John Schwartz is a reporter at The New York Times, where he has writ­ten about sci­ence, busi­ness, law and many oth­er top­ics that have tak­en him from the Mojave Desert to Moscow to New Orleans after Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na. He also writes a humor col­umn on invest­ing for the Times. A Tex­an native, John has three chil­dren with his wife, Jeanne Mixon.