Taylor Maggiacomo

Opinion Editorial on how Trump has pocketed over $1.4 billion from his second term presidency.

Published January 25, 2026 in Sunday Opinion print.

How Trump Has Pocketed $1,408,500,000

SVELTE, ILLUSTRATOR

America Can’t Make What the Military Needs

ILLUSTRATOR

Collaboration with the Editorial Board on how dozens of federal judges have described the Trump adminstration’s actions in court.

Published July 12, 2025.

‘Egregious.’ ‘Brazen.’ ‘Lawless.’ How 48 Judges Describe Trump’s Actions, In Their Own Words (gift link)

PROCREATE, ILLUSTRATOR

One part of “The Brink” NYTimes Opinion nuclear weapon series. Collaboration with W.J. Hennigan, Jeremy Ashkenas, and Guz Wezerek about the threat of nuclear weapons in space.

Published December 5, 2024 and in Sunday Opinion print on December 8, 2024.

What One Russian Satellite Tells Us About the Future of Nuclear Warfare (gift link)

Pulitzer Prize 2025 - Finalist, Editorial Writing

SVELTE, ILLUSTRATOR, REPORTING

NYT Opinion Guest Essay by mortician Caitlin Doughty on why human composting should be legal in NY. Graphics outlining the composting process.

Published Dec 5, 2022 and in Sunday Opinion print on Dec 11, 2022.

If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body (gift link)

REPORTING, PROCREATE, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR

Guest essay by Steven H. Woolf on how the Trump administration is going to make the nation’s health worse.

Published June 30, 2025 and in NYT Sunday Opinion on July 6, 2025.

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (gift link)

DATA ANALYSIS, PYTHON, SVELTE, ILLUSTRATOR

Collaboration with Michelle Cottle on how America is feeling the day before the 2025 inauguration using daily survey data from Civiqs in the style of aura readings.

Published January 19, 2025.

Checking In on America’s Vibes as Trump Takes the Stage (gift link)

DATA ANALYSIS, ILLUSTRATOR, AFTER EFFECTS

Published on October 9, 2024 and in Sunday Opinion on October 13, 2024.

65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza (gift link)

PROCREATE

A look at the discrepancy between transparency of military aid from the United States government to Ukraine versus Israel.

Collaboration with Nicholas Kristof.

Published April 27, 2024.

Why Does the U.S. Arm Ukraine With Fanfare and Israel in Secret? (gift link)

DATA ANALYSIS, REPORTING, PROCREATE

Collaboration with Sara Chodosh and Alexandra Horowitz.

Published on May 9, 2024 and in Sunday Opinion on May 19, 2024.

Has Dog Breeding Gone Too Far? (gift link)

PROCREATE, PHOTO EDITING

Guest essay by Aimee Nezhukumatathil about the Painted Lady butterfly.

Published April 10, 2025.

These Butterflies Fly 9,300 Miles to Survive

PROCREATE, QGIS, ILLUSTRATOR

Guest Essay by Laura Beamer and Marshall Steinbaum about how student loan repayment has been dwindling for years.

Published July 13, 2023

America’s Student Loans Were Never Going to Be Repaid (gift link)

Collaboration with Steven Rattner and Maureen White

Published January 9, 2024

How to Fix America’s Immigration Crisis (gift link)

Who were the key players in Donald Trump’s 2020 election plot? We mapped them out for you.

Collaboration with Norman Eisen and Michelle Cottle

Published August 31, 2023

The Key Players in Trump’s Plot to Upend the Election, Mapped (gift link)

Graphic examining the possible fates of the five Trump investigations as a subway transit map. Collaboration with Quoctrung Bui, written by Ankush Khardori, and illustrated by Antonio Giovanni Pinna.

Published in The New York Times Sunday Opinion on November 20, 2022

Trump Faces Five Major Investigations. He Has Dozens of Ways Out. (gift link)

NYTimes Opinion Guest Essay by Terry Tempest Williams on the decline of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Published March 25, 2023 and in Sunday Opinion print on March 26, 2023.

I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake (gift link)

NYT Guest Essay by Bob Yaro and Daniel Gutman on why the Army Corps of Engineers seawall plan around the NYC area is a bad idea. Collaboration with Quoctrung Bui.

Published June 15, 2023 and in Sunday Opinion print on June 19, 2023.

The Plan to Save New York From the Next Sandy Will Ruin the Waterfront. It Doesn’t Have To. (gift link)

NYTimes guest essay by Carson Vaughan

A ‘Green Glacier’ Is Dismantling the Great Plains (gift link)

Published December 7, 2023 and in Sunday Opinion print December 10, 2023

NYTimes Guest Essay by David Axe

Some of the Best Weapons in the World Are Now in Ukraine. They May Change the War.

NYTimes Guest Essay by David Sirota, Rebecca Burns, Julia Rock and Matthew Cunningham-Cook. Graphics collaboration with Jeremy Ashkenas and Quoctrung Bui.

Published online Feb. 17, 2023 and in print Feb. 20, 2023

Over 1,000 Trains Derail Every Year in America. Let’s Bring That Number Down. (gift link)