Arman Badrei

Arman Badrei is an assistant editor at Texas Monthly, where he primarily works as a fact-checker. A born and raised Houstonian, he has written about the city's Westheimer Road, critical race theory, a death row exoneree, Gen Z conservatives, and the Rothko Chapel. Arman is a former intern and joined the magazine after completing a fellowship with the Texas Observer. He graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on how to build trust in the media. He lives in Austin.