Doug Chayka Illustrator

Where is the Peace? “The world is experiencing the highest level of violence since World War II. In 2022, more than 2 billion people lived in conflict-afflicted a...

How Silicon Valley went off the rails. “Even if it were never the intention, tech companies became key players in killing our comity and stymieing our politics, o...

How to make extra money. Your guide to well-paying side hustles. Cover spots and interior images for Entrepreneur magazine AD and cover design: Paul...

“American oligarchy offers a twist on the pilfering of the commons that produced Russia’s. It is built on a different kind of resource, not nickel or potash, but you...

How do we maintain academic integrity in the age of ChatGPT? Client: Liberal Education Magazine AD: Todd Albertson

HB 2127, the new Texas state GOP sponsored law which strips municipalities of regulatory authority, was intended to target liberal cities. But Plano and other...

Without the financial support of Qatar, Germany’s most important economic partner in the Middle East, Hamas would not be the terrorist organisation it is t...

When do “Never Trump Republicans” become Democrats for life? Client: New Republic

At the State of the Union, let's see Dark Brandon in the house. Client: New York Times Opinion AD: Sam Whitney

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout. The gap is increasing nationwide, especially in counties that had been subject to federal oversight until the Supreme...

Can A.I. replace your financial advisor? Not Yet. But wait. Client: Wall Street Journal Reports AD: Sheryl Dermawan

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive. Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us...

Art for Drexel University’s Exel Magazine about nutritional supplements developed by The Food Lab for cancer patients or the elderly that look and taste like d...

Still feeling the Pull of 'Happy Days' The series is the model of a kind of nostalgia that's as miuch about whet we forget as what we remember. Client: New York...

Europe’s Strategic Impotence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a wake up call, but the continent is still not ready for action. 1) Cover art 2) Europe’s military b...

What Made In America Means For The World Cover art and interior series for Foreign Policy on the rise of protectionism. "The problem with U.S. policy isn’t just t...

The New Arms Race. With the war in Ukraine, spending on armaments has increased again. But no one now dares to question the profits of the military...

New York's Rats Have Already Won. "I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong." Text by By Xochitl Gonzalez Client: The...

Cover art for The Economist The threat of the illiberal left. "Superficially, the illiberal left and classical liberals want many of the same things […] But n...

Potentially hazardous additives in processed foods- such as red dye #3, titanium dioxide and propylparaben, found mostly in baked goods, candy, and soda. Client:...

Cover and interior art for the Harvard Business School alumni bulletin. A field guide to recruiting and retaining Gen Z. Managing an intergenerational workplace...

On the psychology of gun ownership: "In order for a gun to feel useful, an individual has to believe two things: that the world is dangerous and that society is...

Cover art for The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind. By Ben Terris Client:...

This Holiday Season Is Looking Ho! Ho! Horrible! It’s a bad signal for the economy that people aren’t spending money, but good for shoppers seeking discounts. ...

"Is the "Bubble Economy" really bursting? Low interest rates aren't as bad as we thought." Client: Barrons

Abortion bans are causing students to radically rethink their college plans: One year after Dobbs, young women across the country weigh their options against a...

Cover art and animation for Brunswick Review’s acceleration issue. *Selected for American Illustration 42

The Big Waste Many clothing online stores claim to be sustainable. But behind their promises there’s an items return system that feeds unnecessary c...

Has Austin Become the NIMBY Capital of Texas? A cost-of-living crisis is at hand, and neighborhood groups command an outsized influence on affordable housing...

Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans. "More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a b...

THE GOP IS JUST OBNOXIOUS It’s why the party keeps losing elections. Text by By David Frum Client: The Atlantic AD: Paul Spella

Russia, One Year After the Invasion of Ukraine "Last winter, my friends in Moscow doubted that Putin would start a war. But now, as one told me, “the country has u...

Together with the wonderful design team at Anyways, I created a series of editorial illustrations for Google Play's evergreen image library to help Google's over...

Earth, Wind, Fire, and Coral. The state of our climate- and one way out of the abyss. Cover art for The American Scholar about two essays: Juli Berwald’s “The Cor...

Art for a package of stories about the future of remote work and changing conditions for office workers, digital nomads, and freelancers. Client: Wall Street...

Cover and interior art for the December issue of The New Republic. America 2050: Will the United States still be one nation? Should it be? AD: Andy Omel Slides:...

The Originalism Trap Section cover and interior illustrations for an essay by Ruth Marcus. Client: The Washington Post

Art for a story by Nick Fuller Googins, telling of his experience navigating a corrupt medical landscape. “Is there such a thing as non-shitty health insurance? C...

Despite the tensions, business between China and the United States has never gone so well. Thanks also to the pandemic. Client: Internazionale Art direction:...

5 ways new grads want to reshape work forever. Cover and interior art for Boston Globe Magazine. Art direction: Greg Klee

After Roe v Wade: The Next Front in the Abortion Fight. Cover art for Harper’s Magazine on the politics of abortion after Roe v. Wade.

How one company embraced the four-day week and actually made it work. Client: Business Insider AD: Rebecca Zisser

The $44bn Gamble. Why Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover could fall apart. Cover art for The Guardian Weekly Art direction: Andrew Stocks

Cover art for The Guardian’s series of investigations into the personal enrichment of the royal family and origins of some of their wealth.

Confronting Russia shows the tension between free trade and freedom. Client: The Economist Art direction: Matt Withers

Cover and interior for School Library Journal, on book bans and censorship. Facing a coordinated, national public attack "librarians are now at the forefront of a...

