“The Future of the GOP Isn’t about DeSantis,” CNN, January 20, 2022.
“How Americans Can Protect Their Own Democracy,” CNN, January 5, 2022.
“January 6 Was a Test the US Keeps Failing,” CNN, December 16, 2021.
“How Dr. Oz Went from Being Oprah’s Protege to Trump’s Cheerleader,” CNN, December 10, 2021.
“Daystar Co-Founder’s Death Is a Wake-Up Call,” CNN, December 3, 2021.
“Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Just Added Kyle Rittenhouse to His Pantheon of Victim-Heroes,” CNN, November 23, 2021.
“This Is the Best Strategy We Have Against Extremism and Misinformation,” CNN, November 19, 2021.
“‘Patriot Purge’ Has a Chilling Method to Its Utter Madness,” CNN, November 4, 2021.
“‘Great Resignation’ and ‘Striketober’ Send a Message,” CNN, October 29, 2021.
“Britney Spears' Bid for Freedom Comes at a Crucial Moment,” CNN, October 1, 2021.
“How to Disrupt America’s History of Rebranding Misinformation as ‘Science,’” CNN, September 28, 2021.
“What Vaccine Advocates Need to Understand about Religious Exemptions,” CNN, September 17, 2021.
“Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and Ann Coulter Seen in a Revealing New Light,” CNN, September 9, 2021.
“Las Vegas Raiders and SoulCycle Are Joining a Long Tradition,” CNN, September 3, 2021.
“Trump's rally script fell apart,” CNN, August 28, 2021.
“Why Tucker Carlson Went to Hungary,” CNN, August 5, 2021.
“A Political Movement Is Coming of Age at the Tokyo Games,” CNN, July 30, 2021.
“Pelosi Exploded the Myth of Bipartisanship,” CNN, July 22, 2021.
“Why the GOP Is Keeping Trump Bubble-Wrapped,” CNN, July 15, 2021.
“The House Takes a Revealing Vote on Confederate Statues,” CNN, June 30, 2021.
“The Big Problem with Supreme Court's Cheerleader Ruling,” CNN, June 25, 2021.
“The Right Is Panicking over Critical Race Theory,” CNN, June 18, 2021.
“The Shocking Government Leak That Changed Everything in 1971,” CNN, June 10, 2021.
“The survival of democracy is not a given,” CNN, June 4, 2021.
“America's Monument to White Victimhood,” CNN, May 27, 2021.
“UNC’s Slap at Nikole Hannah-Jones Is No Isolated Incident,” CNN, May 20, 2021.
“The Drama in Stacey Abrams' Political Thriller is Unfolding off the Page,” CNN, May 15, 2021.
“George W. Bush Is a Flawed Messenger for Republicans,” CNN, May 4, 2021.
“Living in the World of Pants-on-Fire Lies,” CNN, April 29, 2021.
“Right Wing’s Long History of Deflecting on Extremism,” CNN, April 22, 2021.
“History Shows We Ignore Tucker Carlson at Our Peril,” CNN, April 15, 2021.
“Are You Ready for the Roaring ‘20s?” CNN, April 12, 2021.
“Hunter Biden's Story Is a Window into America’s Soul,” CNN, April 7, 2021.
“Jill Biden’s First Ladyship Is a Long Way from Cookie Bake-Offs and State Dinners,” CNN, April 2, 2021.
“What Jim Crow Looks Like in 2021,” CNN, March 25, 2021.
“What Piers Morgan’s Real Problem Is,” CNN, March 10, 2021.
“How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Alex Jones,” CNN, March 3, 2021.
“Obama and Springsteen's Podcast Reveals a Key Problem,” CNN, February 27, 2021.
“The Man Who Created President Donald Trump,” CNN, February 17, 2021.
“The fantasy that changed female friendship forever,” CNN, February 12, 2021.
“Why Trump's Defense Team Failed Miserably,” CNN, February 9, 2021.
“What Kyle Rittenhouse’s Fate Reveals about ‘Law and Order,’” CNN, February 5, 2021.
“The Fairness Doctrine Sounds a Lot Better Than It Actually Was,” CNN, January 27, 2021.
“Biden Rescinding the 1776 Commission Doesn’t End the Fight Over History,” CNN, January 20, 2021.
“The Final Mess,” Washington Post, January 15, 2021.
“Why Talk Radio Is Ground Zero in America’s Democracy Crisis,” CNN, January 12, 2021.
“The Striking Parallels between the Assaults on Charlottesville and the Capitol,” January 8, 2021.
“The Stimulus and MacKenzie Scott Show Two Sides of the Same Problem,” CNN, December 22, 2020.
“The Christmas Spirit Is Powerful, Even in 2020,” CNN, December 11, 2020.
“What ‘Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘The Crown’ and ‘Mrs. America’ Are Whispering to Us,” CNN, December 3, 2020.
“A Trump Memoir? Thanks, But Let’s Not,” CNN, November 27, 2020.
“Trump ruled conservative media as president. Will he find his next job there?” Washington Post, November 12, 2020.
“Two Americas, One Existential Crisis,” Inside Story, November 10, 2020.
“Restoring American Democracy, One Step at a Time,” Inside Story, November 5, 2020.
