“Why a Biden Administration Shouldn’t Turn the Page on the Trump Era”
Vanity Fair
July 7, 2020
“Law and Order Won’t Help Trump Win Re-Election”
Washington Post
June 2, 2020
“Take Some Deep Breaths and Prepare to Wait for Election Results” with FEC Commissioner Ellen R. Weintraub
New York Times
May 18, 2020
“Trump’s Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Down”
Vanity Fair
Holiday 2019 Issue
“How America Went From Barack Obama to Donald Trump in One Head-Spinning Decade” with Julian E. Zelizer
USA Today
December 22, 2019
“What Does a Traffic Jam in Atlanta Have to Do with Segregation? Quite a Lot”
1619 Project Special Issue, The New York Times Magazine
August 18, 2019
“How the Republican Majority Emerged” with Dov Grohsgal
The Atlantic
August 6, 2019
“The Real Problem with Trump’s Rallies”
New York Times
29 July 29, 2019
“Democrats Need to Get Past Impeachment Jitters”
USA Today
May 29, 2019
“How Do You Impeach a President? Like This” with Julian E. Zelizer
Rolling Stone
February 18, 2019
“Watergate’s Lesson? If Democrats Want to Heal the Nation, Trump Must Be Held Accountable” with Julian E. Zelizer
USA Today
February 4, 2019
“Why Billionaires with Big Egos Now Dream of Being President” with Julian E. Zelizer
Washington Post
January 29, 2019
“Historians: Howard Schultz Could Re-Elect Donald Trump” with Julian E. Zelizer, CNN.com
January 28, 2019
“How Policy Decisions Spawned Today’s Hyperpolarized Media” with Julian E. Zelizer
Washington Post
January 17, 2019
“’Network’ Nation: How Our Media Became Overrun by Polarization, Outrage and Attitude” with Julian E. Zelizer
New York Daily News
January 13, 2019
“Worse Than Watergate” with Julian E. Zelizer
The Atlantic
January 8, 2019
“Non-Russia Scandals Will Grab Our Attention”
TIME
January 3, 2019
“Loaded Phrases”
Review of Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”
The Nation
December 17-24, 2018
“Yes, Mr. President, Tuesday was a Blue Wave”
Washington Post
November 8, 2018
“Billy Graham, ‘America’s Pastor’?”
Washington Post
February 22, 2018
“Crying ‘Fake News’ Is Trump at His Most Nixonian”
Huffington Post
January 19, 2018
“The Second Klan”
Review of Linda Gordon, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
The Nation
January 1-8, 2018
“A Stern Senate Speech Won’t Stop Trump. It Didn’t Stop McCarthy”
Washington Post
October 24, 2017
“Partisans Often Try to Claim July Fourth as Their Own. It Usually Backfires”
Washington Post
July 3, 2017
“Trump’s Tuesday Night Massacre Brings the Watergate Comparisons Full Circle”
Esquire
May 10, 2017
“How Dwight Eisenhower’s First 100 Days Created the Religious Right”
Esquire
April 27, 2017
“All the Presidents’ Taxes”
Esquire
April 14, 2017
“Quick-Fire”
The Baffler
January 31, 2017
“Trump Repeats Truman? Not Quite”
New York Times
November 12, 2016
“The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court: Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, and White House Church Services”
Religion & Politics
July 7, 2015
“Pitchmen for Piety: Disneyland and the Invention of Christian America”
Utne Reader
July, 2015
“Why I Wrote This Book: Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
Hamilton-Griffin
June 2, 2015
“Christian America is an invention: Big business, right-wing politics and the religious lie that still divides us”
Salon
April 19, 2015
“How Corporate America Invented Christian America”
Politico
April 16, 2015
“Freedom Under God”
Medium
April 15, 2015”
“‘One nation under God’? Not when it comes to distributing Gideon Bibles to public schools”
Salon
April 4, 2015
A Christian Nation? Since When?”
The New York Times
March 15, 2015
“The Real Loser: Truth”
The New York Times
November 5, 2012
“For God So Loved the 1 Percent …”
The New York Times
January 17, 2012