Conceptual hero image about Medicare for All, for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

TikTok has achieved the dream of every young platform: unavoidability. Now comes the nightmare. Client: New York Magazine AD: Susanna Hayward

How Amazon Exported American Working Conditions To Europe. After Amazon workers in Germany began striking, the company expanded eastward, where looser labor laws...

Art for Brunswick Review's Japan issue, about progressive business models. AD: Frank Tagariello

What Northern Ireland is really fighting for. With the nationalist Sinn Féin party gaining ground on both sides of the border, Irish unity has never been ...

Should American Veterans go to Ukraine? "To me, there’s a moral clarity to helping defend Ukraine that distinguishes it from many modern conflicts. But that has l...

With ‘Stealth Politics,’ Billionaires Make Sure Their Money Talks. What do they actually want? Client: New York Times Magazine AD and page design: Claudia Rub...

Reaching for the bottle is a common response to a crisis. And the pandemic got people drinking — a lot. USC experts looking for solutions to the long-term effects o...

"Like Roosevelt, President Biden entered office in a flood of crises. Over the past few weeks, however, centrists in Mr. Biden’s own party have been chiseling away a...

Inside the Facebook Rabbit Hole: A researcher employed by Facebook invented fictitious “test user” accounts in 2019 and 2020, as part of an experiment in studying th...

If Networking Makes You Feel Dirty, You’re Doing It Wrong. "In one study conducted, the perceived moral contamination of networking clouded people’s perceptions so ...

The Power of Proximity "One of the biggest challenges I face as a White professor teaching mostly White students to recognize and challenge racial oppression is the...

Reopening Schools Is Way Harder Than It Should Be So is leaving them closed. Now what do we do? Text by Sarah Darville Client: New York Times, Sunday Review

Cover art for The Guardian accompanying their Pandora Papers report: "When the rich and powerful stash their money in tax havens, they’re essentially buying s...

A massive leak from one of the world’s biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money l...

Art for a piece about the culture of complicity in police departments and how a lack of accountability allows horrible acts, such as the murder of George Floyd, to...

The Money Issue: "With every spike and lull of Covid-19 in the past year, the seams of the American economy split apart a little more. The rich — including nearly ...

The horror issue: How a century of horror movies reflects our existential fears, the surreal real estate market for ghostly homes, the morbid appeal of botched...

Cover and inside spread for this week's @barrons about global supply chain problems and how companies are running low on everything from soybeans to semi...

"Even as the Trump administration has taken a wrecking ball to the country’s environmental protections, across America environmental leaders are pushing through r...

"This is why we can't have nice things...or can we? Designing data-driven products without humans at the center leads to a pernicious cycle of exploiting tech and...

This $14,000 Air Filter Promises to “Kill” COVID. Is It Worth the Price? Client: Texas Monthly AD: Victoria Millner

Cover and feature illustrations for the University of Utah Magazine about our collective pandemic anxiety and what the history of vaccines can tell us about the...

In an age of hyper-partisanship, adding context to survey data is key to giving audiences the full picture. Client: Nieman Reports AD: Dan Zedek

Art for the review of “How Civil Wars Start,” by Barbara F. Walter, and “The Next Civil War,” by Stephen Marche. Client: New York Times Book Review Art directi...

Series of illustrations for Synchrony Bank: 1) The seven-day financial cleanse 2) Financial advice for new citizens 3) How to withdraw from your retirement...

Book cover for La Democracia, by Ronald A. Dahl. Art originally commissioned by Republik for an article titled "Wer hat Angst vor der Demokratie?" (Who's afraid...

Is Williamstown Theatre Festival a professional springboard, or a place that exposes young artists to repeated safety hazards and a toxic work culture? Report by...

On the tenuous position of adjunct faculty and how it negatively affects student learning and endangers academic freedom. "Ironically, institutions of higher...

Art for Liberal Education magazine about increased faculty retention due to a successful cohort mentoring model at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. "Instead of r...

Cover and inside illustrations for Texas A&M's MAROON magazine, about their matching fundraising efforts. Client: Pentagram Austin Art direction: DJ Stout and...

Personal work / non-commissioned

Series for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, about the role of liberal education in overcoming racism and inequities that have plagued our...

50,000 security disasters waiting to happen: The problem of America's water supplies and cyberattacks on U.S. water infrastructure. Client: NBC News Art...

Illustration for Greg Sargent's forthcoming book AN UNCIVIL WAR. Design and art direction: Ploy Siripant Client: HarperCollins

What is NATO for? The war in Ukraine has revived NATO, but the Atlantic alliance does not have a strategic plan. Cover art for Internazionale Magazine Art...

Two covers (primary cover and interior report display image) about inflation of commodities prices, and how to play it with funds. Client: Barron's Art...

Has Ron DeSantis Let All the Winning Go to His Head? The Florida governor’s increasingly aggressive gambits make some wonder if he’s headed for a fall. Lede and sp...

Lawyers Enabled Trump’s Worst Abuses "The Model Rules of Professional Conduct bar lawyers from abusing the legal process, and yet for weeks on end a cohort of l...

The Labor Shortage Has Empowered Workers "The labor scarcity we’re experiencing is real. But this is an opportunity, not a crisis. […] Imagine that the U.S. had a m...

The Pentagon’s shifting “humans in the loop” thinking when it comes to operating autonomous weapons such as drone and autonomous robots. Client: WIRED

Missing in Action: Europe's China Plan Caught between Washington and Beijing, European capitals seek a strategy. AD: @timball Client: Politico Europe

How do you unite a fractious base and defeat President Trump? No one seems to know, but that isn’t stopping them from giving it a try. Text by Mark L...

