“The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel,” for the New Republic, 06.01.2023
“The Futility of a Tell-All About Anthony Bourdain,” for the New Republic, 11.03.2022
“Should Margaret Sullivan Have Been Tougher on the Media?” for the New Republic, 10.12.2022
“The Anticlimax of the Jan. 6 Hearings,” for the New York Times, 06.08.2022
“Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy?” for the New Republic, 03.15.2022
“How the State of the Union Became One of the Weirdest Nights in American Politics,” for the New York Times, 03.01.2022
“America Runs on a Sick Workforce,” for Gawker, 02.07.2022
“The Next Coup Attempt Will Be More Dangerous,” for the New Republic, 01.04.2022
“Joan Didion Cast of the Fictions of American Politics,” for the New Republic, 12.27.2021
“Speaking Freely Has Never Been Easier,” for Gawker, 09.08.2021
“What Happens Next?” a review of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts, for Commonweal, 04.15.2021
“The Gen X Culture Warriors Who Never Grew Up,” for the New Republic, 03.08.2021
“The Unholy Alliance That Fuels American Nativism,” for the New Republic, 02.24.2021
“The Emptiness of Matthew Yglesias’ Big Idea,” for the New Republic, 09.10.2020
“Watching South Park at the End of the World,” for the New Republic, 04.03.2020
“Trump’s Loyal Apprentice in Congress,” for the New Republic, 12.13.2019
“Nate Silver Is Making This Up as He Goes,” for Truthdig, 10.30.2019
“A Jew in America a Year after Pittsburgh,” for Haaretz, 10.28.2019
“Hillary Clinton Spoils the Party,” for Truthdig, 10.25.2019
“Trump’s G7 scandal points to a better path for impeachment,” for The Outline, 10.21.2019
“Ellen DeGeneres and the American Psychopath,” for Truthdig, 10.09.2019
“The horny obsessions of the right,” for The Outline, 10.07.2019
“Next year in the diaspora,” for The Outline, 9.23.2019
“The future is four wheels, cyclists be damned,” for The Outline, 9.09.2019
“Donald Trump’s Anti-Semitism and the Media’s Own,” for Truthdig, 8.27.2019
“We work to maintain the fiction of venture capital,” for The Outline, 8.26.2019
“Who Gets to Speak Freely?” for the New Republic, 8.21.2019
“Sometimes inclusion is going to be a bit embarrassing,” for The Outline, 8.12.2019
“Racism Is Part of the New York Times’ Brand,” for Truthdig, 8.12.2019
“It was never ‘Mueller Time’,” for The Outline, 7.29.2019
“We tell ourselves conspiracy theories in order to live,” for The Outline, 7.15.2019
“There are concentration camps in America,” for The Outline, 7.01.2019
“Facebook’s Authoritarian Money Grab,” for Truthdig, 6.21.2019
“The debate over free speech deserves a better subject than Steven Crowder,” for The Outline, 6.17.2019
“Mauled by American Meritocracy,” for Truthdig, 6.12.2019
“David Brooks’s Moral Journey,” for the New Republic, 6.05.2019
“The Real Russian Menace Is Just Hypercapitalism,” for Truthdig, 6.04.2019
“The end of the world will be a non-event,” for The Outline, 6.03.2019
“One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Billionaires,” for The Outline, 5.20.2019
“Facts Don’t Care about Ben Shapiro’s Feelings,” for Truthdig, 5.13.2019
“Where Is the Left on Gun Control?” for The Outline, 5.06.2019
“What Have We Done to Deserve Meghan McCain,” for Truthdig, 4.30.2019
“Traveling Is An Elitist Nightmare,” for The Outline, 4.22.2019
“Bernie Has to Do Better than This,” for Truthdig, 4.11.2019
“MSNBC’s Wild Ride,” for the New Republic, 4.04.2019
“Nancy Pelosi Believes in Nothing,” for Truthdig, 4.2.2019
“Fascism by Another Name,” for Truthdig, 3.12.2019
“Ilhan Omar’s Critics Are Not Your Friends,” for Truthdig, 3.5.2019 (with subsequent interview on WBAI)
“Bull Speed Ahead!” for Hmm Daily, 2.27.2019
“The End of the American Republic,” for Truthdig, 2.20.2019
“America’s Signature Mode of Transportation Is High-Cost Rail,” for Hmm Daily, 2.15.2019
“Executives Also Have a Lot of Executive Time,” for Hmm Daily, 2.4.2019
