Mary Queen of Scots
We're planning to watch "Mary Queen of Scots" tonight. I'm reading the book it's based one: John Guy's "Queen of Scots: The True Life of...


Previewing 'Parkland' on MSNBC
I got to talk about the amazing year the March For Our Lives kids had, their impact on the culture, and preview "Parkland: Birth of a...


Last day! (On the 'Parkland' book)
I got the near-final page proofs this week for Parkland: Birth of a Movement. Final changes due tomorrow. I'm going over the most tiny...

Book jacket photo for Parkland
The scariest part of writing a book: the author photo! haha. So I went to a real pro this time. I had new headshots done by Vanity Fair...

Vanity Fair preview of my Parkland book
I worked for months on the big Vanity Fair print piece on the Parkland kids, but when it finally hit newsstands this fall, I was so...


My Instagram Topnine--so much Parkland
These are always interesting for unexpected reasons. Last December, I would not have believed that 7 of my TopNine on Instagram would be...
My George HW Bush reality check as a young journo
I was a cockly journo at 19. (Try to imagine. Haha.) As a sophomore at U of Illinois, I'd landed the politics beat at The Daily Illini,...