Are entrepreneurs happier than other people? The short answer is yes,. But it's more complicated than that. Client: Wall Street Journal Art director: Manuel...

Children’s literature about Jewish experience is obsessively focused on the Holocaust, Marjorie Ingall argues. As a result, kids learn that the worst thing that e...

More and more scientists and philosophers are convinced that free will is incompatible with the laws of the universe. An idea that some consider too dangerous to...

America Has No Reason to Be So Powerful "Eighty years ago, the United States made a tragic decision to pursue global supremacy. The project has outlived its...

Why democracies are in crisis Plutocratic populists reduce economic conflicts to questions of belonging. "Democracies today face a double secession. One is that...

"Lawmakers have sweeping plans to change the foundational covenant between the government and internet platforms. Some experts are cheering, others are wondering if...

Yes, you can retire on dividends. How to build a portfolio that provides a steady stream of income for years. Cover and interior illustrations Client:...

Why the Capitol Riot Reminded Me of War "I watched the video with my heart in my throat — the rage, the chaos and destruction for the sake of spectacle. It r...

Eine Woche Hass / A Week of Hate. Animation about the parallel world of alt-tech social media platforms. Client: Republik Magazine Art direction: Nadja...

The transatlantic relationship descends into a food fight. “In the race to reduce the damage that agriculture is wreaking on the climate, the EU and the U.S. are v...

Former president, private citizen and, perhaps, criminal defendant: Donald Trump’s new reality Essay by George Conway Client: Washington Post Opinion Art d...

Art for the book review of Maggie Haberman’s CONFIDENCE MAN. Client: Washington Post *Selected for American Illustration 42

Optimism despite a historically terrible past year, the conditions facing brick and mortar business locations, and how digital continues to revolutionize mundane...

We’re not ready for the Electrification of Everything "Instead of having fuels like natural gas or oil or gasoline flow directly into our homes, offices, m...

"What if the deadliest pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918 forces local news onto a new and more hopeful path while reawakening readers and viewers to its...

States are no longer content to sit on the sidelines of setting the rules for the internet. Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Maryland are among dozens of states...

The Truth about Fake News Those on the ideological fringes spread most of it, but in the end it hurts us all. Page design by Michaela Lehman Client: Coloradan...

Cover art for the Nov/Dec issue of Mother Jones. Art direction: Adam Vieyra

How Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics Facebook’s chief, once uninterested, has transformed himself into an active political operator in the Trump era. Client: W...

Environmental, social, and governance responsibility has long seemed anathema to Walmart. But the company is quietly making changes and investors are taking...

IPO Market Parties Like It’s 1999 Even in the midst of a recession, investors are pouring money into newly public companies at levels on par with the dot-com e...

"There is no single profile of a mass shooter. Our data show there are five types." Art director: Steven Banks Client: LA Times Opinion

The United States is virtually the only developed nation without a comprehensive consumer data protection law and an independent agency to enforce it. Text by...

"The Trump administration has left almost no part of the immigration system untouched. It made changes large and small, from thundering bans of entire nationalities...

The Big Tech Extortion Racket How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives. Report by Barry C. Lynn. Client: Harper's Magazine

Win or lose, Trump will hold power over the G.O.P Text by Ross Douthat Client: New York Times Sunday Review

Britain Goes Global UK struggles to find its place due to Post-Brexit trade tensions with China and the US Client: Politico Europe

The Permian Basin’s shale revolution is over and renewable energy is surging. What does that mean for Texas’ future? Text by Justin Miller Client: Texas Obs...

Special report series about problems facing the United Nations. Global leadership is missing in action Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the p...

Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show. Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user ...

Washington’s NFL team to retire Redskins name, following sponsor pressure and calls for change Client: Washington Post

Why the Widening Wealth Gap Is Bad News for Everyone "The one-two punch of the worst health crisis and economic downturn in decades has brought to the fore an...

Gaps in Amazon’s Response as Virus Spreads to More Than 50 Warehouses Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert t...

You Can Save One Person or Five. But Not All Six. Hospitals are having to ration essential care. Can they do it fairly? Client: New York Times Opinion

This Is Not the Time to Let the Market Decide When it comes to crucial medical supplies, cooperation, not competition, will save lives. History shows that it...

Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail. "The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund became so deeply incorporated into the bail system,...

"The future belongs to Populism, Authoritarianism, and the parallel control worlds of social media. Is it a crisis of Democracy, or just hysteria?" Client:...

The global coronavirus pandemic is forcing corporate bosses to make critical decisions about their workers without knowing what might happen next Client: Wall...

Breaking the Grip of White Grievance “It’s useful to revisit just how the Republican Party painted itself into a white corner. It was a gradual transformation […] I...

Series about the future of healthcare and how artificial intelligence and other technological advances are impacting care. Topics include: climate change as health...

Creating fake identities using stolen social security numbers and hacked bank and credit card account data. Client: AARP Magazine

The human and financial costs of the COVID-19 virus, and the untested sources of these infections. Fortune Magazine, March 2020 issue. Art direction: Leah...

Illustrations for The Brennan Center for Justice, about varied topics including election security and voter rights. Find out more at BrennanCenter.org

Controversy over "American Dirt" has rocked an entire industry. Text by David Canfield Client: Entertainment Weekly Art director: Chuck Kerr

Why Silicon Valley Fell in Love With an Ancient Philosophy of Austerity In the most indulgent and self-satisfied place in America, Stoicism is all the...

