Roads & Kingdoms, Issue 1 Included with Conspirator and Fellow Traveler memberships Our annual print magazine includes 144 pages of arresting visuals and in-depth storytelling from writers, artists, and photographers around th...

The venerable Roads&Kingdoms is back with a print issue. I contributed an essay about the fire and fleeing America. I think it’s among my strongest essays.

Do Not Obey in Advance

ICE believes it will never face accountability again The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

This is excellent and painfully necessary & says a lot more than its headline suggests - so it’s well worth reading it through.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

Musk must be delighted they are defacing and vandalizing Waymos instead of Teslas

Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.

How does the NYT do a story about James Frey w/out mentioning his 20 year career as a TV writer and producer? Presumably that’s how he’s made a living. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...

Make up w/ Musk

It’s a Home Depot, not a Reichstag, but you see where he is going with this.

The Island of No Regrets In the limitless, drug-fuelled summer before the publication of his first book, the young writer Karl Taro Greenfeld buries looming disappointments with Europe’s drifters in Ibiza.

On Ibiza, by @karltaro.bsky.social for Roads and Kingdoms, from 2015:

Why I’m Leaving Pacific Palisades My family survived the fire. We want to rebuild. But another, greater conflagration has enveloped us.

I wrote what we used to call a “casual” in The Atlantic