Criticism

The Washington Post (2025), Book Review: ‘Family of Spies’ by Christine Kuehn

Slate (2022), Why the Philosophers Libertarians Love Always Come Out Worse for Wear

Los Angeles Review of Books (2022), French Cigarettes and a Lot of Coffee: On Skye C. Cleary’s ‘How to Be Authentic’

Essays and analysis

Politico Magazine (2025), Trump is Waging a War on the Library of Congress. It’s Been Done Before

TIME (2025), The 1930s Case That Sparked a Debate About Deportation

Slate (2025), Climb Not One Mountain

Ms. (2025), ‘What Do We Call You?’ The Many Names of Frances Perkins

TIME (2024), Frances Perkins Was the First Woman to Serve in a U.S. Presidential Cabinet. It’s No Coincidence She’s Having A Moment

TIME (2023), The Classic Christmas Movie That Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism in America

The Washington Post (2023), Pitting religious freedom against Sunday mail goes back to the founding

Commonplace (2022), New Seats at the Tea Party

The Washington Post (2022), Politicians have long courted Jews, even as antisemitism abounds

The Washington Post (2021), Attacking Sunday voting is part of a long tradition of controlling Black Americans

The Washington Post (2019), The woman behind Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint for the presidency

The Washington Post (2019), Women’s colleges should admit trans students. It’s wholly consistent with their mission

The Washington Post (2018), How to stop President Trump’s latest attack on immigrants

Profiles by me

Smithsonian Magazine (2026), In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public

Smithsonian Magazine (2025), The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

Quotes

The Baffler (2026), A Piece of Work

San Francisco Chronicle (2025), Universities can’t retreat as Trump attacks DEI programs

The Wall Street Journal (2025), Six Americans Who Changed the Course of Capitalism

The Forward (2025), Slattery Report proposed moving Jewish refugees to Alaska

Salon (2024), Autistic people are tired of the stigma and fetishization

Salon (2020), Buying stamps won’t stop Trump from destroying the postal system