What if the Everything Store can’t stock everything? With its reliance on Chinese manufacturing, Amazon is turning into a case study of how a giant retailer g...

"I had become a full professor and a best-selling author. Weeks later, Denmark charged me with violating my work and residence permit." Text by Brooke...

Is This the Year Democrats Finally Take Down Steve King? "There’s no small irony in King’s demise: His career is sliding off the rails just as the noxious ideas tha...

"Hulk smash. But optimism and hope smash too. Why should we not be happy warriors, even as we prepare to battle our archnemesis?" Text by Jennifer Finney...

Impeachment hearings play big on TV, less so with viewers "The three major broadcast networks and their counterparts on cable news aired wall-to-wall live...

Silicon Valley Is Trying Out a New Mantra: Make a Profit. Text by Erin Griffith Art director: Molly bedford Client: New York Times Business

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class. Art director: Siung Tjia Client: The New Republic

Democrats' Trump impeachment hysteria in the past will help Republicans ignore Ukraine now. Text by Noah Rothman Art direction: Kara Haupt Client: NBC News

As ‘Moscow Mitch’ Rings in His Ears, McConnell Backs Election Security Text: New York Times Editorial board Art director: Sarah Williamson Client: New York Tim...

How China gets American companies to parrot its propaganda Text by Isaac Stone fish Art director: Lizzie Hart Client: Washington Post Outlook

With a presidential election looming, convenience stores face troubles and opportunities both familiar and new. Art director: Nico Heins Client: CSP Magazine

"Politicians should be licensed [...] We license lawyers, doctors, teachers, accountants, plumbers, real estate brokers, marriage counselors, dental hygienists,...

HUD Is Planning a Bureaucratic Pogrom Against Public Housing Tenants. Under proposed new rules, if a single member of a family is undocumented, the entire family...

Can regenerative agriculture reverse climate change? Big Food is banking on it. Text by Gosia Wozniacka Art director: Kara Haupt Client: NBC News

Series of images about the not-so-hidden dangers of tobacco, what smoking does to your body, and how to break the habit. Client: Change Incorporated / VICE Art...

Cover and interior illustrations for GQ inc. Italia’s Summer issue about "Connections". Client: GQ Italia Art director: Federigo Gabellieri

The Real Trump Foreign Policy: Stoking the G.O.P. Base Text by Susan E. Rice Client: New York Times Opinion Art director: Jim Datz

Is YouTube safe for kids? About the app’s moderation problem with “recommended videos” containing dangerous content such as suicide how tos and pedophilic comme...

Why Are ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ Producing Ads for Big Oil? It looks like real news, but “native advertising” is greenwashing for the climate-...

Did Roundup weedkiller cause a man’s cancer? "The jurors will assess the credibility of competing studies that delve into cell mutations, cancer epidemiology and g...

Local newspapers are failing to make the digital transition larger players did — and are in danger of vanishing. Client: Wall Street Journal Exchange Art d...

From Woke Bros to Cold Warriors: The Men of 2020 “So many options, so many possible outcomes. And in the end, voters just might decide they don’t want any man in th...

Cover art for SO YOU'RE GOING BALD! by Julius Sharpe Client: HarperCollins Art direction: Milan Bozic

When you don’t file your taxes for a decade. The Wall Street Journal tells the story of a Texas man who owes more than $26 million in penalties and interest. ...

"Avoiding the pitfalls of hidden biases can lead to better story selection and more inclusive reporting" Text by Issac J. Bailey Client: Nieman Reports /...

"After years of unsuccessful talks and handshake deals with Beijing, the United States should change course and begin cutting some of its economic ties with...

Outbreaks of once-controlled diseases such as measles are rising around the world. A look at the misinformation behind the growing anti-vax movement. Cover and...

The Fate and Future of Democrats and Democracy. Cover illustration for The Nation. Inside page: Lessons from the 2018 Midterm elections Art director: Robert...

"Over the past two and a half years, Facebook’s integrity as a place that “helps you connect and share with the people in your life” has been all but laid to waste...

“Audiences have more choices than ever before. For Hollywood, that might not be a good thing.” Client: Wall Street Journal Art director: Kayla Reynolds

Why the Google Walkout Was a Watershed Moment in Tech. Outsiders have little leverage to force the industry to change. The companies’ own workers are another m...

Google Tried to Change China. China May End Up Changing Google. Client: New York Times / State of the Art

"By spotlighting Saudi Arabia as a murderous neighborhood bully, Mr. Erdogan is now in position to rally the Turkish people around a common enemy, the time-tested...

"Identity politics may divide us. But ultimately we can’t unite without it." Carlos Lozada reviews eight books that argue over how to balance the individual with t...

Noncompete and nonpoaching agreements, like the ones McDonald's employees must sign, keep workers locked in place with no leverage to negotiate for better wages or...

Donald Trump’s chronic dishonesty threatens to infect his entire administration. Art director: Sarah Williamson Client: New York Times Opinion

Why America Needs to Hear Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser. Art director: Sarah Williamson Client: New York Times Opinion

"The digitization of just about everything is not just possible but likely, and now is the time to be freaking out about the dangers." Art director: Minh...

"A better test of tech-worker activism would involve a company with a primary product that is being used to inject misinformation and authoritarian speech into...

At the heart of the trade war between the United States and China lies a profound and unsettling question: Who should control the key technologies that will rule...

HelloFresh blew past 100 competitors to become the No. 1 meal-kit company on the planet. The German startup is winning--but not by playing nice. Text by Burt...

