Read my story at The Verge. International automotive companies like Hyundai spend billions of dollars building plants and training workers in the US, and the ICE raid is likely to have a long-term cooling effect on those investments. by Abigail Bassett A banner depicting an Immigration […]
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Your Digital Afterlife May Not Be Your Own Thanks to AI
Afterlife AI is a growing tech sector–and there are some increasingly concerning ethics around it.
The New EPA Car Standards Could Mean More Hybrids Will Come to Market
Read my full story at Heatmap.News. Last week, the Biden administration announced its final car emission standards, aimed at pushing the auto industry to create more zero-emission vehicles. While there’s plenty in the 1,200-page document for policy wonks, politicians, environmental advocates, and automakers to hem […]
The Road Ahead for Rural EV Adoption is Rough
Read my story at The Verge. Every day, Mitch Stults commutes about 60 miles each way from his home in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a town of 17,000 people, to his job as a sales manager for a manufactured homebuilder in Cullman. Stults was driving a […]
How Hollywood Writers & Actors are Coming Together to Support Each Other This Holiday Season
Read my story at Shondaland. n June, as the Writers Guild of America (WGA) entered its second month of striking in Hollywood, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) took a stance; they joined the WGA to fight for their collective […]
The New Social Media Scene
Read my story in print or online at HUGE Moves In the wake of Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter in October 2022 — and subsequent disastrous rebrand to “X” in July — the entire social media landscape is undergoing significant transformation. It was one of the strangest […]
Jenisha Watts of ‘The Atlantic’ on Making Peace With a Difficult Past
Senior Editor Jenisha Watts spent more than a year working to tell her own story of neglect and abuse as the result of her mother’s crack addiction. It now graces the cover of “The Atlantic.” Read my story at Shondaland. enisha Watts’ powerful story gracing […]
MDs on the Cutting Edge of Science
MDs are working at the cutting edge of medicine to support gender-affirming care, use AI to help us live longer, and prioritize brain health.
How Sabré Cook Earned a Spot on the Winningest Porsche Team in History
Read my story at Autoblog Sabré Cook is no stranger to being the only female racing driver on the grid. In fact, she’s the first and only female driver in the Porsche Carrera Cup. But behind the scenes, she’s had a cadre of powerful, talented […]
Four Women, One Pink Lamborghini, and a Race to Win the Ultimate Endurance Test
Read my story at ELLE Magazine. Walk into any motorsport event, and you’ll be hit with the overpowering smell of gas and hot rubber, and the near-deafening sound of revving engines. Look closer—in the pits, behind the wheel, in the team trailers—and you’ll be struck […]
How the “Birds Aren’t Real” Conspiracy Parody Became a Movement for Compassion
Read my story at Cool Hunting. Six years ago, Peter McIndoe fell into character as the leader of the parody conspiracy theory called Birds Aren’t Real. On a whim, the now 24-year-old college dropout created a character who, at least publicly, espoused the belief that […]
Grappling With Our Nation’s History of Hatred: How Do We Remember to Move Forward?
Read my story over at Shondaland. “The Atlantic” staff writer Clint Smith argues that in order for America to move forward and avoid mistakes and atrocities of our past, we have to find a way to atone for them in the present Author, poet, Ph.D., […]