Nick Keppler

Nick Keppler is a Pittsburgh-based freelance journalist whose work has been published by AlterNet, Reuters, Mental Floss, Gizmodo, Slate, and Vice.

MAGICAL MYSTERY MIND

These Therapists Want to Help You Trip on Ecstasy

With the growing popularity of psychedelics, therapists are popping up to guide patients on their inner trips—they just can’t help score the drugs. (Yet.)

Nick Keppler

Brunch Can Wait

MAGA Holdouts Rage as Democrats Party Over Biden Victory

Trump supporters from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Lansing, Michigan, and Salem, Oregon, turned out to try and counter pro-Biden celebrations.

Kelly Weill

‘IT’S GOING TO BE A SWEEP!’

In Pa. MAGA Bubble, Trump Is a Beacon of ‘Positivity’

Trump’s staunchest supporters are convinced of a landslide victory. And to them, anything else is proof of a nefarious scheme against a leader they believe will save the country.

Nick Keppler

GANGWAY UP

Trapped on Navy Ship for Months. Then He Died by Suicide.

These mariners are supposed to be on board a ship for 120 days at a stretch, with time for shore leave. But the pandemic changed all that—with disastrous consequences.

Nick Keppler