SELECTED ARTICLES
“Pittsburgh’s ‘commonsense’ gun legislation might merely be theater — and a recruiting opportunity for gun rights activists” Postindustrial, January 31, 2019
“The Worst Filmmaker You’ve Never Heard Of: cTom and the new conspiracy cinema” Splice Today, November 20, 2018
“The Fascist Creep: How Conspiracy Theories and an Unhinged President Created an Anti-Semitic Terrorist” Counterpunch, November 17, 2018
"Internet Freedom and Regime Change with Yasha Levine" (Part 1) (Part 2) Washington Babylon, Feb. 14-15, 2018
"Laura Johnston Kohl and the Politics of Peoples Temple" The Jonestown Report, Vol. 19, November 2017
"Silicon Valley’s technolibertarian dream was invented by Timothy Leary" The Outline, Feb. 6, 2017
"Paranoid delusions in the police state" The Outline, Feb. 2, 2017
“How one man turned conspiracy theories and impending doom into a YouTube empire” The Kernel, Nov. 29, 2015
"The Earth is flat and ‘they’ don’t want you to know" The Kernel, Sept. 21, 2015
"James Tracy and the Boston Marathon bombing deniers" Pando Daily, May 15, 2015
"In the basement with transhumanism’s DIY cyberpunks" The Kernel, April 26, 2015
"Wikileaks meets Surveillance Valley: An interview with Julian Assange" Pando Daily, Oct. 12, 2014
"Kicking A Man While He’s Down: Richard Mellon Scaife (1932-2014)" Counterpunch, July 7, 2014
"The cult of Cthulhu: The strange story behind the real-life followers of H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon" The Verge, Nov. 12, 2013
"All The President’s Hitmen" The Verge, June 25, 2013
"Being cynical: Julian Assange, Eric Schmidt, and the year’s weirdest book" The Verge, June 7, 2013
"K-Pop takes America: how South Korea’s music machine is conquering the world" The Verge, Oct. 19, 2012
"Close to the edge: a week on the fringes of the 2012 Republican National Convention" The Verge, Sept. 5, 2012 (co-author Matt Stroud)
"Beyond lies the wub: A history of dubstep" The Verge, Aug. 28, 2012
"When animals attract: Inside Anthrocon, the Furry utopia" The Verge, June 25, 2012
"Mitt Romney goes to Scamworld: Prosper, Inc. and its powerful friends" The Verge, June 8, 2012
"Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster" The Verge, May 10, 2012
"Condo at the End of the World" The Verge, November 1, 2011