“The All-in-the-Family Approach to Political Attacks Has a Long History,” CNN, October 30, 2020.
“America’s Electoral Counter-Revolution,” Inside Story, October 19, 2020.
“Why History Shows ‘Court Packing’ Isn’t Extreme,” CNN, October 12, 2020.
“Trump’s Call for Freelance Poll-Watchers Summons a Dark History,” CNN, October 2, 2020.
“Violence’s Cheerleader,” Inside Story, October 1, 2020.
“Chaos Theory,” Inside Story, August 31, 2020.
“Harris a Safe, But Inspired, Choice,” The Age, August 13, 2020.
“History’s Choice,” Inside Story, August 12, 2020.
“The Loudest Voices Against Women’s Suffrage Were Women Too,” CNN, August 7, 2020.
“Why Democrats Need to Prioritize Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico,” CNN, June 26, 2020.
“Long March,” Inside Story, June 10, 2020.
“A Deep Craving for ‘Normalcy’ Goes Up Against the Reality of Covid-19’s Deadly. Risk,” CNN, April 17, 2020.
“Navarro’s Laughable Claim That He Knows Better Than Fauci,” CNN, April 6, 2020.
“War on States Accelerates US Crisis,” The Age, April 6, 2020.
“US Finally Getting a Reality Check Thanks to COVID-19,” The Age, March 23, 2020.
“Lost in Space,” Inside Story, March 10, 2020.
“The Way Biden Won Should Terrify the Trump Campaign,” The Age, March 8, 2020.
“Only One Kind of Anger Counts in the 2020 Race,” CNN, March 7, 2020.
2020 debate and convention commentary, New York Times, February-November 2020.
“Attacking the Press for Liberal Bias Is a Staple of Republican Campaigns—and It All Began in 1964,” CNN, February 29, 2020.
“Bloomberg Highlights Party Divide,” The Age, February 24, 2020.
“‘Vexit’ and the Demise of Lee-Jackson Day Tell a Story Bigger than Virginia,” CNN, February 11, 2020.
“Iowa Mess Shows Need for Change,” The Age, February 10, 2020.
Review of Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can United to Save Our Country by E. J. Dionne, New York Times Book Review, February 6, 2020.
“Trump Trial Will Still Shine a Light,” The Age, January 27, 2020.
“Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary,” New York Times, January 24, 2020.
“Is Trump Willing to Risk War with Iran to Cling to Office?” The Age, January 12, 2020.
“Democracy Under Threat,” The Age, December 31, 2019.
“The Lies That Are Eroding Democracy,” The Age, December 16, 2019.
“Turning the Disgraced Into Heroes,” The Age, December 2, 2019.
“How Seriously Can We Take the Trump Impeachment,” The Age, November 17, 2019.
“Why Fox News Wants You to Think Impeachment Hearings Are ‘Boring’” CNN, November 14, 2019.
“It’s No Secret Why Republicans Win,” Boston Review, November 13, 2019.
“Don’t Expect Polls to Change Republican Minds,” New York Times, November 10, 2019.
“Twitter’s Ad Ban Worth Cheering,” The Age, November 5, 2019.
“Trump’s ‘Deals’ Selling US Short,” The Age, October 23, 2019.
“Why Trump is flirting with abandoning Fox News for One America,” Washington Post, October 11, 2019.
“The difference between Nixon and Trump is Fox News,” Vox, October 7, 2019.
“Inquiry Vital Despite Odds,” The Age, October 7, 2019.
“Why It’s So Scary When Trump Tweets about Civil War,” CNN, September 30, 2019.
“What Price a Seat at State Dinner?” The Age, September 23, 2019.
“Fiascos Part of a Wider Unravelling,” The Age, September 9, 2019.
“Koch Wealth Reshaped US Politics,” The Age, August 26, 2019.
“The US’s White-Power Scourge,” The Age, August 12, 2019.
“Mueller Expectations Wildly Out of Step with Reality,” The Age, July 29, 2019.
“The GOP’s questions to Mueller seemed bizarre — unless you watch Fox News,” Washington Post, July 24, 2019.
“What the 2020 Election Is Really All About,” CNN, July 23, 2019.
“Billionaire Showed How Deep Alienation Ran in American Society,” The Age, July 15, 2019.
“A Woman Rises to the Top. Will It Make a Difference?” The Age, July 1, 2019.
“Democrats Play the Generation Game,” The Age, July 1, 2019.
“As Trump Tweeted, His Press Handler Made Herself Obsolete,” The Age, June 17, 2019.
“Trump Wants to Make Some People Not Count,” The Age, June 3, 2019.
“Nixon Didn't Have Fox News. Will That Make All The Difference to Trump Post-Mueller?” NBC News, May 29, 2019.
“Anti-Feminist Women Have a Long History in the United States,” The Age, May 19, 2019.
“What Does It Say for the Democrats to Have Sanders and Biden in Front?” The Age, May 6, 2019.
“Charlottesville Wasn't about Robert E. Lee, Mr. President. It Was about Racism,” CNN, April 26, 2019.
“Democrats Must Act: Mueller Report Is a Road Map for Impeachment,” The Age, April 20, 2019.
“White House the Ultimate Winner,” The Age, April 8, 2019.
“An ode to C-SPAN in an era Dominated by Cable TV like Fox News,” NBC News, March 27, 2019.
