INSIDER & Business Insider

I'm a journalist at INSIDER, a new entertainment and lifestyle publication from Business Insider, where I write features, news stories, analysis, and video scripts on a wide range of topics. Here's a selection of those stories:

Multimedia:
One company is teaching schools how to deal with active shooters — and it's making teacher uncomfortable
A documentary that Bernie Sanders made 36 years ago says a lot about his politics today
This cyclist was paralyzed after being hit by a truck - he just finished the NYC marathon
The greatest movies never made
The surgeon who performed the most extreme face transplant ever told us how he did it

Videos:
An artist uses magnetic liquid to make these shapeshifting sculptures
A woman quit her job as a lawyer to make tiny furniture
There’s a remote spot in Hawaii that has spewed lava nonstop for 33 years
The dudes feeding each other chips behind Trump at a rally explain why they did it
An artist created a projector that can completely transform people's faces
This old-school elevator doesn't ever stop moving, and it looks terrifying
This custom, $55,000 wine cellar goes right in your kitchen floor
This crazy clock writes out the time at every minute
Japan has dozens of underground robotic parking garages for bicycles
Slicing things with a knife is becoming a competitive sport
A Harvard scientist who's studied coffee for 20 years explains why the drink is amazing
An artist uses mathematical formulas to make otherworldly geometric sculptures
The best way to make Turkish coffee involves sand
An artist made enormous sculpture beasts that you can play with
Prague has a giant kinetic sculpture of Franz Kafka’s head
A renowned Taiwanese kite designer created world's most incredible kite
The founder of a white supremacist website says Donald Trump is helping his cause
Here's what's behind the recent wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank
What it's like at a training session where teachers learn how to take out school shooters
Bernie Sanders had his own TV show, and one hilarious episode shows him ruining his son's day
Police departments around the US are recruiting with videos that glamorize violence
ISIS is selling oil to the Syrian regime
Pakistan burned $2 billion worth of drugs
We ordered the most expensive Starbucks drink ever made
ISIS loves Toyota trucks
A Hungarian mayor made an action movie telling migrants to stay out of his town

Articles:
I grew up on Roald Dahl's books. He would have hated me because I'm Jewish.
Snoop Dogg told us why he doesn't have a will: 'I don't give a f--- when I'm dead'
Emma Watson is basically Hermione
Some Samsung phones have a 'beauty mode' that 'fixes' your face in selfies
A 23-year-old rapper who refuses to sign a record deal is tearing up the hip-hop world all by himself
Emily Blunt should play James Bond
The story of Pokemon Go's creation explains the oddest thing about the game
The best place to play Pokemon Go is pretty creepy
I caught some rare Pokemon in the middle of Manhattan, and it's clear why people are obsessed with Pokemon Go
Why does Jaden Smith post dozens of white squares on Instagram? An investigation
How to get Snapchat filters from around the world without actually going anywhere
Pokemon Go is augmented reality's killer app
This creepy graphic of the 'ideal' woman proves once more that the 'Golden Ratio' is bunk science
Hundreds of deer live peacefully alongside humans on an island in Japan
Obama has great taste — here are his favorite movies, books, and TV shows
A robot wrote the 'perfect' horror film — and could save the movie industry
Jared Leto tried to outdo Heath Ledger's Joker in 'Suicide Squad' — and failed spectacularly
Meet Frank Ocean, the enigmatic musician whose new album is about to be everywhere
No one knows if Apple's AirPods are any good
Review: 'The Light Between Oceans'
This man was tasked with putting a price tag on Ground Zero's real estate value
Cate Blanchett's new movie 'Carol' has a lot to say about female power
Here are the best moments from the Republican debate (GOP debate live-blog)
The strange legal loophole that lets Hooters hire only female servers
Mike Huckabee thinks there's a law that 'black people aren't fully human'
The director of the CIA secretly helped produce Hollywood's biggest movie about the Osama bin Laden raid
Meet the overlooked president whose name being taken off a mountain is causing everyone to freak out
John Oliver exposed an intriguing link between televangelism and Scientology
Donald Trump would have a hard time getting one of his most zealous policy proposals past the Supreme Court
The crazy reason why 'Straight Outta Compton' isn't screening in Compton
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"Harry Potter" coverage:
Hermione's bookshelf in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' shows how she's changed
​'Cursed Child' reveals the complicated reason Harry named his son Albus Severus
Years-old fan fiction accurately predicted a key character in the new 'Harry Potter' sequel
The definitive list of J.K. Rowling's favorite books
In defense of J.K. Rowling
Ron's character in 'Cursed Child' is everything that's wrong with the book
‘Harry Potter’ filmmakers reveal the most complicated thing in the movies
'Harry Potter' filmmakers spent 6 months designing this one movie scene
The one thing that stumped the 'Harry Potter' filmmakers
There’s only one character from the Harry Potter books who actually existed in real life
One tiny Harry Potter movie prop shows how much attention J.K. Rowling pays to every detail
​J.K. Rowling's new 'Harry Potter' movie is doing the one thing that makes spin-offs work
One scene in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' spinoff looks just like a pivotal moment in the original series
7 questions we have about the weird Slytherin tree in J.K. Rowling's new Pottermore story

