Essays and Interviews - Archive

Published essays:

2019
  1. Julián Castro's Failure to Launch (GEN, 11/20/19)
  2. Venice is Sinking; I'm going under (CNN, 11/15/19)
  3. Ilhan Omar and the Armenian Genocide (The Nation, 10/31/19)
  4. Talking to Kids about Climate (CNN, 10/29/19)
  5. Pierre Delecto Delenda Est (CNN, 10/21/19)
  6. Ilhan Omar: The Optimist in the Room (The Nation, 10/15/19)
  7. Betsy DeVos Attacks Campus Speech (CNN, 9/21/19)
  8. Regulate E-Cigs, sure ... but also guns (CNN, 9/12/19)
  9. The Last Straw (debate) (CNN, 9/5/19)
  10. Bret Stephens and GWU (CNN, 8/27/19)
  11. Partisanship and Higher Ed (CNN, 8/21/19)
  12. No New Asylums (CNN, 8/16/19)
  13. Bulletproof Backpacks Won't Save Anyone (CNN, 8/9/19)
  14. Marianne Williamson is Dangerous (Pacific Standard, 8/5/19)
  15. Professors Aren't Discriminating against Conservative Students (Pacific Standard, 7/30/19)
  16. Toxic Masculinity and the Democrats (CNN, 7/31/19)
  17. Democrats are in Array (Medium, 7/30/19)
  18. Filibuster Buster (Medium, 7/12/19)
  19. Break up DHS (CNN, 7/4/19)
  20. Me, My Son, and Rock and Roll (The Current, 7/2/19)
  21. How to Fight 8chan Medievalism (Pacific Standard, 6/27/19)
  22. Trump's Camps are Concentration Camps (Pacific Standard, 6/20/19)
  23. Rich People and College Admissions (CNN, 6/16/19)
  24. State Governments and Free Insulin (Pacific Standard, 6/5/19)
  25. Librarian vs Gambler vs Student Loans (CNN, 6/4/19)
  26. Save the Humanities? Make College Free (Pacific Standard, 5/9/19)
  27. Music and Mental Health (The Current, 5/2/19)
  28. Gaelynn Lea Interview (The Current, 4/16/19)
  29. Tennessee vs Medicaid (Pacific Standard, 4/15/19)
  30. Anti-Depressant Withdrawal (Pacific Standard, 4/15/19)
  31. Courts vs Seema Verma (Pacific Standard, 4/4/19)
  32. Rights for Writing Instructors (Pacific Standard, 3/27/19)
  33. Utah to Impose Block Grants and Kill Medicaid (Pacific Standard, 3/21/19)
  34. Trump Admin and Spying on SSDI (Medium, 3/21/19)
  35. Trump and 40 years of GOP attacks on Medicaid (Pacific Standard, 3/15/19)
  36. A Manifesto: Public Writing for Academics (Pacific Standard, 3/14/19)
  37. #AdmissionsGate and Lying about Disability (CNN, 3/12/19)
  38. 100 Years of GOP Lies about Socialism (Medium Politics, 3/12/19)
  39. M4A adds LTSS. Finally! (Pacific Standard, 3/12/19)
  40. Health Justice requires Immigration Justice (Pacific Standard, 3/1/19)
  41. Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing (Medium, 2/28/19)
  42. SCOTUS and Bobby Moore and "Lennie" (Pacific Standard, 2/28/19)
  43. "On your left" - Every Candidate is Vulnerable (Pacific Standard, 2/26/19)
  44. Can Sanders Talk Racism? (CNN, 2/25/19)
  45. Make soup, not war (Pacific Standard, 2/19/19)
  46. What is Amy Klobuchar's Vision? (CNN, 2/18/19)
  47. Hypocrisy, Anti-Jewish Hate, and Building Coalitions (CNN, 2/12/19)
  48. Amy Klobuchar Declares (Pacific Standard, 2/11/19)
  49. mediCAID? for all (Pacific Standard, 2/11/19)
  50. We're a Center-Left Nation (The Nation, 2/6/19)
  51. Making Grad School Humane (Pacific Standard, 2/5/19)
  52. Private Healthcare Wants to Kill Medicare-For-All (Pacific Standard, 1/29/19)
  53. Polar Vortex, Borscht, Climate Change (CNN, 1/31/19)
  54. Re-Inventing the Special Olympics (Pacific Standard - PRINT - 1/28/19)
  55. States Expand Medicaid (Pacific Standard, 1/23/19)
  56. Trump Attacks Medicaid. Again. (Pacific Standard, 1/22/19)
  57. Ain't No Freedom at Christian Schools (Huffington Post, 1/20/19)
  58. The Racism of Western Civilization (with Matt Gabriele, Washington Post, 1/15/19)
  59. Disability and the 2020 Primary (Pacific Standard, 1/15/19)
  60. The Wall Ain't Medieval and The Wall Won't Work (CNN, 1/11/19)
  61. Guns Kill More than Cars (Pacific Standard, 1/9/19)
  62. What Happens with BTS Adopts You (The Current, 1/4/19)

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