“The Democrats’ Big—and Failed—Bet,” Democracy Journal, November 19, 2024. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Moderation is not just an elite project,” Niskanen Center Hypertext, September 25, 2024. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Power, Not Process,” Boston Review, September 9, 2024. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Late to the Party,” New York Review of Books, July 30, 2024. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Democrats Don’t Have a Nominee Until Delegates Say So,” New York Times, July 13, 2024.
“How Conservatives Changed the Whole Point of American Political Parties,” Time Made by History, June 10, 2024. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Renegade Faction of the Tasseled-Loafer Class,” n+1, May 21, 2024.
“Elder Statesmen,” Dissent, Spring 2024.
“The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket,” New York Times, September 18, 2023. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Did the Democrats Fuck It Up?,” n+1, May 19, 2022. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“How to Take Over a Political Party,” Interview with Mark Engler and Paul Engler, The Nation, October 11, 2021.
“Lessons for Courtiers,” Dissent, Fall 2021.
“The Revival of the Nevada Democratic Party,” Case study for SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, August 2021 (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“Can Democrats Fix the Senate?” n+1, January 18, 2021.
“What happened to that ‘blue wave’?” Washington Post Monkey Cage, November 10, 2020. (with Daniel J. Galvin and Sam Rosenfeld)
“Up-Island,” n+1, August 27, 2020.
“Local Political Parties as Networks: A Guide to Self-Assessment,” Scholars Strategy Network, May 2020. (with Lara Putnam et al.)
“Up from Polarization,” Dissent, Spring 2020.
“Old Donkeys, New Tricks,” n+1, August 1, 2019.
“The dilemmas for Democrats in 3 past visions for the party,” Vox Polyarchy, June 13, 2019. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“How SPLC’s co-founder Morris Dees and the conservative Richard Viguerie changed American politics," Washington Post Monkey Cage, April 2, 2019.
“Why Steve King’s Punishment Took So Long,” New York Times, January 15, 2019. (with Sam Rosenfeld)
“How to Revitalize America’s Local Parties,” Scholars Strategy Network, January 2019. (with Lara Putnam et al.)
“Getting Past 270,” n+1, November 1, 2018.
“Beltway Blues,” Dissent, Summer 2018.
“The Plutocratic Id,” n+1, December 5, 2017.
"In Equilibrio," The Nation, September 25-October 2, 2017.
“Irregular Order,” n+1, July 31, 2017.
“The Lists Told Us Otherwise,” n+1, December 24, 2016.
“Is the American Party System about to Crack Up?” (forum with Danielle Allen and Rick Perlstein), The Nation, May 23-30, 2016.
“Trump and the Republicans,” n+1, March 11, 2016.
“Karl Rove is a bad historian: Race, the South and the real story he doesn’t tell about William McKinley and 1896,” Salon, January 9, 2016.
“The Sanders Phenomenon,” n+1, October 13, 2015.
“Achieving Radical Change: Social Movements and the Partisan Promise,” Juncture, Fall 2015.
“Democrats and labor unions are doomed without each other – and so are we," The Hill, September 1, 2015.
“How The Christian Right Ended Up Transforming American Politics,” Talking Points Memo, August 25, 2015.
“The Alliance of U.S. Labor Unions and the Democratic Party,” Scholars Strategy Network, October 2013.
And, from way back when, an essay about Moxie. "Make Mine Moxie," Perspective, November 2001.