"We’re going from an interconnected world to an interdependent world. In an interdependent world your friends can kill you faster than your enemies. If banks in G...

“Whenever we learn something that’s completely novel to us, we form new brain connections.” Client: Consumer Reports Art director: Tammy Hernandez

The superrich are purchasing historic row houses, combining and transforming them into private McMansions. What will it mean for the future of the...

17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer Art director: Ken McFarlin Client: The New York Times

Cover and interior illustrations for Politico Magazine's 2018 Media Issue. "Trump, has accelerated the cycle of decreasing influence beyond all reasonable...

Robert E. Rubin: Philosophy Prepared Me for a Career in Finance and Government Art director: Jim Datz Client: New York Times Opinion

How Trump Could Rig Our Elections For Years To Come. Cover for Mother Jones, May-June 2018 issue. Interior illustrations are for Cloak and Data, Andy Kroll's...

Cover story illustration about Creighton Law alumnus and students seeking to uphold the rule of law and providing defense to Guantanamo detainees. "This is the...

Hyper-partisanship and dating among young professionals. Art Director: Phong Nguyen Client: Washingtonian Magazine

For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. Text by Farhad Manjoo Client: New York Times / State of the Art

"Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes." Text by Jonathan Greenberg Art direction: Chris Rukan Client: Washington...

"The inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire will both lower the response rate of households and threaten the accuracy of the count....

Cover art for Les Echos Week-End about Instagram as a global showcase, and cash machine, for brands. Client: Les Echos Week-End Art directors: Alice Lagarde and...

University of Pennsylvania Law Journal assembled six experts from across the political spectrum to critique Trump's agenda. America First; A Tax Plan Masquerading...

Did Two White House Advisers Help Push Trump Toward a Shutdown? Client: The New Yorker

"The future will arrive with a slew of slick, easy to use new tools for manipulating perception and falsifying reality, for which new terms have already been...

"Largely absent during the economy’s eight-year recovery from the financial crisis, inflation is on track to pick up in 2018—and it might just catch investors off...

"Bitcoin’s wild price swings have investors wondering how to short the digital currency, as there would be a lot of money to be made in the latest craze in i...

How Trump is increasing the risk of nuclear war. Client: The New Republic

"From 2007 to 2015, the proportion of Europeans ages 18 to 29 at risk of falling into poverty increased from 19% to 24% […] The share of young people now e...

A Crazy Idea for Funding Local News: Charge People for It. Client: New York Times / State of the Art

Energy Transfer Partners could create substantial value for unit holders by cutting its distribution and getting rid of its general partner. Client: Barron's

"Basically, the idea is to identify people you want something from and say nice things to them that you don't mean. But high-caliber sycophancy requires a lighter...

"The internet’s singular power, in its early gold-rush days, was its flexibility. People could imagine a dazzling array of new uses for the network, and as quick as ...

"It’s time for Twitter to scrap one of its founding principles: the idea that it is an anything-goes paradise, where anyone who signs up for a voice on its platform ...

The Man Who Wants to Unmake the West. Europeans are starting to worry that Steve Bannon has the EU in his crosshairs. Art director: Erin Aulov Client:...

"The logic of combining the destruction of health insurance with a tax cut for the rich does make some desperate political sense." Text by Adam Davidson Client:...

"One of the more surprising findings about the Russian influence campaign is its political incoherence. The documents released so far suggest that, as in the...

"How can we reconcile the conviction that Donald Trump’s presidency is a singular abomination with the sense that we’ve seen all this play out before?" Text By J. P...

The Upside of Being Ruled by the Five Tech Giants. Client: New York Times / State of the Art

"When is the best time to exercise or do creative work? Research on the science of timing has answers." Client: Wall Street Journal Review

Are you taking that medication too long? Some drugs should be used on a time-limited basis only. Client: Consumer Reports

In a DC studio, the US government produces a Russian-language news program. Can such efforts combat Moscow's media operation? Client: Washingtonian Magazine.

How Walmart Found Its Footing in the Amazon Era. "To survive the retail carnage that pushed Sears and Kmart toward irrelevance and dragged down success stories...

"In 27 years, Republicans have passed one popular conservative law and spent most of that time voting against things that clear majorities of Americans wanted. If...

What the Tax Bill Fails to Address: Technology’s Tsunami "To those who study how tech is altering society and the economy, the bill looks like the wrong fix for t...

The Hidden Player Spurring a Wave of Cheap Consumer Devices: Amazon Client: New York Times / State of the Art

To avoid a dystopian future fueled by the rise of artificial intelligence, we must move quickly to create technologies that enhance the human brain. Client: Wall...

Tech giants create fears of cultural domination. Art director: Minh Uong Client: State of the Art / The New York Times

Why are Americans so loud? Part of Les 100 Questions, a special issue marking the 100th issue of Les Echos Week-End. Art director: Alice Lagarde

Series of illustrations for a longform piece about the Kardashian beauty empire, their business practices, questions of racial identity, and artistic...

For a review of Walter Isaacson's biography "Leonardo da Vinci". Client: Wall Street Journal Review

"When he started his long-shot bid for the White House in 2015, Donald Trump appeared to know as much about the Constitution as you might expect of any real estate...

"This, in essence, is where we are now: a nation led by a prince of discord who seems divorced from decency and common sense." Client: The New York Times Sunday...

