I have written for a number of publications, most frequently for the Guardian, about politics, labor and immigration, and the Washington City Paper, about the Korean community, theater and music. See below for selected clips.

The Guardian

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Selected clips

• "After the Supreme Court Blow, Unions Should Look to a New Model: The NRA"

• "Child Abuse is Now Part of America's Official Immigration Policy"

• "Trump's Immigration Policies Are Full of Bogeymen and Contradictions"

• "Trump's Budget: The Dream of a Paranoid Strongman and a Vicious Scrooge"

• "We're Still Dissecting the 2016 US Elections - But Missing Key Lessons"

• "With All Eyes on Trump, Republicans Are Planning to Break Unions for Good"

• "He's Already Let American Down: The Reaction to Trump's First Speech as President"

• "It's Race and Immigration, Stupid"

• "Gangs, Guns and Judas Priest: The Secret History of a U.S.-Inflicted Border Crisis"

• "U.S. Unions' Continued Decline Masks New Forms of Worker Activism"

• "On Moral Hazard and Unemployment"

• "Can the Company Fire You for the Way You Vote?"

• "Jobs: The Key Factor That Will Determine the U.S. Election. Or Not"

• "The Reagan Democrat Delusion"

• "When Starving Big Government Ends Up Hurting Big Business"

• "US Unions Have a New Boss: The State"

• "The Union Difference in Health Reform"

• "Beltway Bandit Bonanza"

• "Health Problems at the Big Three"

Washington City Paper

• "Workers' Fights: Unpaid Wages, Uncompensated Injuries, and Unjust Firings: A Look at the Margins of the D.C. Labor Market"

• "Mappers' Delight: Northern Virginia's Korean Community Finally Gets Organized Politically--About Cartography"

• "Hermit Kitchen: How Did a North Korean Restaurant End Up in Northern Virginia?"

The New Republic

• "The Pinochet Myth Is Alive and Well Among Pundits Who Write About Egypt"

• "'Marketplace' Assures Us Bentleys and Tuscan Villas Trickle Down"

• "Why Do Europeans Cause So Many Train Wrecks? Or, the Idiocy of Malcolm Gladwell's Cultural Determinism"

Slate

• "Can Asians Save Classical Music?"

• "Where Have All the Winklevii Gone? The Declining Influence of Ivy League Preppies on U.S. Olympic Rowing"

In These Times

• "A Recent Study Says Unionized Companies Actually Pay Less. The Truth Is a Bit More Complex"

Jacobin

• "The Obamacare Ratchet Effect"

• "Epstein on Bangladesh: 'Blame the Workers'"