Freelance

In addition to my reporting job at Business Insider, I've written a handful of articles on a freelance basis. Here are a few of them:
Bentley University magazine: Entertainment is Everywhere: The world of distributed content
The Awl: We Need More Time to Mourn
GQ: How to Watch Movies Like New York Times Movie Critic A. O. Scott
The New Republic: The Remaking of the American West
Modern Farmer: Fact-Checking “The Martian”: Can You Really Grow Plants on Mars?
TIME: Gamers Come Together to Save London Arcade After Robbery
TIME: Here’s How Two Magicians Created an Illusion That Fooled the Internet
TIME: Watch This Guy Use a Drone to Rescue Another Drone

Entertainment Weekly

While interning at EW, I wrote over 100 essays, news articles, and reviews. Here are some highlights:
Adrien Brody's next trick: turning into Houdini
Amazon to buy Twitch for nearly $1 billion
There Should Be A(nother) Sequel: 'National Treasure'
Amazon: Ebook prices are 'unjustifiably high'
On the Books: Book about Reagan's rise stirs controversy
'Blood Meridian' deserves a director who understands the Western genre
'Expendables 3' leaks online 3 weeks before theatrical release
3 more J.D. Salinger stories published
Amazon appears to be testing unlimited ebook subscription service
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis' friendship will be the subject of a new film
1969 business book becomes bestseller after Bill Gates names it his favorite
'Harry Potter' film producer to adapt Jesus biography 'Zealot'
Note to movie studios: Give trolls their due!
Quentin Tarantino's 'Django' comic book sequel, featuring Zorro, has our attention

Pipe Dream

By the end of my junior year, I've written more articles than anyone else in the history of the arts and culture section of Pipe Dream. I've also edited hundreds of articles published in the section. Here are some of my pieces that I'm most proud of:
The life and death of a lab rat
J. Hoberman: Once a film student, now living the dream life
J.K. Rowling's political side gets air-time in 'The Casual Vacancy'
The sweeter side to a sugar daddy
Renata Adler: Reviewing the ultimate critic
Spike Lee talks college, race and filmmaking
The Making of 'The Rewrite'
In ‘Interstellar,’ Christopher Nolan’s mind is on Earth
Becoming Insta-famous is @effortlyss
Nick Offerman talks ‘Parks and Rec,’ spiedies and the superhero he’d like to play
Trey Songz to headline fall concert
Horsing around on Binghamton’s oldest attractions
The facts behind the acts: how the SA Programming Board books shows
Celebrate the rise of black cinema with these 6 films
Pipe Dream sits down with the co-founder of Reddit
Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, a master
The Bing-U Secret is out
‘Gravity’ is miles above every other film in theaters
BU alum Marc Lawrence writes 'love letter to Binghamton'
Binghamton graduate Nathan Englander writes with dark humor, Jewish wit
Researcher breaks down the impact of Higgs Boson article
Book Review: '1948' by Yoram Kaniuk
'Stuff White People Like' author Christian Lander talks success, racism, humor

Medium

The Commencement Speech I Can't Give
Questions: A Love Story
The Great Jewish-American Novel
Adam Eskin on 'The Fast Food Revolution'
Marquez's mistake
The Problem with 'The Jewish Gospels'
On John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’
Moby Dick is Not a Novel: An Anatomy of an Anatomy
What kind of antisemite was Leni Riefenstahl?
What kind of Zionist was Martin Buber?

Other

The advent of Hitler in India
A Personal Journey with Persian filmmaker Jafar Panahi
How a charter school is closing the achievement gap
5 Reasons This Social Enterprise Developed A Strategy Based on Criminals
Aftercare for Victims of Sex Trafficking: The Love146 Strategy
Here's an interview I did with Nick Offerman while I was the Release Editor of Pipe Dream. I wrote a couple of articles about his visit here and here.