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Jonathan Chen

Jonathan Chen

Jonathan writes about psychology and true crime for NothingPolitical, drawn to the same question from two different angles: why people do what they do. His psychology coverage translates research on habits, memory, and decision-making into plain language, skipping the jargon in favor of examples readers can actually recognize in their own lives. His true crime pieces focus less on shock value and more on the investigative and psychological detail of a case — how it was actually solved, what the evidence really showed, and what got misreported along the way.

Jonathan keeps a running list of unsolved cases he wants to revisit as new details emerge, a habit that occasionally sends him down an archive rabbit hole for an entire afternoon. He'd rather wait for a real update than speculate ahead of the facts.

Articles by Jonathan Chen