“The Mueller Investigation Was No Failure,” Washington Post, March 26, 2019.
“Christchurch Shooting Showed US How Dangerous ‘White Power’ Has Become,” The Age, March 24, 2019.
“Putting the Case for Reparations in the US,” The Age, March 11, 2019.
“Why the Trump-Fox News Relationship Really Is Unprecendented,” CNN, March 4, 2019.
“Democrats’ Lurch Left Is in the Right Direction,” The Age, February 25, 2019.
“Scandals Rock Democratic Identity,” The Age, February 11, 2019.
“Trump Well Out of Touch,” The Age, January 28, 2019.
“Trump’s Walkout Spoke Volumes about His Governing Style,” The Age, January 13, 2019.
“The Minefield of #MeToo Looms Large for Aspiring Democratic Candidates,” The Age, December 30, 2018.
“Slowly but Surely, US Media Are Getting in Line Behind Trump,” The Age, December 16, 2018.
“Ever Wondered Why the US Refuses to Act on Guns? This is Why,” The Age, December 2, 2018.
“Everyone Wanted Amazon…Except the Cities That Got It,” The Age, November 19, 2018.
“Five Myths about Cable News,” Washington Post, November 9, 2018.
“Trump Plays Same Cards,” The Age, November 5, 2018.
“The Seeds of Pittsburgh Were Sown in Charlottesville,” CNN, October 30, 2018.
“Not Just Russia That Poses Threat to Democracy,” The Age, October 22, 2018.
“The Midterms Will Be a Pivotal Election—If Folks Can Get Out to Vote,” The Age, October 21, 2018.
“The Rising Tide of Anger,” The Age, October 8, 2018.
“Elephant in Room for GOP,” The Age, September 24, 2018.
“In a State over ‘Deep State',’” The Age, September 10, 2018.
“Trump Wants to Make the Media ‘Fair.’ He’s Not the First GOP President to Try It,” Washington Post, August 29, 2018.
“Trump Impeachment Inching Away from Reality,” The Age, August 27, 2018.
“The Alex Jones Problem,” The Age, August 12, 2018.
“When Satire Doesn’t Help,” The Age, August 1, 2018.
“Ex-Trump Staffers Should Not Get Plum Jobs at Elite Universities,” Vox, July 30, 2018.
“How the Right Became Addicted to Conspiracies,” Washington Post, July 18, 2018.
“Why are Trump and Putin Meeting in Secret?” The Age, July 16, 2018.
“It’s Always Been Hard to Say No to Citizenship Requests from Soldiers. Trump’s Doing It,” Vox, July 9, 2018.
Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew, New York Times Book Review, July 6, 2018.
“Americans on the March,” The Age, July 3, 2018.
“In MLK’s Day, Conservatives DIdn’t Think He Was So ‘Civil,’” Vox, June 26, 2018.
“Trashing the American Dream,” The Age, June 19, 2018.
“Sinclair Broadcasting, Not Fox News, Is Becoming the Truest Heir to Roger Ailes' Conservative News Legacy,” NBC News, June 12, 2018.
“A President Beyond Reach?” The Age, June 5, 2018.
“The New US policy of Separating Immigrant Children from their Parents Has Chilling Historical Echoes,” Vox, June 4, 2018.
“The Democrats Could Still Blow It,” The Age, May 23, 2018.
“The Government Prosecution of a ‘Black Identity Extremist’ Fell Apart. Meanwhile, White Supremacists Are on the March,” Vox, May 19, 2018.
“Unlikely Heroes of the Trump Era,” The Age, May 8, 2018.
“Bush’s Legacy in the Age of Trump,” The Age, April 24, 2018.
“Sean Hannity Isn’t a Leader. He’s Just a Fan of Powerful Republicans.” Washington Post, April 20, 2018.
“Social Media’s Disconnect,” The Age, April 5, 2018.
“Hope Comes Out of the Blue,” The Age, March 21, 2018.
“NeverAgain Student Warriors Might Finally Get Something Done about America’s Massacres,” The Age, March 6, 2018.
“What Nunberg Tells Us About Trump,” US News & World Report, March 6, 2018.
“Trump’s Biggest Mistake on Immigration: His Belief That Something So Complex Can Be ‘Fixed,’” Vox, March 1, 2018.
“Business Is Politics,” US News & World Report, February 27, 2018.
“The Students Have Had Enough,” US News & World Report, February 20, 2018.
“Trump Leaves a Needy US Leaderless,” The Age, February 20, 2018.
“Cruelty Is the Policy,” US News & World Report, February 6, 2018.
“Memo GOP: Stop the Rot,” The Age, February 6, 2018.
“The Art of Humiliation,” US News & World Report, January 30, 2018.
“Trump’s Staff Isn’t the Real Problem,” US News & World Report, January 23, 2018.
“Lewinsky: The Birth of New Politics,” The Age, January 22, 2018.
“The Pre-emptive #MeToo Backlash,” January 16, 2018.
“How Breitbart Became Just Another Right-Wing Trump Cheerleader,” Washington Post, January 12, 2018.
“Enough About Oprah 2020,” US News & World Report, January 9, 2018.
“How To Think about Consuming Art Made by Sexual Predators,” Vox, January 9, 2018.
