Op-Eds, Articles, and Blog Posts

• “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

Television, Podcasts, and Radio

• 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).

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.