writing:
- The Unraveling of Afghan Asylum (New York Review of Books, 2026)
- All Eyes on Ice (Lux, Issue 16, 2026)
- What Happened to the People Trump Dumped in Panama? (New York, 2025)
- The Campus Deportation Dragnet (Jewish Currents, 2025)
- The Voters Who Helped Mamdani Take New York City (Politico magazine, 2025)
- ‘He Lost Our Votes’: A Dispatch from Dearborn, Michigan (Politico magazine, 2023)
- The Sick Little Afghan Girl Would Be Safe in the US. Then Her Family Was Denied Entry (Politico magazine, 2023)
- No Children Here (The Baffler, 2023)
- The ICE-to-Haitian Prison Pipeline (The Nation, 2022)
- Othered Paris (CityLab, 2018)
- When Modernism Thrived in South Asia (Cultural critique; CityLab, 2022)
- ‘I Became a Jailer’: The Origins of Immigrant Detention (Illustrated explainer; CityLab, 2021)
- When Welfare Decisions are Left to Algorithms (Q&A, the Atlantic, 2018)
- I Survived DC’s First ‘Sweat Crawl’ (CityLab, 2018)
- The Violence of the Clock in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Monologue at 3 a.m.’ (Literary critique; the Atlantic, 2017)
- The Disorientation of Migration in Bhanu Kapil’s ‘Schizophrene’ (Literary critique, the Atlantic, 2015)
- I am Not India’s Daughter (Film critique; the Atlantic, 2015)
- How Some Black Americans Wore Turbans to Go Incognito During Jim Crow (Short history; NPR, 2014)
- ICE Deleted Death in Custody Reports that Cited Shoddy Medical Care (The Intercept, 2026)
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They Won in US Court. ICE is Still Detaining and Trying to Deport Them. (Mother Jones, 2025)
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‘Essentially Cages’: ICE is Using Courthouse Cells for Longterm Detention (The Nation and Type Investigations, 2025)
- ‘He’s Just a Kid’: The Maryland Teenager Almost Sent to El Salvador (The Guardian, 2025)
- The Fatal Flaw in Border Patrol’s Rescue Operations (High Country News and Type Investigations, 2024)
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ICE Dumped Migrant Mothers and their US Citizen Newborns in Mexico (The Guardian, 2021)
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DOJ Tweaked Hiring to Install Restrictive Immigration Judges (Roll Call, 2019)
- Mapping the 100-Mile ‘Border Zone’ (CityLab, 2018)
Reported essays:
- Sanctuary City in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City (New York Review of Books, 2026)
- The Death of Asylum (Jewish Currents, 2025)
- Force multiplier (The Baffler, 2025)
- Caste, immigration, and Kamala Harris (Harper’s Bazaar, 2024)
- Sex and the Citizenship Process (Lux, 2022)
- An Anatomy of Diversity Plaza (Urban Omnibus, 2022)
- Broader Crisis (The Baffler, 2021)
- The Great (South Asian) American Roadtrip (CityLab, 2017)