“This Can Only End in Tears,” The Age, January 8, 2018.
“The Next Front in the Statue Wars,” US News & World Report, January 2, 2018.
“Year of the Women,” US News & World Report, December 27, 2017.
“Impulse Is No Substitute for Policy,” The Age, December 26, 2017.
“Last Gasp of a Dying Movement?” The Age, December 22, 2017.
“The Fight for a Free Internet Isn’t Over,” US News & World Report, December 19, 2017.
“Roy Moore Is the GOP’s New Normal,” US News & World Report, December 12, 2017.
“He’s Going Nowhere,” The Age, December 10, 2017.
“#MeToo Reminds Us Women Are the Hidden Face of PTSD,” US News & World Report, December 5, 2017.
“#MeToo's Roots in the Feminist Awakening of the 1960s,” Vox, November 29, 2017.
“America’s Own Abuse,” US News & World Report, November 28, 2017.
“Headlines Aren’t Enough,” US News & World Report, November 24, 2017.
“Striding Towards Equality,” The Age, November 22, 2017.
“Facing the Sins of the Democratic Party,” US News & World Report, November 14, 2017.
“The Reasons for Trump,” The Age, November 7, 2017.
“Trumpism Without Trump,” US News & World Report, November 7, 2017.
“The Damage Spacey’s Done,” US News & World Report, October 31, 2017.
“The Time for Wise Heads,” The Age, October 24, 2017.
“Weaponizing Free Speech,” US News & World Report, October 24, 2017.
“Hill Changed the Harassment Conversation,” US News & World Report, October 17, 2017.
“Republicans Back the Rich Every Time,” The Age, October 13, 2017.
“Corker’s Challenge to Republicans,” US News & World Report, October 10, 2017.
“Spare Us Another Bubble,” The Age, September 22, 2017.
“The women fighting for white male supremacy,” Vox, September 18, 2017.
“Trump Is No Independent',” US News & World Report, September 12, 2017.
“Talk of a New, Independent Trump Is Just That—Talk,” The Age, September 12, 2017.
“Understanding the Antifa,” US News & World Report, September 5, 2017.
“A Political Disaster Named Harvey,” The Age, September 5, 2017.
“The Brutality President,” US News & World Report, August 29, 2017.
“Packing a Cruel Punch,” The Age, August 29, 2017.
“Making White Supremacy Fringe Again,” US News & World Report, August 22, 2017.
“Why this happened in Charlottesville, my hometown,” Vox, August 16, 2016.
“Road to Charlottesville,” The Age, August 16, 2017.
“Sounds and Silence in Charlottesville,” US News & World Report, August 13, 2017.
“Conservatives Consolidate the News,” US News & World Report, August 8, 2017.
Ideology Out, Hucksterism In,” US News & World Report, August 1, 2017.
“Mr Mean Gets Meaner,” The Age, August 1, 2017.
“Democrats with dreams of impeachment should consider how Iran-Contra turned out,” Vox, July 25, 2017.
“Maverick No More?” US News & World Report, July 25, 2017.
“Trump Turns Career into a Family Affair and Courts Danger,” The Age, July 19, 2017.
“Anti-Trumpers Are Blinded by Nostalgia,” US News & World Report, July 18, 2017.
“Trump’s Privitization Wrecking Ball,” US News & World Report, July 11, 2017.
“Trump’s Wrestle with the Truth,” The Age, July 7, 2017.
“Defend Your Right to Know,” US News & World Report, July 5, 2017.
“How the Trump administration’s secrecy could inspire long-needed transparency reforms,” Vox, July 1, 2017.
“Getting Away with Murder,” US News & World Report, June 27, 2017.
“Welcome to Made by History,” Washington Post, June 26, 2017.
“Rewriting Trump,” US News & World Report, June 20, 2017.
“Words Still Matter,” US News & World Report, June 13, 2017.
“America in Absentia,” The Age, June 6, 2017.
“Obama’s Dangerous Leaker Legacy,” US News & World Report, June 6, 2017.
“What the press still doesn’t get about Trump,” Politico, May/June 2017.
“The Two Trumps on Twitter,” US News & World Report, May 30, 2017.
“The Breitbartization of Fox News,” US News & World Report, May 23, 2017.
“Tagline to Haunt Trump,” The Age, May 23, 2017.
“Roger Ailes's legacy: the road to the White House runs through Fox News,” Vox, May 19, 2017.
“The Triumph of Roger Ailes,” US News & World Report, May 18, 2017.
“The GOP Scandal Machine,” US News & World Report, May 16, 2017.
“A forgotten lesson of Watergate: conservatives may rally around Trump,” Vox, May 17, 2017.
“A Bad Week for Wannabe-Fascists,” US News & World Report, May 9, 2017.
“If Donald Trump Taught History,” US News & World Report, May 2, 2017.
“5 great presidential starts — and 5 historically bad ones,” Vox, April 28, 2017.
“Trump Scrambles to Measure Up to a ‘Ridiculous Standard,’” The Age, April 25, 2017.
“Another Chip in the Wall,” US News & World Report, April 25, 2017.
“The Renaissance of Intellectual Racism,” US News & World Report, April 18, 2017.