Senator Ted Cruz argues that North Korea should be re-listed as a state sponsor of terror. Client: New York Times Opinion

"President Trump is rattling the rest of the world, too. Having scared a lot of people last week with his bombast over North Korea, causing jitters about nuclear...

A start-up offers a novel treatment that uses data to improve health while cutting costs. Client: The New York Times / State of the Art

"With its obsessive focus on wooing voters who supported Donald Trump, it is neglecting the cornerstone of its coalition and failing to take the steps necessary to...

How to survive a mass shooting. Essay by Kathryn Robinson. Client: Seattle Met Magazine

The first known use of OMG was in a 1917 letter from retired British Navy admiral Sir John Fisher, written to Winston Churchill. Client: Wall Street Journal...

"How Uber's Hard-Charging Corporate Culture Left Employees Drained." Art direction: Ben King Client: BuzzFeed News

Bring Fantasy Into Your Sex Life. For Ester Perel's "Dating and Mating" advice column. Client: Cosmopolitan

What does Steve Bannon Want? There are reasons to worry, but they're not the ones everyone is giving. Text by Christopher Caldwell Client: New York Times Sunday...

The White House is calling on young correspondents from far-right Web sites, to the exclusion of established reporters. Text by Andrew Marantz Art director:...

"Has there ever been a more cynical surrender of Presidential authority? " Text by John Cassidy Art director: Kara Haupt Client: The New Yorker

"A politically awakened Silicon Valley, buttressed by the tech industry’s growing economic power, could potentially alter politics long after President Trump has l...

"Fighting brands online suddenly feels like the most effective political action many of us can take". Text by Farhad Manjoo Client: State of the Art / The New...

"Instagram has been growing like crazy essentially since it went live in 2010, and under Facebook — which bought the company for $1 billion five years ago — it has h...

Historian Yuval Noah Harari makes a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking...

As interest rates rise, finding the right fixed-income strategy is crucial. Client: The Wall Street Journal

How to get the most out of your car trade-in. Art director: Syndi Becker Client: Geico More / Time Inc.

Will Trump Destroy the Dollar? How a clash with the Fed could destabilize the economy. Text by Sebastian Mallaby Art director: Paul Spella Client: The Atlantic

1-The Virtues of Difficult Fiction. For text by Joanna Scott in The Nation 2- Bunte Seiten: On the Literary efforts of French government officials. Text by Gero...

Amazon’s Vision of Computing’s Future: An Information Appliance. Client: The New York Times / State of the Art

The web could soon be fast-tracked for the moneyed few. Prepare to join the queue. Client:Wired UK

The different ways in which parents handle their kids’ use of technology are setting the stage for a clash of cultures. Client: Ted Ideas

Facebook doesn't like what it it sees when it looks in the mirror. Client: New York Times Opinion

Colin Powell speaks out against the Trump administrations proposed cuts to State department and foreign assistance budget. Client: New York Times Opinion

"The American legal system’s handling of violent self-defense has long favored white, property-owning men. Nonwhite, female, poor or gender-nonconforming people h...

"Loosening the fuel-economy rules could remove a primary incentive for big carmakers to catch up with innovative upstarts like Tesla and leave the American car...

The promise and peril in the president’s surrounding himself with former bankers. Art director: Paul Spella Client: The Atlantic

For a review of Ward Just's novel The Eastern Shore, about a newspaperman's career-spanning moral and ethical struggle with privacy. Client: New York Times Book...

Are High Rents Putting Artists in Danger? Why the deadly fire in Oakland worries the Seattle arts scene.

The Republican elite struggles over whether to resist Trump or capitulate. Text by Ryan Lizza. Client: The New Yorker Art director: Chris Curry

Trumps war on immigrants threatens to gut police funding. Client: BuzzFeed News Art director: Ben King

The Online Ad Industry Is Undergoing Self-Reflection. That’s Good News. Client: New York Times / State of the Art

You don't have to be a jerk to be the boss, but it can help- at least some of the time. Client: Institutional Investor

A hardware update for the human brain. Art director: April Bell Client: Wall Street Journal / The Future of Everything

The Alt-Majority: How Social Networks Empowered Mass Protests Against Trump. Client: The New York Times / State of the Art Art director: Minh Uong

"The new president doesn’t simply dominate national and political news. During my week of attempted Trump abstinence, I noticed something deeper: He has taken up s...

Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera. Art director: Minh Uong Client: The New York Times / State of the Art

Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network, of Course. Client: The New York Times / State of the Art

Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants. Text by Farhad Manjou. Client: The New York Times Art director: Minh Uong

Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? Client: Washington Post, Arts ans Style Art director: Michael Johnson

"Mr. Trump can browbeat manufacturers into staying in America, he can’t force them to hire many people. Instead, companies will most likely invest in lots and lots o...

The old divide between left and right is giving way to a battle between confounded globalists and self-styled patriots. Text by Greg Ip Client: The Wall...

Art for a review of Dream Cities by Wade Graham, a book about utopian architecture and its impact on human interaction. Text by Michael J. Lewis. Client: New...

What looks like (and reads like) the truth may be riddled with lies if you look more closely, says neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin. Client: TED Ideas Art...

"Everything must meet its maker, and for email, that time is nigh." Client: State of the Art / New York Times Art director: Minh Uong

"The election of Donald J. Trump is perhaps the starkest illustration yet that across the planet, social networks are helping to fundamentally rewire human...

"Accidents are inevitable. Wall Street needs — and wants — seatbelts and speed limits." Client: New York Times, Sunday Review Art director: Alexandra Zsi...

