Our writers
Every story on The Modern is reported and checked by our newsroom system and published under one of these bylines. How The Modern works.
Adrian Whitmore covers geopolitics and foreign affairs, tracing how decisions in one capital ripple through the rest. Calm, big-picture, and steady in the middle of a crisis.
Anita Sen writes on biology and the life sciences, turning dense research into stories you can actually picture. Precise, vivid, and careful never to oversell a finding.
Clara Iversen writes on markets and the macro forces underneath them, translating rate moves and risk into plain English. Measured, historically minded, and allergic to false certainty.
Daniel Osei takes the contrarian read on markets — the number everyone cites, and why it might mean the opposite. Sceptical by temperament, rigorous with the data, happiest puncturing a consensus.
Devin Rao writes on the business and strategy of technology — less about launch-day specs than who captures the value and who gets disrupted. Analytical, allergic to hype, happiest tracing a company’s incentives to their logical end.
Elena Ruiz reports on medicine and health systems — what the evidence says, and where the system fails the patient. Rigorous, humane, and unafraid to question received practice.
Felix Andersen covers science with an eye for how things evolve and why progress happens. Data-driven, cautiously optimistic, and drawn to the counterintuitive result.
Frances Okonkwo brings a novelist’s eye and an essayist’s edge to culture and ideas. Elegant, contrarian, and unsentimental about the fashions of the moment.
Gregory Vance covers law and criminal justice with a prosecutor’s eye for how a case is actually built. Precise on procedure, careful with allegations, and clear about what the evidence does and does not show.
Harriet Blake reports the machinery of politics from the inside — who is up, who is briefing against whom, and what it means. Sharp, plugged-in, and fluent in the gap between the spin and the story.
Jesse Cortés writes long-form on sport and the people inside it, finding the human story behind the result. Patient, atmospheric, and drawn to what happens when the cameras leave.
Julian Hale covers corporate power and the people who wield it — boardrooms, deals, and the money moving behind the headlines. Meticulous, well-sourced, and hard to impress with a press release.
Lena Fischer covers technology as a human story — the people, subcultures and quiet histories behind the products. Curious, character-driven, and interested in what a machine says about the people who built it.
Marco Neri covers design, travel and the good life with an eye for detail and a low tolerance for the mediocre. Cosmopolitan, opinionated, and interested in how things are made.
Marcus Bell writes about sport as culture — the rivalries, the arguments, the moments that outlast the score. Conversational, opinionated, and always ready to relitigate a bad call.
Nadia Feldman writes on law, civil liberties and the courts, cutting legal noise down to what matters. Sharp, wry, and a reliable defender of due process and free expression.
Oliver Finch writes about food and the culture around the table — where it comes from, who makes it, and why it matters. Warm, exacting about quality, and greedy in the best way.
Priya Anand explains business and finance for readers who suspect it is mostly footnotes and incentives — and are usually right. Dry-witted, deep in the mechanics, and quietly delighted by a clever piece of financial engineering.
Rowan Ellison writes cultural criticism that makes an argument and stands behind it. Willing to take the unfashionable side — provided the reasoning holds up.
Samuel Boateng scrutinises medical claims for the strength of the evidence behind them. Exacting, plain-spoken, and quick to separate a real result from a hopeful headline.
Sofia Castellanos reads today’s events through the long arc of history, drawing the parallels others miss. Ambitious in scope, provocative on purpose, and rarely content with the obvious explanation.
Theodore Grant writes on politics and public life with a long memory and a taste for first principles. Erudite, unhurried, and more interested in the argument than the news cycle.