Opinion, Analysis, and Feature Writing
- “Why Gorbachev’s Death Feels Like Part of an Alternate History.” 2 September 2022. The Washington Post (Outlook).
- “Trump Turned Over His Records to the Archives. But the Crisis Isn’t Over.” 11 February 2022. The Washington Post (Outlook).
- “Richard Nixon’s Last Christmas Trick.” 24 December 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Navy.” 27 November 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “How Filibusters Moved from Piracy to Congress.” 19 September 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “There’s No Wake Up Moment on Climate in America.” 3 September 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “Olympic Medals No Longer Show Off Nations’ Cultural Power. That’s Good.” 30 July 2021. The Washington Post (Outlook).
- “You Shouldn’t Have to Pay for that IR Master’s.” 19 July 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “America’s Collapsing Meritocracy is a Recipe for Revolt.” 16 July 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “Political Science Has Its Own Lab Leaks.” 3 July 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “Chernobyl Has Become a Comforting Fable.” 26 April 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “There’s Not Much for the United States Up in Space.” 12 March 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “The Founding Fathers of International Relations Theory Loved War but Overlooked Sex.” 14 February 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “America’s Currency is as Weirdly Outdated as Its Political Structure.” 9 February 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “Republican Senators Want Trump Gone. If They Say So, They’ll Be Gone, Too.” 26 January 2021. The Washington Post (PostEverything).
- “Political Scientists Turned a Blind Eye to America’s Democratic Failures.” 18 January 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “Against Academic Book Reviews.” 8 January 2021. The Chronicle.
- “This is a Coup. Why Were Experts So Reluctant to See it Coming?” 6 January 2021. Foreign Policy.
- “The True Meaning of Christmas Movies is a Cozy American Worldview.” 24 December 2020. Foreign Policy.
- “America Needs to Prosecute Its Presidents.” 29 September 2020. Foreign Policy.
- “The Beautiful, Dumb Dream of McDonald’s Peace Theory.” 26 November 2020. Foreign Policy.
- “Busy Work: Trump’s Secret Political Weapon: Wasting His Opponents’ Time.” 14 August 2020. Washington Post.
- “Trump’s Covid-19 Response Shows He Has Given Up on Competition with China that Doesn’t Involve Guns and Bombs.” 20 July 2020. Business Insider.
- “Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle.” 28 November 2019. Foreign Policy.
- “America Is Stuck With a Broken President.” 8 October 2019. Foreign Policy.
- “The U.S. Tried to Fix Ukraine’s Government. We Exported Our Corruption Instead.” The Washington Post (PostEverything).
- “American Imperialists Have Always Dreamed of Greenland.” 16 August 2019. Foreign Policy
- “Plato and Proust can’t solve Silicon Valley’s problems.” 15 August 2019. Washington Post / Sunday Outlook (print and online)
- “America the Mediocre.” 15 August 2019. Foreign Policy
- “John Bolton is warning of a ‘Clash of Civilizations’ with China. Here are the five things you need to know.” 18 July 2019. Washington Post/The Monkey Cage
- Trump Bends Over to Kiss the Blarney State.” 2 June 2019. Foreign Policy
- “IR Theory and Game of Thrones Are Both Fantasies.” 23 May 2019. Foreign Policy
- “Universities Aren’t Ready for Trade War Casualties“. 18 May 2019. Foreign Policy
- “The Slip that Revealed the Real Trump Doctrine” 2 May 2019. Foreign Policy
- “Why were liberals so desperate to believe that Mueller would save democracy?” The Washington Post / Outlook, 28 March 2019.
- “Trump’s birthright citizenship proposal isn’t just an electoral stunt.” With Philip Rocco. Washington Post / PostEverything. 31 October 2018.
- “Conspiracy theories are for losers. QAnon is no exception.” 2 August 2018. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “How do we know if US troops in South Korea are a viable tripwire? A new survey suggests it’s not that simple.” With Steve Ward. Washington Post / The Monkey Cage. 8 June 2018.
- “Theorizing about the Trump administration has become our national pastime.” 15 May 2018. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “Seven Reasons We Use Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI).” With Sebastian Karcher. The Duck of Minerva. Online, 15 May 2018.
- “There is no master plan. Trump is the WYSIWYG president.” 2 January 2018. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “Zheng He’s Voyages and the Symbolism Behind Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative.” With Daniel Nexon. The Diplomat. 22 December 2017.
- “Sorry, an Oil Embargo Won’t Lead to North Korea’s Capitulation.” With Yu-Ming Liou. The Diplomat 9 September 2017.
- “President Trump should stop tweeting. Now.” 8 June 2017. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “Conspiracy thinking in the age of Trump.” May 2017. Formiche
- “Democracy requires trust. But Trump is making us all into conspiracy theorists.” 7 March 2017. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “Donald Trump is normalizing paranoia and conspiracy thinking in U.S. politics.” 12 January 2017. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “If you’re even asking if Russia hacked the election, Russia got what it wanted.” 28 November 2016. Washington Post / PostEverything
- “Why would Russia interfere in the U.S. election? Because it sometimes works.” 26 July 2016. Washington Post / PostEverything / Sunday Outlook
- “Here’s why Saudi Arabia is loosening its restrictions on women.” 27 June 2016. Washington Post / The Monkey Cage
Selected Television, Podcasts, and Radio Appearances
- CNN on conspiracies and politics, with Dana Bash, 6 March 2017. (Transcript)
- MSNBC on conspiracies and politics, 12 March 2017.
- KCRW “Press Play” about election meddling, December 2016.
- BNN appearances discussing Trump and foreign policy (almost always).
Selected Quotations and Interviews
- Zack Beauchamp. “Trump’s withdrawal from Paris is a major blow to the American-led global order.” 1 June 2017. Vox.com.
- Jon Hecht. “Trump Supporters Would Make President Pence’s Life Hell, According to Experts.” May 2017. Bustle.
- Jon Hecht. “Impeaching Donald Trump Won’t Fix The Country.” May 2017. Bustle.
- Ishaan Tharoor. “Trump’s Twitter feed is a gateway to authoritarianism.” 6 March 2017. Washington Post.
- Chris Cilizza. “We are all conspiracy theorists.” 12 March 2017. Washington Post.
- Alan Yuhas. “Presidents undoing their predecessor’s legacy: an American tradition.” January 2017. The Guardian.
- Max Fisher and Amanda Taub. “How Donald Trump Hacked The Politics of Foreign Policy.” 19 October 2016. The New York Times.
- Wil Drabold. “Donald Trump says ‘global special interests.’ Anti-Semites in the alt-right hear ‘Jews.’” October 2016. Mic.Com.
- Vivian Nereim. “For Saudi Women Pushing Boundaries, White Is the New Black.” 29 August 2016. Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
- Max Fisher. “Donald Trump’s Appeal to Russia Shocks Foreign Policy Experts. “28 July 2016. The New York Times.
- Gene Weingarten. “Fiddling around with history.” 29 June 2008. Washington Post.