Behold, Steve Bannon’s Hip-Hop Shakespeare Rewrite: ‘Coriolanus’ Client: New York Times Sunday Review Art director: Nathan Huang

Donald Trump's Made-for-TV Promises. Photo by Damon Winter/ The New York Times Client: New York Times Opinion Art director: Sarah Williamson

Russia Gains When Donald Trump Trashes NATO. Client: New York Times Opinion Art director: Sarah Williamson

Ending a Misguided Cuban Migration Policy. Client: New York Times Opinion Art director: Sarah Williamson

The Burden of One-Party Government. Text by David Greenberg. Client: Wall Street Journal Review Art director: Keith Webb

How the election of a Mercer Island Democrat may spell the end of the GOP on Seattle's Eastside. Text by Josh Feit. Client: Seattle Met Art director: Jane...

For Millions of Immigrants, a Common Language: WhatsApp Client: New York Times / State of the Art Art director: Minh Uong

While We Weren’t Looking, Snapchat Revolutionized Social Networks. Client: State of the Art / New York Times Art director: Minh Uong

American Radicals and the Change We Could Believe In. Text by Eric Foner Client: The Nation Art director: Robert Best

Twitter Has the Right to Suspend Donald Trump. But It Shouldn’t. Text by Farhad Manjoo Client: The New York Times Art director: Minh Uong

"Why I refuse to jail people for just being poor" Op-ed written by Judge Ed Spillane Client: Washington Post Outlook Art Director: Chris Rukan

Simply because a new invention is innovative doesn't make it smart. Popular Mechanics reviews the year's most notable "advances" Client: Popular Mechanics Art...

"The 2016 election was the first presidential contest in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), because the Supreme Court ruled in...

"The greatest country in the history of civilization has become dangerously uncivilized." Leash the Anger, Begin the Healing. Text by Frank Luntz. Client: New...

Silicon Valley Reels After Trump's Election. Text by Farhad Manjoo. Client: New York Times / State of the Art Art director: Minh Uong

Barack Obama and the question of cultural identity. "American society's tendency is not to distinguish between ethnicity, nationality, and class in the modern Black...

"President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican leaders may be determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act immediately, but a few more sensible members of the...

Cover art for The Nation's 2016 Fall Books issue. Art director: Robert Best Editor: David Marcus

In Brown County, Texas, a prosecutor blurs the line between a fee and a bribe. Client: Texas Observer Art director: Chad Tomlinson

"We no longer own our nation’s vast productivity, ingenuity and optimism. Those assets have been bought by the elites who are now poised to run not just the U.S. b...

How Netflix Is Deepening Our Cultural Echo Chambers. Client: The New York Times / State of the Art Art director: Minh Uong

Zenefits, a Rocket That Fell to Earth, Tries to Launch Again. "Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task...But the...

No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their ins...

This Is What It Feels Like To Be The Victim Of An International Romance Scam. BuzzFeed News spoke to women who fell for men that turned out to be elaborate fake...

What's a voter like me to do? Part two: The Progressive. "Clinton voted for the war. She's a tool of the 1 percent. But Trump must not win, and Stein can't. So...

"This year's primaries produced a nominee unworthy of my party's noble past and dangerous to its future." Text by Andy Brehm. Part 1/4 for a series of voter...

Suresh Kumar, CIO of BNY Mellon, argues for collaboration between the old guard and scrappy financial-technology companies. Client: Wall Street Journal / The...

Is AirBnb Making Matters Worse For Affordable Housing? Text by Josh Feit. Client: Seattle Met Art director: Jane Sherman

Art for Joel S. Wit's op-ed about North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Art director: Jim Datz Client: New York Times Opinion

For a review of Tracey Helton Mitchell's memoir "The Big Fix", about her lifelong struggle with heroin. Client: Cincinnati Magazine Art director: Brittany Dexter

How to build the political revolution. For a series of articles about the progressive platform and the 2016 democratic convention. Client: The Nation Art...

A call for a massive reduction in the US military budget. Written by Phyllis Bennis. Client: The Nation Art director: Robert Best

Racism hurts all of us. Heather McGhee on creating a mulitracial progressive movement, spanning race and class.

Ban fracking. Josh Fox on climate change Client: The Nation Art director: Robert Best

"Given that girth has long been a measure of ill-gotten gains, perhaps it’s fitting that the Supreme Court is reconsidering the legal scope of official corruption i...

Don't gentrify East New York. Client: The Nation Art director: Robert Best

“No one who is happy in their lives decides to create 71 fake Facebook profiles and a kid with cancer.” Washington Post report about "Munchausen by Internet", a mod...

"In the years ahead, as China’s Baby Boomers reach retirement age, the country will transition from having a relatively youthful population, and an abundant w...

The Mullahs and Their Missiles. New York Times op-ed written by Ted Cruz. Client: New York Times Opinion Page design and art direction by Jim Datz

Strings Attached. Op-ed by Bonnie Blodgett on the corporatization of charity. Client: Minneapolis Star Tribune Art director: Kim Maxwell Vu

Employers like Starbucks exploit workers with erratic hours and constantly changing work schedules. "Secure scheduling" is the next big labor battle after the $15...

"Women...have taken on an Atlaslike role in supporting American economic growth." Client: New York Times Business/The Upshot Art director: Minh Uong

Series of images about the historic breakdown in public trust in vaccination. Client: Politico Europe Art director: Tim Ball

Illustration for Leon Wieseltier's review of A.O. Scott's book Better Living Through Criticism. March 2016 issue Client: The Atlantic Art director: Zak...

