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Irregularly scheduled updates about disparate topics—climate change, capitalism, privacy—I'm investigating. This season: background reading for my new book, The Hank Show.

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How to Reverse-Engineer an ICE Investigation?

A number of people have emailed since my ICE story was published in The New York Times Magazine to ask how I was able to learn who the deportation officers were searching for in Washington State databases, and when they searched, and how I got a record of the searches.

Humans in the Loop

Dr.

“We’re not just a public-safety agency. We’re very much a data-sharing agency.”

One takeaway from my investigation into ICE’s investigators for The New York Times Magazine is how states that offer driver’s licenses to undocumented people—now more than a dozen of them, including Washington State—may also be handing a roadmap to ICE.

How ICE finds its targets

Friends, colleagues, strangers who signed up for my mailing list and must now suffer the consequences:

Smoked Out

From the archives (London Review of Books; Feb.

Forever Young

From the archives (Outside Magazine; Jul.

The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz

From the archives (New York Times Sunday Review; Nov.

Should We See Everything a Cop Sees?

From the archives (New York Times Magazine; Oct.

The Exxon Investigation

From the archives (Rolling Stone; Jun.

Breaking the Ice

From the archives (Audubon Magazine; Jan.