Writing
Fortune
Bahamas’ Opposition Leader Michael Pintard at a press conference on FTX’s collapse (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
Gary Gensler has remade the SEC into a crypto nemesis and climate warrior. Now a backlash is brewing November 2023
Circle wanted to create a financial revolution. Instead, it’s losing the stablecoin wars to Tether September 2023
Crypto VCs face a harsh reality in the bear market June 2023
New York crypto bill exposes rifts among key regulators May 2023
Why the biggest players in crypto are worried about Adrienne Harris April 2023
Binance aggressively converted rivals’ stablecoins in a massive cash grab. It didn’t always tell its customers February 2023
Ritchie Torres went from crypto ‘newbie’ to key ally in Washington. Now he could shape the industry’s post-FTX future January 2023
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s extravagant penthouse lifestyle in the Bahamas November 2022
A dodgy crypto influencer got rich on YouTube and Twitter—while the platforms and the SEC failed to act November 2022
Embattled Helium is attempting a second act as a crypto-powered mobile network September 2022
Coinbase’s $1 billion crypto philanthropy ambitions left a trail of disappointment and workers in the lurch September 2022
Rest of World
A pizza delivery business out of a residential kitchen in Mexico City (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
How internet sleuths exposed a celebrity “volunteer soldier” in Ukraine as a fraud July 2022
A U.S. company created a crypto community in Venezuela. Now it has thousands of volunteers June 2022
Tech-stock-alypse now: founders, workers, and investors on the global startup collapse June 2022
How Facebook became working-class Mexico’s favorite food delivery app June 2022
From Argentina to Nigeria, people saw Terra as more stable than local currency. They lost everything May 2022
Food stand vendor in Mexico City (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
As grisly images spread from Ukraine, open-source researchers ask what’s too gory to share May 2022
How Airbnb reshaped Cuba’s tourism economy in its own image April 2022
Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling March 2022
Amateur open-source researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine March 2022
One man’s quest to put Mexico City’s iconic street food vendors onto Google Maps December 2021
A young Argentine was caught in a cocaine-fueled celebrity scandal; 25 years later, Google won’t let her forget November 2021
A digital rights activist in Mexico City flips through redacted police documents to demonstrate the government’s lack of transparency (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
A prominent PR firm is spreading disinformation ahead of Honduras’ elections October 2021
Streamers are beating traditional sports broadcasters at their own game September 2021
Major surveillance firms are ‘gifting’ tools to find a foothold in Latin America August 2021
Police in Latin America are turning activists’ phones against them July 2021
Beyond Silicon Valley July 2021
Brazil’s hottest TikTok celebrities are … English teachers? June 2021
Portrait of a photographer: Oksana Parafeniuk reclaims the narrative May 2021
Funding the future at a snail’s pace April 2021
Rise and fall of the house of Bitcoin February 2021 — highlighted by Longform and Sunday Long Reads
The social pyramid scheme December 2020
Washington Post
Mexico’s shockingly broad use of spyware is a revelation. Nothing will change. July 2021
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador at his daily press briefing (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
Columbia Journalism Review
Disinformation meets the coronavirus March 2020
The Intermediary January 2020
Bivouacing in the wilderness of the Deschutes National Forest (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
BuzzFeed News
Cleaning Up After Forest Fires Changed My Understanding Of Wilderness October 2019
Chosen as a Longreads editors’ highlight: The Misconception of the Wild
The Nation
Peruvian official burns illegal mining encampment (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
The Other Man-Made Disaster Ravaging the Amazon August 2019
PBS NewsHour
Gold mining leaves heart of Peruvian Amazon a wasteland (Video report) September 2019
Peru looks for reforms after mining decimates the Amazon (Video report) September 2019
Los Angeles Review of Books
Enduring Cold War Imperialism: On Vincent Bevins’s “The Jakarta Method” July 2020
Man ordering at Gottlieb’s Deli in Brooklyn (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
Roads & Kingdoms
Keeping it Kosher October 2019
Tortillería Nixtamal in Queens (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
Culinary Backstreets
New York's Street Vendors Fight for Fair Treatment March 2020
Corn Fed: A Tortilla Revolution in Queens December 2019
NYMag’s Bedford + Bowery
After Peter Luger, a Chophouse With Stakes in the New Williamsburg December 2019
NACLA Report
Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels (Review) September 2020
Review of Diego Enrique Osorno’s 1994 (PDF) Fall 2019 issue
World Politics Review
AMLO’s Aversion to Engaging in Foreign Policy Is Hurting Mexico at Home September 2019
Venezuelan softball league in Lima, Peru (Photo by Leo Schwartz)
Deadspin
When Your Country Is On Fire, There's Always Softball June 2019
Latin America News Dispatch
Communities in diaspora are using language to resist assimilation November 2018
Rebranding NAFTA October 2018