“Imprisoning Partisanship,” US News & World Report, April 11, 2017.
“US Strike Was Impulsive,” The Age, April 11, 2017.
“Politics of Resentment, No Guidelines for Governing,” US News & World Report, April 4, 2017.
“Reality Bites,” US News & World Report, March 28, 2017.
“Trump’s Republicans Can’t Tell Rhetoric from Reality,” The Age, March 28, 2017.
“The Emperor Has No Clue,” US News & World Report, March 21, 2017.
“The Rise of Jacksonian Republicans,” US News & World Report, March 14, 2017.
“Trump’s Haters Mustn’t Go Post-Truth,” The Age, March 14, 2017.
“Eternally frustrated by "liberal" universities, conservatives now want to tear them down,” Vox, March 8, 2017.
“The Source of Trump’s Conspiracies,” US News & World Report, March 7, 2017.
“Trump’s Favour to Media,” The Age, March 1, 2017.
“The Dinner and the Donald,” US News & World Report, February 28, 2017.
“President Pence,” US News & World Report, February 21, 2017.
“CPAC’s identity crisis,” Politico, February 20, 2017.
“US Congress Stays Aloof,” The Age, February 15, 2017.
“Be Skeptical of Anti-Trump News,” US News & World Report, February 14, 2017.
“‘This is not who we are,’ critics say about the refugee ban. But what if it is?” Vox, February 9, 2017.
“The Power-Before-Principle Party,” US News & World Report, February 7, 2017.
“A Historian’s Guide to Resisting Trump,” US News & World Report, January 31, 2017.
“Ban Heralds Chaos in US,” The Age, January 31, 2017.
“Fox News = Trump TV,” US News & World Report, January 24, 2017.
“Republican nativism helped turn California blue. Trump could do the same for the whole country,” Vox, January 20, 2017.
“A Media Bully and Beau,” US News & World Report, January 17, 2017.
“Obama Sadly Out of Step,” The Age, January 17, 2017.
“A Farewell and a Warning,” US News & World Report, January 10, 2017.
“Trump’s Presidency Signals Big Shift in Foreign Policy,” The Age, January 6, 2017.
“The "madman theory" of nuclear war has existed for decades. Now, Trump is playing the madman,” Vox, January 4, 2017.
“Republicans Return to Their Roots,” US News & World Report, January 3, 2017.
“Laboratories of Illiberalism,” US News & World Report, December 28, 2016.
“Impeaching Trump Will Be Hard,” US News & World Report, December 20, 2016.
“The Ankara shooting isn’t 1914. And historical analogies can often lead us astray,” Washington Post, December 20, 2016.
“Trump ushers in a new Gilded Age,” The Age, December 19, 2016.
“Why David Brock’s plan to create a ‘Breitbart of the left’ is destined to fail,” Vox, December 16, 2016.
“Our Broken Press—and How to Fix It,” US News & World Report, December 13, 2016.
“A New Global Disorder,” The Age, December 6, 2016.
“Body Cameras Won’t Bring Justice,” US News & World Report, December 6, 2016.
“Tweedy racists and ‘ironic’ anti-Semites: the alt-right fits a historical pattern,” Vox, December 2, 2016.
“We Need a New Freedom Summer,” U.S. News & World Report, November 29, 2016.
“Why Hillary and Friends Still Just Don’t Get It,” The Age, November 23, 2016.
“No Safeguards Will Protect Us from Trump,” US News & World Report, November 22, 2016.
“Prepare for Rollercoaster Ride in US,” The Age, November 15, 2016.
“Trump’s Cabinet of Deplorables,” US News & World Report, November 14, 2016.
“The New Republic of Fear,” The Age, November 10, 2016.
“Liberalism Is on the Ballot,” US News & World Report, November 8, 2016.
“Are we witnessing the end of the Fox News era?” Vox, November 4, 2016.
“Don’t Blame Russia for Trump,” US News & World Report, November 1, 2016.
“Plenty of Smoke, No Fire on Clinton,” The Age, November 1, 2016.
“Make Election Day a Holiday,” US News & World Report, October 25, 2016.
“Anxiety’s Up as Election Day Loses Its Civic Pride,” The Age, October 26, 2016.
“The Destructive Loser,” The Age, October 18, 2016.
“Democracy’s Wrecking Ball,” US News & World Report, October 17, 2016.
“The Real Trump Has Been in Full View from the Start,” The Age, October 11, 2016.
“Trump the Destroyer,” US News & World Report, October 11, 2016.
“No Party for Fox News,” US News & World Report, October 4, 2016.
“Trump Plays the Victim,” The Age, October 4, 2016.
“Clinton Is All Smiles,” US News & World Report, September 27, 2016.
“Trumping the GOP,” US News & World Report, September 20, 2016.
“The Tale of Two Trumps,” The Age, September 20, 2016.
“Donald Trump is what happens when the media choose ideology over facts,” Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2016.
“In Sickness and in Health,” US News & World Report, September 13, 2016.
“Trump Looks for Inspiration to Europe’s Far-Right,” The Age, September 7, 2016.
“How Phyllis Schlafly — grassroots activist, media innovator — remade the Republican Party,” Vox, September 7, 2016.
“Paving the Way for Trump,” US News & World Report, September 6, 2016.
