I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans ….

So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-f….

I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go thr….

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lo….

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton..

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and….

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening..

It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about….

I think when I was doing my very first interviews, I probably brought a notepad and did ask people my first fifteen questions while sitting in a Star….

One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with inv….

I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my p….

I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey for people t….

The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, tha….

For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often been heard, or….

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in th….

When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interest….

There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching..

One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at….

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into….

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too.".

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the plac….