He has written for outlets including the Guardian, the Washington Post, Public Radio International, World Politics Review, the Atlantic and Quartz, among others. He previously spent several years in Washington, D.C., as a staff writer with The Hill, most recently covering national security and foreign policy. Before that, he reported on the White House and U.S. politics for the Japanese newspaper the Yomiuri Shimbun. He grew up in Arizona and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.