From the desk of journalist and podcast host Evan Ratliff.

Latest:

> New story out in Bloomberg Businessweek, about the the expanding roles of chatbots and AI agents in the legal system, including AI as coconspirator, as snitch, as lawyer, as witness, and as criminal.

> Season 2 of Shell Game won a 2026 OJA award.

> Season 2 of Shell Game is complete! Despite landing partially at the tail end of the year, the show was a best of 2025 from Vulture, The Information, and The Economist, and others. It was a finalist for both The Ambies and the iHeart Podcast Awards.

> Season 1 of Shell Game was excerpted in an extended segment on This American Life. The team there did a masterful job of condensing it into a one-episode tale. It’s the perfect primer in advance of Season 2, coming on November 12.

> My latest story for Bloomberg Businessweek is out, on the North Korean government’s scheme to place IT workers in jobs at hundreds of American companies. I revealed for the first time in any publication the names of companies like Google, Amazon, Boeing, NVIDIA, and Nike that have unwittingly hired North Korean agents, and had exclusive access to the story of the American facilitator who made it all possible.