“Howard Schultz Is a Presidential Candidate Only Late Capitalism Could Produce,” for Truthdig, 1.30.2019
“The Sears Racket,” for Hmm Daily, 12.7.2018
“Sheryl Sandberg Needs to Log Off,” for Truthdig, 11.04.2018
“The Egregious Lies Americans Tell Themselves,” for Truthdig, 11.15.2018
“They Are Coming for the Jews,” for Truthdig, 11.02.2018
“We Don’t Have Time for Nihilism,” for Jacobin, 10.30.2018
“As Pittsburgh Jews, We Will Mourn Our Dead by Mobilizing for Refugees,” for Haaretz, 10.29.2018
“Optimize Your Repression,” for Hmm Daily, 10.25.2018
“Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Debacle Bodes Ill for All of Us,” for Truthdig, 10.17.18
“The Shameless Opportunism of Nikki Haley,” for Truthdig, 10.10.18
“The Liberal Rehabilitation of George W. Bush Is Complete,” for Truthdig, 9.14.18
“A Homeland in America,” for The New Republic, 9.6.18
“Contemporary Liberalism’s Worst Idea Yet,” for Truthdig, 9.4.18
“Capitalism Is Beyond Saving, and America Is Living Proof,” for Truthdig, 8.31.18
“Don’t Count on History to Judge Wisely,” for the New Republic, 6.27.18
“Like a Dog,” for The New Inquiry, 4.9.18 (and in Portuguese, “Cães são Shakespearianos,” for Epoca, 5.12.18)
“Why Are Major Newspapers and Magazines Hiring So Many Right-Wing Cranks?,” for Alternet, 3.30.18
“America’s Gun Sickness Goes Way Beyond Guns,” for the New Republic, 2.23.18
“Neoconservatives Like Max Boot Are the Last People We Should Listen to About Russia,” for Alternet. 2.21.18
“The Right’s Favorite New Intellectual Has Some Truly Pitiable Ideas About Masculinity,” for Alternet, 2.13.18
“The Uncomfortable Truth About Whole Foods and Amazon’s Grocery Monopoly,” for Alternet, 1.29.18
“America’s Imperial Decline Might Be Our Last, Best Hope to Salvage Our Democracy,” for Alternet, 12.29.17
“The Usual Suspects” for The Baffler, 11.7.17
“Joan Didion Is the Best Thing About Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” for the New Republic, 10.27.17
“Now It’s a Crisis? Israel Lost This American Jew a Long Time Ago,” for Haaretz, 6.28.17
“The Democratic Party Is a Ghost,” for Jacobin. 5.15.17
“Why Are Jews Rehabilitating Jew-killing Fascists to Defend Sebastian Gorka?” for Haaretz, 4.27.17
“Beyond the Alps,” for The Paris Review, 4.10.17
“Trump’s Israel Trip Was One Big Gaslighting Charade” for Haaretz, 3.24.17
An interview with WESA FM on my novel, The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates, 3.17.17
“The Madness of King Donald” for the New Republic, 2.20.17
“Who Lost the White House” for The Concourse, 11.29.16
“I Was a Teenage Nazi Wannabe” for the New Republic, 11.23.16
An interview with WNYC’s On the Media about “When Forgetting is the Proper Response to Terror,” 6.17.16
“When Forgetting is the Proper Response to Terror” for the New Republic, 6.13.16
“Jews for Bernie: Don’t Give In to Fear” for Haaretz, 5.23.16
“Bernie Backs Jewish Values Millennials Believe In” for Haaretz, 4.14.16
“Ayn Rand Made Me a Communist” for the New Republic, 1.27.16
“Stop Immediately Linking Violence to the Perpetrator’s Beliefs” for The Intercept, 12.1.15
Review of Multiply Divide by Wendy Walters for The Rumpus, 10.13.15
“Ben Carson is Wrong about the Holocaust” for the New Republic, 10.9.15
Review of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7.12.15
Review of The Drone Eats with Me by Atu Abu Saif for The Rumpus 6.4.15
Review of The American People by Larry Kramer for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4.12.15
Review of Indigo by Clemens J. Setz for The Rumpus, 1.22.15
Review of Thrown by Kerry Howley for The Rumpus, 11.4.14
Review of Ian McEwan’s The Children Act for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9.28.14
Review of James Ellroy’s Perfidia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9.7.14
“The Last Book I Loved: Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant“ at The Rumpus, 7.12.14
Review of Thomas Sweterlitsch’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7.6.14