On the Page
Analysis
Politico Magazine (2025), Trump is Waging a Culture War on the Library of Congress. It’s Been Done Before
TIME (2025), The 1930s Case That Sparked a Debate About Deportation
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
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
Criticism
The Washington Post (2025), Book Review: ‘Family of Spies’ by Christine Kuehn
Jewish Women’s Archive (2023), Review: “The Jews of Summer” by Sandra Fox
Jewish Women’s Archive (2022), A Better Hanukkah Movie, With Plenty of Room for Improvement
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’
Jewish Women’s Archive (2020), Review: Rachel Bloom’s ‘I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are’
Essays
Contingent (2025), The Last Frontier
Slate (2025), Climb Not One Mountain
Ms. (2025), ‘What Do We Call You?’ The Many Names of Frances Perkins
Jewish Women’s Archive (2025), Frances Perkins and the Antisemitic Conspiracy That Never Faded
Nursing Clio (2023), Why the First Woman Matters: Traversing Barriers in the Archives
Commonplace: journal of early American life (2022), New Seats at the Tea Party
Perspectives on History (2021), Hustling to Get By: Side Jobs in Graduate School
Contingent (2019), No Refuge
Profiles by me
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