Ex-Track Coach Conrad Mainwaring Gets Up to 11 Years in Prison for Serial Sex Abuse: (by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Mike Kessler)
San Bernardino Police Involved in Fatal Shooting of Fleeing Man Both Have Histories of Alleged Excessive Force: (by Molly Solomon, Mike Kessler, and Madison Aument), LAist/KQED
How Psychedelics Helped This Man Get Mentally Healthy: Men's Health, October, 2022
How Mentally Fit Are You? (with Marty Munson), Men’s Health, May, 2022
Your Brain on Drums: A growing body of scientific evidence reveals that playing a musical instrument is one of the best workouts for your gray matter—even if you suck. Men’s Health, December 2021
Former Olympian Conrad Mainwaring Charged with Assaulting Youth Campers in 1970s: (by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Mike Kessler), ESPN.com, February 17, 2021
Is New Mexico Ready for Election Day? Searchlight New Mexico, October 27, 2020
Intruders Holding Handmade Signs with Swastikas, Racial Slurs Disrupt Democratic Party Zoom Meeting: (with Dillon Bergin), Searchlight New Mexico, October 16, 2020
Lawsuit Says Teen Was Lured to UCLA, Molested by Private Coach Conrad Mainwaring: (by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Mike Kessler), ESPN.com, September 16, 2020
Men Accusing Former Olympian Sue Syracuse, Others Over Abuse Allegations: (by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Mike Kessler), ESPN.com, February 25, 2020
Mitrice Richardson Disappeared 10 Years Ago. Will LA’s New Sheriff Finally Determine What Caused Her Death? (non-bylined), LAist.com, September 17, 2019
44 Years, 41 Allegations. Now The Past Is Catching Up: (by Mike Kessler and Mark Fainaru-Wada), ESPN.com,
August 1, 2019
Track Coach, Subject of OTL Investigation, Arrested On Charges of Molesting a Former Athlete: (by Mike Kessler and Mark Fainaru-Wada), ESPN.com, June 2019
Completely Driven: Mario Bonfante Jr.: This Quadriplegic Daredevil Invented His Own Tech to Race at 130 mph. The The Red Bulletin, August, 2018
Life and Limb: Ken Roczen Goes After an Incredible Comeback, The Red Bulletin, March 2018
Antifa Broke My Camera: The New Republic, September 1, 2017
Whose Land Is It Anyway? 5280 magazine (Denver), May 2016
Fowl Play: Who's been killing the feral peacocks of Palos Verdes? Los Angeles magazine, January 2016
How To Tell A Mass Shooting From Gang Gunfire: And Other Lessons From The Forgotten Streets of San Bernardino: A look at everyday violence in San Bernardino in the immediate aftermath of the Dec. 2 mass shootings. The Trace, December 2015
The Fire Forecast: Bracing for a Dry Summer: The California Sunday Magazine, June 2015
I Can Tell You I’ve Been To More Funerals That Are Gun-Related Than I’ve Been Graduations: A series of interviews with residents of Los Angeles’s most dangerous neighborhoods about the role guns play in daily life. The Trace, June 2015
What If The Key To Ending Homelessness Is Just That — A Key? On the “Housing First” method of addressing chronic and veteran homelessness, TakePart, May 2015
On The Waterfront: Going deep with the police dive team at the Port of L.A. Los Angeles magazine, May 2015
The Era of Flying Robots Is Upon Us, and It’s Going to Be Very Cool (or Utterly Terrifying): TakePart and Yahoo Finance, March 2015
Gone Girls: Human Trafficking on the Home Front: On the fight against child sex trafficking in L.A. County, Los Angeles magazine, November 2014
Is 420-Friendly Yoga More Than Clever Marketing? Yoga Journal, May 2014
Prison is the New Mental Hospital: A California measure to reduce prison overcrowding reveals how America is failing some of its most vulnerable. TakePart and Type Investigations (formerly The Investigative Fund), January 2014
The Tao of Rick: I sat with Rick Rubin and listened to music. It was probably the single coolest hour of my journalism career. GQ, December 2013
Ghost Cat: Meet the mountain lions of Los Angeles and the biologists who track and save them. Los Angeles magazine, November 2013
Grass Roots: On illegal cannabis farming on L.A. County’s public lands. Los Angeles magazine, August 2013
Insane in the Membrane: A deep-dive about W.L. Gore, the makers of Gore-Tex, and the competitors who say the fabric giant doesn’t play fair. Outside, March 2012
Does Progress in the Kelly Thomas Case Mean a Standstill for the Mitrice Richardson Case and Others? Los Angeles magazine (web), February 24, 2012
The Pest Who Shames Companies Into Fixing Security Flaws: Wired, November 2011
Crazy in Love: On the science of jealousy. Men's Health, November 2011
What Happened to Mitrice Richardson? An investigation into the arrest, disappearance, and death of a young woman in Malibu, and how the L.A. County Sheriff's Department dropped the ball and tried to cover its tracks. Los Angeles magazine, September 2011
42 Minutes with Harry Shearer: New York magazine, May 2011
The Believer: Short profile of a great American marathoner. Outside, August 2010
Last Resort: For almost 70 years, former ski patroller and local legend Jim Blanning rode Aspen’s evolution from broken mining outpost to chic mountain playground. But when his hometown spit him out, he came back with a vengeance. And bombs. Outside, 2009
Bittersweet Symphony: A trip to Costa Rica to learn about the convergence of gourmet chocolate and the science that says it’s good for you. (PDF) BestLife, February 2009
The Gift of Gil: The story of a man who most ignore, but who changes the lives of those who know him. 5280 magazine (Denver), December 2007
Out in the Cold: How cancer-stricken nuke workers were not compensated by the Feds, despite bipartisan legislation written to help them. 5280 magazine (Denver), November 2007
Free Fall: Profile of extreme skier Jamie Pierre (RIP). Skiing, December 2005
How to Get Rid of a Gun: New York Times Magazine, June 2005
Bark if You Love Howard Dean: An hour at a dogs-for-Howard Dean-meet-up in NYC. Salon, September 2003