reveal that white blob to be a collection of letters—letters that spell the names of soldiers who died in, for and during the Iraq War. More than 4,000 names grace the... »
They Lift Their Lamps Beside the Golden Bear, but do They Find a Living Wage There?
Reported October-November 2008, Written December 2008. The 1 p.m. sun hits the statue. Its rays weave themselves into the sculpted hairs of the Bruin’s coat so as to turn the brown bear gold. Positioned on all-fours, perpetually on the verge of stepping off his dais, he is the embodied mascot of UCLA. The bruin, or baby... »