Project Type: Writing
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Here’s what would happen if Trump ordered the military to nuke North Korea
Published on Vox.com when I interned with their Foreign team in Summer 2017. If President Trump wanted to attack North Korea with nuclear weapons, the hard truth is that no one could stop him. On Thursday, Trump escalated his harsh rhetoric about North Korea by telling reporters that “things will happen to them like they never thought…
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Jared Kushner’s security clearance and how it could be revoked, explained
Published on Vox.com when I interned with their Foreign team in Summer 2017. All interviews scheduled and conducted by me. Democrats in Congress are once again calling for Jared Kushner’s top-secret security clearance to be revoked in the wake of revelations that Kushner attended a meeting with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign…
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I asked Trump voters in Michigan about the Russia investigation. They said it’s fake news.
Published on Vox.com when I interned with their Foreign team in Summer 2017. All photos shot by me and featured on Vox’s Instagram account. It’s been nearly a year since the FBI started an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, the investigation has turned toward examining links between Russia and…
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Ai Weiwei has become a symbol of dissidence worldwide. It shows in his art.
Published on Vox.com when I interned with their Foreign team in Summer 2017. Ai Weiwei has been called an art world superstar, a hero, and a martyr. His work has been displayed in the world’s most prestigious modern art museums and some of his sculptures and photographs sell for millions of dollars apiece. He is…
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Beyond the Binary: Acknowledging Overlooked Gender Identities in the Classroom
Published in American Word Magazine’s Spring 2017 issue. Cover story. It seemed innocent enough. The professor asked all students to stand in a circle to play a game at the end of class. When he asked a simple yes-or-no question, students were supposed to step forward if their response was “yes.” But when the professor said, “Step…
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The Assassination of Kim Jong Un’s Half-Brother Keeps Getting Weirder
Published on Vox.com’s website when I interned with their Foreign team in Spring 2017. The explainer article was shared on Apple News and reached more than 80,000 people. Ten days after Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed at a Malaysian airport, we still don’t know who murdered him…
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A famine is threatening 20 million lives in Africa. Trump’s budget cuts would make it worse.
Q&A with a humanitarian aid expert published on Vox.com’s website when I interned with their Foreign team in Spring 2017. More than 20 million people in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen currently don’t have access to enough food and water to survive. The United Nations has already officially declared a full-fledged famine in parts…
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Spending $20 at the DC Record Fair: AU Students Take the Challenge
Published on American Word Magazine’s website. Fall 2016. Every year, vinyl-loving AU students and DJs head to Penn Social in Chinatown for an afternoon of flipping through record bins. The biannual DC Record Fair welcomes record dealers from throughout the East Coast, listeners searching for newer pop music and vintage record collectors looking for lost gems.…
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4 Female Korean Artists You Need to Know
Multimedia article with links to songs, music videos and photos published in Spring 2016 for D.C.-based music website All Things Go. Watch out PSY, 2NE1 and Wonder Girls – these self-producing Korean women prove that more than bubbly K-Pop comes from Seoul. Understanding Korean is not required to enjoy these chill, electronic songs. 1. Yeseo self-produces, composes,…
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The School of Life: Spirituality in D.C.
Published in American Word Magazine’s Spring 2016 print issue. All accompanying photos shot by me. With new yoga centers popping up throughout D.C. and the rise of yoga-exercise fusion gyms catering to fitness-focused, spandex-wearing young people, it seems that many have neglected the core of what yoga is really about: spiritual development. The School of…
Lindsay Maizland 