“What Phyllis Schlafly owes feminism,” Politico, September 6, 2016.
“Trump Lets the Curtain Slip,” US News & World Report, August 30, 2016.
“Why Republicans reject the Iran deal — and all diplomacy” (with Tom Switzer), International New York Times, August 25, 2015.
“The Alt-Right Rises,” US News & World Report, August 23, 2016.
“Two-Trump Plan Banks on Unreality,” The Age, August 23, 2016.
“The Takeover Is Complete,” US News & World Report, August 17, 2016.
“Live by the Polls, Die by the Polls,” US News & World Report, August 16, 2016.
“Selling Out Conservatism,” US News & World Report, August 9, 2016.
“Trump’s Shock Strategy Falling Flat,” The Age, August 9, 2016.
“America’s Values Are on the Ballot,” US News & World Report, August 2, 2016.
“Canaries in the Coalmine,” US News & World Report, July 26, 2016.
“It’s Hard to Find Unity When Half Your Supporters Are Holding Their Noses,” The Age, July 26, 2016.
“Why the vice presidency matters,” The Atlantic, July 21, 2016.
“The Law-and-Disorder Candidate,” US News & World Report, July 19, 2016.
“All About the Hoosiers,” US News & World Report, July 12, 2016.
“They were made for each other,” (with Brent Cebul), The New Republic, July 11, 2016.
“How Phyllis Schlafly — grassroots activist, media innovator — remade the Republican Party,” Vox, September 7, 2016.
“Making America Hate Again,” US News & World Report, July 5, 2016.
“The Clinton Paranoia,” The Age, July 12, 2016.
“The State of Your Rights,” US News & World Report, June 28, 2016.
“US Democrats Looking Down Barrel of a Schism,” The Age, June 28, 2016.
“The Trump Campaign Is MIA,” US News & World Report, June 21, 2016.
“Trump’s Orlando Speech Was a New Low,” US News & World Report, June 14, 2016.
“Clinton Finally Claims Her Message,” The Age, June 14, 2016.
“Hillary Deserves Celebration,” US News & World Report, June 7, 2016.
“Billionaires Won’t Save Us,” US News & World Report, May 31, 2016.
“All-Women Ticket the Perfect Match,” The Age, May 31, 2016.
“Trump: Newt Gingrich’s Legitimate Heir,” US News & World Report, May 24, 2016.
“GOP Challenger: An Inside Job,” US News & World Report, May 17, 2016.
“We Can’t Typecast Trump,” The Age, May 17, 2016.
“Conservative Capitulation,” US News & World Report, May 10, 2016.
“Foreign Policy Friction,” US News & World Report, May 3, 2016.
“Trump Emerging with a Coherent Foreign Policy,” The Age, May 3, 2016.
“The Revolution on the $20,” US News & World Report, April 26, 2016.
“Confusing Rules for Rigged Elections,” US News & World Report, April 20, 2016.
“Hillary Clinton’s Task Is to Unify US Democrats,” The Age, April 19, 2016.
“Ryan’s Wise 2016 Reluctance,” US News & World Report, April 12, 2016.
“Trump Is Stuck in the ‘90s,” US News & World Report, April 5, 2016.
“Trump’s Big Mouth Fires Up the Feminist Fight,” The Age, April 5, 2016.
“Donald’s Bet: Virility Trumps Virtue,” US News & World Report, March 29, 2016.
“Goldwater Was No. Trump,” US News & World Report, March 22, 2016.
“Republicans Have a Moral Duty to Stump Trump,” The Age, March 22, 2016.
“Trump Is Gaslighting America,” US News & World Report, March 15, 2016.
“Neocons in the Wilderness,” US News & World Report, March 8, 2016.
“Will the Real Republican Party Please Stand Up,” The Age, March 8, 2016.
“No Party for Racists,” US News & World Report, March 1, 2016.
“Kasich Is the New Biden,” US News & World Report, February 23, 2016.
“Century of Supreme Showdowns,” US News & World Report, February 17, 2016.
“Two Reasons the Republican Presidential Race Is Still Such a Mess,” (with Tony Lucadamo), Washington Post, February 16, 2016.
“The GOP’s Post Scalia Bind,” US News & World Report, February 15, 2015.
“Conservatives have waged a 50-year war to prove the news media can't be trusted,” The New Republic, February 13, 2015.
“The Pundit Prediction Problem,” US News & World Report, February 9, 2016.
“Cruz’s Win Is Iowa’s Loss,” US News & World Report, February 2, 2016.
“‘Against Trump"‘ But Not Against Hypocrisy,” US News & World Report, January 26, 2016.
“The New York Populist,” US News & World Report, January 19, 2016.
“Beyond Obama’s Reach,” US News & World Report, January 12, 2016.
“No Benefit of the Doubt,” US News & World Report, January 5, 2016.
“The Coming Conservative Collapse,” US News & World Report, December 29, 2015.
“How the Grinch Stole the Election,” US News & World Report, December 21, 2015.
“Heart of Darkness,” US News & World Report, December 15, 2015.
“The Age of the Gun,” US News & World Report, December 8, 2015.
“Who Are Trump’s Supporters?” US News & World Report, December 1, 2015.
“Thanksgiving at the White House,” US News & World Report, November 24, 2015.
