In the early fall of 2020, my phone meeting with the op-ed and politics editors of the New York Times went great.
After presenting pitches for several articles, the editors settled on one about the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996 as it relates to populist politics and the spate of federal executions in 2020. As an incarcerated journalist, publishing an article in a legacy newspaper would be a huge break.
