To Pledge or Not to Pledge, Christian Science Monitor, 2005
Working Hard to Misconstrue the 2nd Amendment, History News Network, 2007
The Pocket Veto Peril, Los Angeles Times, 2008
Saving the Constitution from Lawyers, History News Network, 2008
Heller's Manufactured Gun Rights, History News Network, 2008
Is Bush Inventing Another Constitutional Power? History News Network, 2008
Lincoln, FDR, Bush: Which Doesn't Belong? History News Network, 2009
Why Gun Ruling is a Teachable Moment, CNN, 2010
A Sensible Approach to Guns, Syracuse Post Standard, 2011
The NRA's Silent Motive, Salon, 2012
House Committee Wrong on Gun Running, Syracuse Post Standard, 2012
New York's Steps in Getting a Pistol Permit Make Massacres Less Likely, Syracuse Post Standard, 2012
Aurora Won't Change Anything, Salon, 2012
Five Myths About Gun Control, The Washington Post, 2012
Who Gets Guns? The Blue Review, 2012
Government Can Improve Gun Records, The Hill, 2013
Doing Nothing On US Gun Laws Is No Longer An Option, The Independent (Britain), 2013
The President's Need for Speed, New York Daily News, 2013
A History Lesson for Foes of N.Y. Gun Law, New York Daily News, 2014
History Shows Gun Laws Were Common in U.S., Syracuse Post Standard, 2014.
An Assault Weapons Gambit Backfires, New York Daily News, 2014.
Leading By Veto, Los Angeles Times, 2015.
Stand Your Ground Makes No Sense, New York Times, 2015.
Gun Laws are as Old as Gun Ownership, ACS Blog, 2015.
Why Are Assault Weapon Sales Jumping? Because They’re Fun, Los Angeles Times, 2015.
Guns Were Much More Strictly Regulated in the1920s and 1930s than They Are Today, Time Magazine, 2015.
Think the Charleston shooting will lead to new gun control laws? It won’t. Washington Post, 2015.
“The Politics of the Fourth of July from Musical Theatre,” Huffington Post, 2015.
Flanagan's Gun Permit, and Mine, New York Daily News, 2015.
“Why the Oregon Shooting Likely Won’t Change Anything,” U.S. News and World Report, October 2, 2015.
“Obama’s Guantanamo Paradox,” with Chris Edelson, U.S. News and World Report, November 30, 2015.
“Arming Everyone is Not the Answer,” N.Y. Daily News, December 6, 2015.
“Why Guns for All Is Not a Good Idea,” Syracuse Post-Standard, December 13, 2015.
“President Obama’s Recent Vetoes Were Unconstitutional. Congress Should Sue Him.” Washington Post, December 30, 2015.
“Nutty Gun Rhetoric Meets Reality,” U.S. News and World Report, January 7, 2016.
“What the Orlando Shooting Shows About the Importance of Gun Laws,” Washington Post, June 14, 2016.
“Even in the Wild West, There Were Rules About Carrying Concealed Weapons,” Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2016.
“Here’s What it Would Take for the U.S. to Ban Assault Weapons Again,” MarketWatch, June 24, 2016.
“Political Gridlock, Past and Present,” Washington Times, in conjunction with the National Constitutional Literacy Campaign, September 12, 2016.
“Why There Will Be No Trump Impeachment Now—Even Though There Should Be,” Huffington Post, January 18, 2017.
“The NRA Wants To Suppress One of Guns’ Most Important Safety Features,” Washington Post, January 23, 2017.
“Trump’s Tax Returns and Tax Reform: Can We Get Both?” Syracuse Post Standard, April 16, 2017.
“Armed Private Militias like Charlottesville's Offend the Founding Fathers' Intent,” NY Daily News, August 16, 2017.
“Americans Used to Be Good at Gun Control. What Happened?” New York Times, October 3, 2017.
“An American Standoff,” New York Daily News, October 8, 2017.
“Laws We Used to Have on the Books Could Have Prevented the Florida School Shooting,” Washington Post, February 15, 2018.
“The NRA’s Journey from Marksmanship to Political Brinkmanship,” The Conversation, February 23, 2018.
“How to Keep the Deadliest Guns Out of Dangerous Hands,” New York Daily News, March 5, 2018.
“You Can Report a Bad Driver; Why Not an Angry Gun Owner?” Syracuse Post Standard, March 11, 2018.
“Here’s What Trump Doesn’t Know about Knives, Guns and Murder,” Washington Post, May 9, 2018.
“‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Have Failed to Stem Crime or Improve Safety,” Rockefeller Institute of Government, June 4, 2018.
“What's Behind NRA TV's Grotesque Take on 'Thomas & Friends,'” CNN.com, September 13, 2018.
“The Gun Safety Issue is Actually Helping Democrats,” New York Times, November 12, 2018.
“Impeachment: Be Careful What You Ask For,” Syracuse Post Standard, December 30, 2018.
“Why the Supreme Court Will Almost Surely Strike Down New York City’s Gun Law,” New York Daily News, January 24, 2019.
“Why ‘Vice’ Deserves an Oscar,” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2019.
