[14] At 24, Hylton was hired as a Contributing Editor at Esquire, where he wrote about the invasion of Afghanistan,[15] attempts to patent the human genome,[16] and the prosecution of alleged nuclear spy Wen Ho Lee.

[17] After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hylton became a Washington Correspondent for GQ, publishing criticism of the war[18][19] and drafting articles of impeachment for Dick Cheney.

Just read it.”[23] Hylton has written for the magazine about bioterrorism,[24] the search for Air France Flight 447,[25] the influence of Breitbart News,[26] and the prosecution of police officers after the death of Freddie Gray.

[30] In 2018, Hylton stated on The Daily that he was conducting secret interviews with the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, who at the time was under house arrest.

"[34] He is a Special Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University[35] and a member of the faculty at the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College.