“The Right’s ‘Radical Islam’ Problem,” US News & World Report, November 17, 2015.
“Victory at Mizzou,” US News & World Report, November 10, 2015.
“Path to the Amateur Presidency,” US News & World Report, November 3, 2015.
“The Party Is Over,” US News & World Report, October 27, 2015.
“The Power of Laughter,” US News & World Report, October 20, 2015.
“For 2016, Boring Is Smart,” US News & World Report, October 13, 2015.
“Life in the Age of the Gun,” US News & World Report, October 6, 2015.
“No Faith in Democracy,” US News & World Report, September 29, 2015.
“The Religious Left Lives,” US News & World Report, September 22, 2015.
“One Issue to Rule Them All,” US News & World Report, September 15, 2015.
“A Long Line of Lawbreakers,” US News & World Report, September 7, 2015.
“Meet the New Republicans,” US News & World Report, September 1, 2015.
“Birthright Citizenship Is Exceptionally American,” US News & World Report, August 25, 2015.
“The Power of the Post-Presidency,” US News & World Report, August 18, 2015.
“Fox News, You’re Fired,” US News & World Report, August 11, 2015.
What the Right Gets Wrong About AP History,” US News & World Report, August 4, 2015.
“The Trump Bubble Will Burst,” US News & World Report, July 28, 2015.
“The Dream Never Came True,” US News & World Report, July 21, 2015.
“Down in the Nativist Muck,” US News & World Report, July 14, 2015.
“Love, Actually,” US News & World Report, July 7, 2015.
“Obama and Race, from Hope to Grace,” US News & World Report, June 30, 2015.
“Those Two Other Flags,” US News & World Report, June 23, 2015.
“Speaking of Family,” US News & World Report, June 16, 2015.
“The Image Says Everything,” US News & World Report, June 9, 2015.
“The Moderate GOP’s Last Gasp,” US News & World Report, June 2, 2015.
“Fool’s Gold,” US News & World Report, May 26, 2015.
“Enemy of the State,” US News & World Report, May 19, 2015.
“Pamela Geller Is No Rosa Parks,” US News & World Report, May 12, 2015.
“The Freedom to Offend,” US News & World Report, May 5, 2015.
“Campaign Calories Don’t Count,” US News & World Report, April 29, 2015.
“Marriage Equality Is (Nearly) Here to Stay,” US News & World Report, April 21, 2015.
“Nothing New Here,” US News & World Report, April 14, 2015.
“Not That Different At All,” US News & World Report, April 7, 2015.
“A Weapon for Discrimination,” US News & World Report, March 31, 2015.
“Can Jeb Bush Break Conservative Media?” US News & World Report, March 24, 2015.
“Huckster in Chief,” US News & World Report, March 17, 2015.
“The GOP and the Future of Voting Rights,” US News & World Report, March 10, 2015.
“Do Liberals Want ‘Parks and Rec’ or ‘House of Cards’? US News & World Report, March 3, 2015.
“Blame Jon Stewart for MSNBC’s Woes,” US News & World Report, February 24, 2015.
“Ideology in the Classroom,” US News & World Report, February 17, 2015.
“Love and the Presidency,” US News & World Report, February 10, 2015.
“Vaccines Aren’t Partisan,” US News & World Report, February 3, 2015.
“Palin the Entertainer,” US News & World Report, January 27, 2015.
“Mitt Happens,” US News & World Report, January 20, 2015.
“A Community College Plan of Their Own,” US News & World Report, January 13, 2015.
“Rhetoric, Not Reform,” US News & World Report, January 6, 2015.
“A Matter of Reform,” US News & World Report, December 30, 2014.
“Sony Should Stand Up to the Threats,” US News & World Report, December 23, 2014.
“We’re All Dick Cheney,” US News & World Report, December 15, 2014.
“Turning Victims Into Victimizers,” US News & World Report, December 9, 2014.
“What Joe Scarborough Doesn’t Get About Ferguson,” US News & World Report, December 2, 2014.
“The missing women of the Supreme Court,” American Review, November 2014.
“Giving Thanks for Their Labor,” US News & World Report, November 25, 2014.
“Why Obama Should Lead on Immigration,” US News & World Report, November 18, 2014.
“A Hillary Coronation Would Hurt Democrats,” US News & World Report, November 11, 2014.
“Reform or Die?” US News & World Report, November 4, 2014.
“The Reagan Myth Distilled,” US News & World Report, October 28, 2014.
“The Real Reason for Voter ID Laws,” US News & World Report, October 21, 2014.
“An Immoral Texas Law Gets Nixed,” US News & World Report, October 14, 2014.
“War on Women 2.0,” US News & World Report, October 7, 2014.
“The Internet Won’t Forge, So Society Must,” US News & World Report, September 2, 2014.
“The Rise of Right-Wing Pseudo-History,” US News & World Report, August 26, 2014.
“Libertarians Face a Ferguson Challenge,” US News & World Report, August 19, 2014.
“Morning in Hillary Clinton’s America,” US News & World Report, August 12, 2014.
“Nixon’s Realignment,” US News & World Report, August 5, 2014.
“Dinesh D’Souza Stokes the Conspiracy Fires,” US News & World Report, July 29, 2014.
