//Hayden Higgins

Citylab

[Interview] The author and champion of speculative climate fiction reflects on his relationship to cities past, present and future, 9.9.02023

Washington Post

[Reported] A boutique, brainy vision of fantasy baseball, from an Adams Morgan apartment, 4.14.02021

Quartz

[Reported] I went to a kidnapping survival camp for business executives, 6.26.02015

TheAtlantic.com

[Criticism] Arcade Fire Exploited Haiti and Almost No One Noticed, 1.12.02013

[Essay] Moneyball 2.0: The New Team-Oriented Study of Baseball, 5.15.02014

[Science] Manly Faces and Aggressive Men, 1.31.02013

730DC

The following are selected top pieces written for 730DC. I also edit most freelance submissions. Read all our pieces here.

[Survey] Snap Back to IRL, 6.17.02021 + “We Are Between Two Times,” 7.2.02021 (series on COVID reopening)

[Politics]730DC’s 2020 Election Guide, 10.15.02020

[Survey] COVID Is Carrying Young People Away from DC—Whether They Want to Leave or Not, 10.14.02020

[Limited-run newsletter] In 2019 we published the Dispatches from 2120 speculative fiction series by Joshua Kramer, with editing by me and Lily Strelich. (coverage by Washingtonian.)

[Longread with original reporting] House Venues Seem to Be Closing. Can We Be Sure They’ll Come Back?, 12.9.02019

[Q&A]Jason Concepcion, Wizard of the Viral NBA, 2.4.02019

[Local politics] As Washington Roils, DC Simmers, 11.5.02018

[Satire] Power Ranking DC Condo and Apartment Names (list) & Towards a Taxonomy of the Nomenclature of Dwellings in the District (analysis), 9.30.02018

[Q&A] Ann Friedman, Newsletter Genius, 9.23.02018

[Survey] Seattle’s Residents Witnessed HQ1. They Don’t Wish Amazon on Anyone, 3.13.02018

[Q&A] Of Recklessness and Water: An Interview with Skinny Dipper Magazine, 12.2.02017

[Roundup] Pubbed in DC: The Newsletters of the Nation’s Capital, 8.19.02017

[Roundtable] 420 in the 202: The District of Weed, 4.20.02017

[Survey] Dating the District, 7.11.02016

The Idea

Q&A with Hayden Higgins, publisher of 730DC (interviewed)

Mic

How fake reply emails took over our inboxes, 10.16.02019 (cited)

World Resources Institute

From August 02016 to February 02020 I edited several pieces a week for our Insights blog. Since 02020, I am in charge of all our finance content. I also write or contribute to press releases, media statements, quotes and presentations.

I also produced our podcast from 02018-02019, and wrote for the blog about terms to know at COP, the US National Climate Assessment, land restoration in Kenya, and urban biking advice from Copenhagen & Portland.

The Morning News

The Year That Was and Wasn’t, 12.28.02018

The Year That Was and Wasn’t, 12.27.02017

The Year That Was and Wasn’t, 12.22.02016

The Year That Was and Wasn’t, 12.17.02015

Save the Humans, 10.28.02015

Above the Law, 7.17.02015