“One Year Later:Parkland Shifted the Politics of Guns,” Syracuse Post Standard, February 17, 2019.
“There’s No Second Amendment Right to Large-Capacity Magazines,” New York Times, August 6, 2019.
“Can the NRA Survive its Current Crisis?” History News Network, hnn.us, August 11, 2019.
“Trump Should Seize This Pivotal Moment and Stop Waffling on Gun Control,” CNN.com, August 24, 2019.
“One Gun Policy Idea We Can Agree On: Magazine Regulation,” Second Thoughts, The Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, October 10, 2019.
“William Barr’s Upside-Down Constitution,” History News Network, December 1, 2019.
“Gun Rights Sanctuaries Threaten Law and Order,” Syracuse Post Standard, February 2, 2020.
"Why Are People Bringing Guns to Anti-quarantine Protests? To Be Intimidating," Washington Post, April 27, 2020.
"The NRA is Doomed. It Has Only Itself to Blame," Washington Post, August 8, 2020.
“Guns Don’t Belong Near Polling Places. Right Wingers Want Them There Anyway,” Washington Post, September 30, 2020.
"President Trump’s Record on Promises: Did He Keep Them?” Syracuse Post Standard, October 1, 2020.
“Originalism, Shot Full of Holes: A Primer for Amy Coney Barrett,” New York Daily News, October 14, 2020.
"Guns and the 2020 Elections," U.S. Election Analysis 2020: Media, Voters and the Campaign, November 15, 2020.
"Capitol Riot a Fitting End to Trump Presidency Built on Lies,” Syracuse Post-Standard, January 8, 2021.
“The Problem With a Self-Pardon,” History News Network, January 14, 2021.
"The Supreme Court’s intent isn’t concealed: Conservatives are hell bent on expanding gun rights," New York Daily News, April 26, 2021.
"The Coming Collision of Gun Laws and Rights,” Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, May 10, 2021.
"The NRA could be winning its long game even as it appears to be in dire straits," The Conversation, November 24, 2021.
"Texas and New York: A Tale of Two State Gun Laws," New York Daily News, January 25, 2022.
"Despite Tragedy, College Campuses Remain Safe," Virginia Daily Press/Virginian-Pilot, February 8, 2022.
“Sandy Hook-Remington gun marketing settlement shows how to fight gun companies,” NBC THINK, February 19, 2022.
"The Sandy Hook-Remington Settlement: Consequences for Gun Policy," Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, March 21, 2022.
"Study of US Government Requires Examination of Conflict," Virginia Daily Press/Virginian-Pilot, May 1, 2022.
"How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today," The Conversation, May 25, 2022.
"How the NRA went from backing gun laws to blocking them," Houston Chronicle, May 26, 2022.
"Originalism, History, and Religiosity are the Faults of Alito's Reasoning in Dobbs," History News Network, May 29, 2022.
“US tragedies from guns have often – but not always – spurred political responses,” The Conversation, June 8, 2022.
“How the Supreme Court rewrote history to justify its flawed gun decision,” NBC THINK, June 23, 2022.
"The Road Ahead for Gun Laws in New York State," New York Daily News, June 28, 2022.
"Understanding the New Gun Policy Collision," Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, July 12, 2022.
"Guns at voting sites have long sparked fears of intimidation and violence – yet few states ban their presence," The Conversation, November 2, 2022.
"What our past tells us about young people and guns," The Hill, March 28, 2023.
"Stand-Your-Ground, the Castle Doctrine, and Public Safety," Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, May 3, 2023.
"For Most of U.S. History We've Had Both Gun Rights and Gun Regulations," TIME.com, June 6, 2023.
"Is domestic abuse really protected by the Second Amendment?" The Hill, July 14, 2023.
"America's Original Gun Control," The Atlantic, August 12, 2023.
"The Unusual Thing About Hunter Biden's Indictment," CNN.com, September 15, 2023.
"Minors, Gun, History, and the Second Amendment," Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, Rockefeller Institute of Government, April 24, 2024.
"The Supreme Court's Gun Rights Decision Deepens the Cracks in Originalism," The Hill, June 24, 2024.
"Court's Immunity Ruling Undermines Founders' Intent," Virginia Daily Press/Virginian Pilot, July 17, 2024.
"The Trump Threat to America's Legal Order," ArtsForum, November 12, 2024.
"Newport News Council's Revised Gun Rule has Long Legal Precedent," Virginia Daily Press/Virginian Pilot, December 8, 2024.
"A Court Ruling on Minors and Handguns Got the History Wrong," The Hill, February 7, 2025.
"Historic Weapons Licensing Laws," Second Thoughts Blog, Duke Center for Firearms Law, June 4, 2025.
"What Would the Founders Think About 'No Kings' Rallies?" Virginia Daily Press/Virginian Pilot, June 27, 2025.
"Trump is Making It Easier Than Ever for Criminals to Get Guns," The Hill, July 3, 2025.
"One Nation, Under Guns," Vital City, September 10, 2025.
"Trump's Idea to Ban Guns for Trans People Would Backfire," The Hill, September 11, 2025.