“The Tea Party Down Under,” US News & World Report, July 22, 2014.
“Glenn Beck’s Compassionate Conservatism,” US News & World Report, July 15, 2014.
“Messing with Your Mind?” US News & World Report, July 8, 2014.
“The Supreme Court’s Bad Business Bias,” US News & World Report, July 1, 2014.
“Clinton’s Foreign Policy Coup,” US News & World Report, June 24, 2014.
“The ‘Blameless Bush’ Crowd Gets Iraq All Wrong,” US News & World Report, June 17, 2014.
“The Obama Impeachment Movement Is Not Serious,” US News & World Report, June 10, 2014.
“Conservatives Vanish from Commencement,” US News & World Report, June 3, 2014.
“What the Tea Party Is and Isn’t,” US News & World Report, May 27, 2014.
“Separate and Unequal, All Over Again,” US News & World Report, May 20, 2014.
“The Three Books That Shook Conservative Media in 1964,” The Atlantic, May 20, 2014.
“The Food Industry’s Sweet Deal,” US News & World Report, May 13, 2014.
“Benghazi Is No Watergate,” US News & World Report, May 6, 2014.
“How Glenn Beck Dodged Cliven Bundy,” US News & World Report, April 29, 2014.
“Is Common Core the New Obamacare?” US News & World Report, April 22, 2014.
“Wither the Tea Party,” US News & World Report, April 15, 2014.
“Jeb Bush, the New Compassionate Conservative,” US News & World Report, April 8, 2014.
“A Free Speech Debate Down Under,” US News & World Report, April 1, 2014.
“Why Hobby Lobby Should Lose,” US News & World Report, March 25, 2014.
“Learning to Laugh,” US News & World Report, March 18, 2014.
“Bust the Reagan Myth,” US News & World Report, March 11, 2014.
“A Place for Atheists?” US News & World Report, March 4, 2014.
“Bigotry Is Bad for Business,” US News & World Report, February 25, 2014.
From ‘The West Wing’ to ‘House of Cards,’” US News & World Report, February 18, 2014.
“Conservative Media’s Next War,” US News & World Report, February 11, 2014.
“The Fox News Disconnect,” US News & World Report, February 4, 2014.
“Pen Approach Won’t Write Obama Into History,” The Age, January 30, 2014.
“Fix the Real Problem—Congress,” US News & World Report, January 28, 2014.
“Hillary Clinton’s Dynasty Problem,” US News & World Report, January 21, 2014.
“The Conservative War on Liberal Media Has a Long History,” The Atlantic, January 17, 2014.
“Fox’s Forebears,” US News & World Report, January 14, 2014.
“Sitting Out the War on Poverty,” US News & World Report, January 7, 2014.
“Fed Up With the Tea Party,” US News & World Report, December 31, 2013.
“‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in D.C.,” US News & World Report, December 24, 2013.
“The Pontiff Versus the Pontificator,” US News & World Report, December 17, 2013.
“Shining a Light on the Politics of Poverty,” US News & World Report, December 10, 2013.
“Liberals Should Give Up on Talk Radio,” US News & World Report, December 3, 2013.
“GOP’s Anti-Obama Stance Hurts Its Shot at Foreign Policy Comeback,” Christian Science Monitor, August 14, 2013.
“Creeping Peril of Obama’s Security State on Steroids,” The Australian, June 12, 2013.
“After IRS Scandal: Right-Wing Fear of Government Isn’t Paranoid,” Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2013.
“Guarding the right’s flank,” Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2013.
“Women Sold Out for Catholic Vote,” The Australian, January 23, 2013.
“Nixon: New Respect for ‘the Man of Many Masks,’” (with Tom Switzer), January 5, 2013.
“Norquist’s No-Tax Call a Wedge for Republicans,” The Australian, December 10, 2012.
“Republicans’ Media Relations Are a Cautionary Tale for Liberals,” Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 4, 2012.
“GOP Rides Winds of Good Fortune,” The Australian, September 1, 2012.
“How a centre-right politician wins,” cover story, Spectator Australia, August 25, 2012, vii.
“Richard Nixon’s model campaign,” New York Times, May 10, 2012.
“Gingrich and Santorum: The boys who cried Fox,” New York Times, April 19, 2012.
“Like Father, Like Son?” Spectator Australia, March 10, 2012
“Search for Renewal after Tucson Tragedy: What Palin Missed, What Obama Got Right,” Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 2011
“Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck Are Not Guilty of Sedition,” Christian Science Monitor, April 23, 2010
“Shock Poll: Why Do So Many Republicans Think Obama Is a Socialist, a Muslim, or Even the Anti-Christ?” Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 2010
“Four Things Democrats Must Do to Avoid Defeat in 2010,” Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 2009
“The Problem with Conservative Echo Chambers,” Christian Science Monitor, July 29, 2009
“Why the Left Misjudges GOP Sex Scandals,” with Neil J. Young, Christian Science Monitor, July 8, 2009
“Long Live the Democrats? Not So Fast,” Christian Science Monitor, June 23, 2009
“Obama Shouldn’t Lump the Right-Wing Together,” Christian Science Monitor, June 12, 2009
“Liberals, Too, Should Reject the Fairness Doctrine,” Christian Science Monitor 25 November 25, 2008, 9