Is Anyone Entertaining Enough to Beat Trump, Medium, September 2019.

A Weekend at FairyCon, Medium, August 2019

The Two Gun Cultures of the United States, The Guardian, February 2019America’s Next Civil War, The Walrus, October 2018

Al Qaeda Won, Foreign Policy, September 2018.

The Infuriating Innocence of Mark Zuckerberg, The New Yorker, April 2018. 

The Distortion, The LA Review of Books, April 2018. 

Go Fund Yourself: Medical Crowdfunding and American's Lethal Popularity Contest, Mother Jones, January 2018.

Why is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social Media Distortion?, The New Yorker, October 2017.

America's Midlife Crisis: Lessons from a Prepper Summit, The Guardian, August 2017.

Celebrity Warfare: Image and Politics in the Age of Trump, LA Review of Books, May 2017. 

This American Carnage: Notes from the Inauguration, The Walrus, January 2017.

The Obama Years, LA Review of Books, November 2016.

The White Man Pathology: Inside the Fandom of Sanders and Trump, The Guardian, January 2016.

Literature of the Second Gilded Age, LA Review of Books, June 2014.

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?, The Atlantic, May 2012. 

The War Against Youth, Esquire, March 2012.