Investigative
 Up In Smoke One in every five Massachusetts fires used to be blamed on arson. Today it’s something like one in a hundred. What changed? Arson investigation now depends on science rather than instinct. This man has finally been freed, but it’s anyone’s guess how many other innocent people are still in jail. (Boston Magazine, March 2011) |
 Perfect Crimes For immigrant victims of sexual abuse, justice is nearly impossible to come by. (Boston Magazine, December 2010) |
 The Long Shadow of Willie Horton More than two decades ago, a governor showed a prisoner leniency, with horrifying results. Our justice system hasn’t been the same since. (The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, October 18, 2009) |
 The Ways of the Gun Massachusetts has some of the country’s toughest gun laws. So why is Boston flooded with firearms? The answer lies inside the city’s thriving black market for illegal weapons. (Boston Magazine, May 2006)
Finalist for the 2006 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. ALSO: Hear Michael talking about this story on the National Public Radio’s “On Point” |
 The Case Against Coke A global, grassroots campaign against Coca-Cola is using product bans and lawsuits to shed light on the corporate giant’s exploitation and brutality in Colombia, India and elsewhere. (The Nation, May 1, 2006) |
 Cruel Justice With a report due out this month about abuses in the state prisons, one inmate’s case provides a glimpse at everything that’s wrong with the system. (Boston Magazine, April 2004) |
 The Invisible Harvest Exploitation. Coercion. Poverty wages. New England has its own Grapes of Wrath, and it’s happening now. Inside the hidden world of the migrant farm workers who put food on your table. (Boston Magazine, November 2002)Finalist for the 2002 Livingston Award for Young Journalists |
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