January, 2025

Like Clockwork: My longread (4,000 words!) on how the train-and-transit-forward transportation policy of Switzerland (pop. 9 million) can be a model for metro areas of similar sizes in North America. In The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. (Here's the link.)

August, 2024

Pascal's Other Wager: What if the long-term solution to today's traffic jams was invented more than three centuries ago? An essay on the past and future of transit, on the Long Now Foundation's Ideas website. (Here's the link.)

March, 2024

The Future of Public Transit Isn't a Hyperloop or High-Speed Train—It's Your Smartphone: an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about Montreal's Transit App and the benefits of trip-planning apps. (Here's the link.)

December, 2022

This Museum Is Trash—Literally: an encounter with a beachcomber in Puglia who turns waste washed up onshore into Archaeoplastica, a virtual museum of plastic, in National Geographic (Here's the link.)

July, 2022

Living in a Doomed Paradise Where the Sea Consumes Cottages and Cliffs: my longread for Hakai Magazine on how sea-level rise is affecting the beyond-beautiful Iles de la Madeleine in Quebec (Here's the link.)

September, 2019

A Century After Fascism's Birth in Italy, Authoritarians are Once Again on the Rise: my op-ed in the Globe and Mail, coinciding with the release of my non-fiction book Possess the Air (Here's the link.)

August, 2017

Another Good Reason to Make Cities Car-Free: after car-ramming attacks in Barcelona and Charlottesville, I make the case in this New York Times op-ed that security is another good argument for expanding pedestrian-only zones (Here's the link.)

January, 2016

The Dirty Truth About "Clean Diesel" : op-ed in The New York Times, following VW's Dieselgate scandal (Here's the link.)

June 2014

How Denver is Becoming the Most Advanced Transit City in the West: on-the-ground reporting for City Lab (originally published in The Atlantic). Here's the link.