Big-Donor Money Has Not Worked in the 2016 Campaign. Yet. (3/1/16) "No matter who comes out on top on Super Tuesday, this round of presidential primaries has been...

Winnowing out the candidates (published 2/9/16). About the New Hampshire primaries: "Voters representing less than 1 percent of the American electorate may by...

Say yes to a $15 minimum wage (published 2/27/16). Hillary Clinton should join Bernie Sanders in raising the minimum wage to $15, not $12 as she currently...

Don't Privatize Air Traffic Control. (Published 2/15/16) "Some Republicans in the House have come up with a solution in search of a problem: privatizing air traffic...

How wage insurance could ease economic inequality. Client: New York Times Business/The Upshot Art director: Minh Uong

Review of Robert Kenner's documentary film "Merchants of Doubt". Text: Michael O'Sullivan Art director: Emmet Smith Client: Washington Post Style

The truth about the food movement. Client: The Washington Post, Food. Art direction & design: Chris Barber

With American transportation in crisis, why are we spending our money on massive new roads? Art director: Heather Barber Client: Politico/The Agenda

Cover art and interior series for Seattle Met's "Best Places To Live" issue. Client: Seattle Met

Netflix has transformed the way television is made- and how we consume it. Art director: Alice Alves Client: Fast Company

For a review of Timur Vermes' book "Look Who's Back", a satirical novel about Hitler's return to present-day Berlin. Art director: Nicholas Blechman Client:...

On the connection between blighted property and crime. Art director: Kathryn Landis Client: Cincinnati Magazine

On the ideas of economist John Maynard Keynes. Art direction: Lesley Becker Client: Boston Globe Ideas

"What happens when young, rule-defying activists take over the Democratic Party's' immigration strategy?" Art director: Robert Best Client: The Nation

Ben Carson Is Wrong on Guns and the Holocaust. (10/14/15) Client: New York Times Opinion Art director: Nathan Huang

Governor Cuomo's destructive control over New York City's housing budget. Art Director: Sarah Williamson Client: New York Times Editorial

The Conservative Case for Solar Subsidies (1/5/16) Art director: Nathan Huang Client: New York Times, Op-Ed

Art for a review of The Do-Over, poetry by Kathleen Ossip. Review by Stephen Burt Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman Client: New York Times Book Review

How The Pope Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics. Client: The Nation Art director: Robert Best

Using data to measure the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act. Art director: Minh Uong Client: New York Times Business, Upshot

Amend the tax code to respond to growing income inequality. Art director: Minh Uong Client: New York Times Business

Proposals for the city's first new mayor in 20 years. Cover and 8 different interior spots. Art direction and layout: Dan Zedek Client: Boston Globe Ideas

Illustrations for an excerpt from Kevin Carey's book The End of College, about the ways digital learning increases access to education and decreases...

"Genius takes a village", illustration for book reviews of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson and How We Got To Now by Steven Johnson. Art direction and page...

The Nation's Spring Books Cover, 2016. Art direction: John Palattella and Robert Best

Cover art for The Nation's 2014 spring books issue. Art directors: John Palattella, Robert Best

Edward Snowden's extended interview with The Nation, from a hotel room in Moscow."Snowden In Exile" Art director: Robert Best Client: The Nation

"Only God knows who got more votes." Art director: Samantha Wagner Client: Seattle Weekly

Can sensory deprivation detox the digital life? Cover art. Art director: Robert Best Client: The Nation

Spot illustration about apps & gadgets for your car. Client: Remodeling Magazine

Losing patience."A growing number of primary care doctors are burning out. What does that mean for the people they treat?" Art director: Heather Barber Client:...

China's Social Media Revolution. Art director: Annie Chin Client: Scientific American

"The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit". Text by Diego Gambetta. Art direction: John...

Thomas Hobbes and his influence on both right and left wing ideology. Art director: John Palattella Client: The Nation

For a review of Harold Holzer's "Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy From 1860 to Now." Art director: John Palattella Client: The Nation

Is the constitution anything more than a vague labyrinth in which any meaning can be found? Art director: John Palattella Client: The Nation

How the Anti-Iran Lobby Dominates Capitol Hill. Art director: Robert Best Client: The Nation

"Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America’s third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House w...

Democracy On Hold In Haiti: "The terms of practically every elected official in the country have expired, allowing Mr. Martelly to rule by decree since January...

Op-Ed about the harm done to manufacturing and the middle class as a result of global free-trade agreements. "Who's Speaking up for the American Worker?" Art...

The threat of terror at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Art director: Matt Dorfman Client: New York Times Opinion

For former ambassador John R. Bolton's Op-Ed arguing for a preemptive strike against Iran. Art director: Matt Dorfman Client: New York Times Opinion

How to Cheat on Taxes in China. (9/11/15) Text by George Ding Art director: Matt Dorfman Client: New York Times Opinion

Republicans outgrow their position on incarceration. Art director: Greg Klee Client: Boston Globe Opinion

On a court case about the bailout: "Arguing that the (A.I.G.) shareholders deserved even more is like a formerly starving man’s insisting he deserved filet mignon r...

"Racing through patient encounters, we practice with an ever-present fear that we will miss something, hurt someone and open ourselves up to legal (not to mention...

On the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the lack of improved safety standards. Art director: Matt Dorfman Client: New York Times Opinion

On the anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis: How Castro held the world hostage. Art direction and page design: Matt Dorfman. Client: New York Times Opinion

Slacker mentality- Workers who prefer low effort, low wage jobs. Art direction: Annie Chin Client: Harvard Business Review