Links to Articles
Features
An American Tale - Smithsonian Magazine, December 2024
The Way Democracy Crumbles - The Progressive, August 2024
A Taste of the High Life in Houston - Houstonia, March 2023
How the Astros Girl is Giving Back During the Pandemic - Houstonia, June 2020
This Researcher Thinks Recess is the Key to Better Test Scores - D Magazine, July 2019
Combating Moral Injury - Texas Observer, October 2016
A Border Tale - Playboy, June 2013
When Walmart Goes Organic - Isthmus, June 2007
Organic Erosion - San Francisco Chronicle, January 2007
Pushing Pills - San Francisco Chronicle, April 2006
Big Brother Pharma - The New Republic, August 2006
The RX Files - Sacramento News and Review, April 2006
Reported Opinion
We’ve Always Known Fox News isn’t a News Network - The Progressive, March 2023
The Truly Cynical Message Behind the Right’s Defense of its Lies - The Daily Beast, May 2021
How Trump’s Judges Deflated the ‘Stop the Steal’ Balloon - The Daily Beast, March 2021
Trump Bashed Lobbyists. Now He’s Their BFF - The Daily Beast, August 2018
It’s Obama’s Economic Recovery, Stupid - The Daily Beast, March 2018
How The Right Co-opted ‘Fake News’ - The Daily Beast, February 2017
How The Right Destroyed The Truth - The Daily Beast, November 2016
The Right Warms Up to Climate Change - The Daily Beast, March 2015
Has Science Made Us Better People? - The Daily Beast, February 2015
The Supreme Court and the Spying on Doctors Industry - Huffington Post, February 2011
The Paranoid Style in (Twenty First Century) American Politics - Huffington Post, April 2010
Is the Awful Legacy of Lee Atwater Finally Dead? - Guernica Magazine, November 2008
Book and Film Criticism
Can He Please Get Your Attention? - Review of The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes, The Progressive, January 2025
Capitalizing on the Dispossessed - Review of Human Capital by Laura Robson, The Progressive, January 2024
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Tells a Sweeping, Dramatic Tale of the Osage Murders - Review of Killers of the Flower Moon, film by Martin Scorsese, The Progressive, October 2023
In ‘The Age of Insurrection’, the Politics of Menace and Intimidation Have Become Normalized - Review of David Neiwert’s The Age of Insurrection, The Progressive, Aug 2023
Shattering the ‘Myth of War’ - Review of The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges - The Progressive, September 2022
It Can Happen Here - Review of Moises Naim’s The Revenge of Power, The Progressive, February 2022
There is No Such Thing as a Humane War - Review of Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, The Progressive, September 2021
The Drift Toward Oligarchy - Review of Paul Krugman’s Arguing With Zombies, The Progressive, January 2020
Insiders and Outsiders - Review of Michael W. Hudson’s The Monster, The New Republic, March 2011
The Low Ground - Review of Michael T. Klare’s The Race for What’s Left, The New Republic, July 2012
A Spoonful of Sugar - Review of Love and Other Drugs, film by Edward Zwick, The Chicago Reader, November 2010
The Ballad of Chris McCandless, 15 Years On - Review of Into The Wild, film by Sean Penn, Guernica Magazine, September 2007
Interviews
Founder of Leaving MAGA Says Trump Exploits Peoples’ Fears - Interview with Rich Logis, The Progressive, September 2024
Gold Star Dad Talks Biden’s Folly in Trying to Prolong the American Century - Interview with Andrew Bacevich, The Daily Beast, January 2023
Fear and Confusion: A Tale of Internment - Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto, survivor of the Japanese “internment” camps, The Progressive, May 2022
It’s High Time We Got a F**k Off Economy - Interview with Zephyr Teachout, The Daily Beast, October 2020
Fair and Balanced (and Leaked) - Interview with Joe Muto, the Fox News mole, Cincinnati City Beat, August 2013
Social Business - Interview with Muhammad Yunus, Guernica Magazine, August 2011
Full Metal Racket - Interview with Michael Hastings, Guernica Magazine, May 2011
Blood Without Guts - Interview with Andrew Bacevich, Guernica Magazine, October 2010
The Last Temptation of Wendell Potter - Interview with Wendell Potter, Guernica Magazine, August 2010
Healthcare on the Moon - Interview with Stan Brock, Guernica Magazine, October 2009
Going Too Far - Interview with Michela Wrong, Guernica Magazine, June 2009
Aiding is Abetting - Interview with Dambisa Moyo, Guernica Magazine, April 2009