What I Cover

I’m focusing on the U.S. Department of Energy and the impact of the Trump administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda on the public, business and the environment.

My Background

I’ve written about FBI director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation; profiled Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale; investigated how America’s biggest oxygen company has repeatedly cheated Medicare and elderly patients; reported how a private equity firm plundered a chain of safety-net hospitals; detailed a tax-shelter industry that transformed a charitable deduction into a profitable investment, costing the government tens of billions; explained the fiasco that nearly shut down the entire U.S. aviation system; and profiled Trump’s shadowy accountants.

I’m the co-author of the bestseller “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron” and also wrote “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” and “The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders.”

Before joining ProPublica in 2017, I worked at Fortune for 20 years, edited the Dallas Observer, and was on staff at Texas Monthly. At Fortune, I wrote about how Steve Jobs concealed his fatal battle with pancreatic cancer; covered a cyber-invasion that brought Sony Pictures to its knees; and co-authored an account of a coup at Pfizer. The Pfizer story was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing.

My work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, on newyorker.com and in The Washington Post. I live in Texas.