Investigations

Left to Rot: The city of Pittsburgh's wasteland of unsafe, abandoned homes

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 5, 2023

Housing advocates wage legal battle to take over Pittsburgh's blighted properties

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 13, 2023

A landmark law that fights blight began in Pittsburgh. Decades later, housing groups are waging an intense battle.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | February 20, 2023

Judge issues a stay in petition to take over Pittsburgh-owned houses, a setback for housing advocacy groups

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 13, 2023

Commonwealth court strikes down Pittsburgh's rental registry ordinance

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | March 18, 2023

How the Oath Keepers turned Pennsylvania into a far-right militia recruiting hotbed

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 6, 2023

In the Dark: Pittsburgh and Pa.'s unreported FBI crime stats paint an incomplete picture and raise serious police transparency concerns

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | December 11, 2022

Forgotten in Time: Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 16, 2022

Shadow Diplomats

ProPublica and ICIJ

PART I

The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy

Contributed reporting

November 14, 2022

PART II

Agents of Influence: How Russia Deploys an Army of Shadow Diplomats

December 4, 2022

PART III

Shadow Diplomats Have Posed a Threat for Decades. The World’s Governments Looked the Other Way.

Contributed reporting

December 22, 2022

Pandora Papers: A Global Investigation

The Washington Post and ICIJ

The gatekeepers who open America to shell companies and secret owners

The Washington Post | April 5, 2022

How Uber and Lyft get what they want

View non-paywalled version here. View the interactive graphic here.

Crain's Chicago Business | January 12, 2022

51 lost lives: A portrait of the pandemic’s tragic toll in America’s nursing homes

Read the excerpts I wrote here.

The Washington Post | December 22, 2020