• "Dealing with the Right-Wing Populist Challenge," Social Europe, April 12, 2021.

• "Democracy is (still) worth defending," Persuasion, March 31, 2021.

• "Why such an imperfect union?" Social Europe, February 15, 2021.

• "Closing the Representation Gap," Social Europe, December 21, 2020.

  • Reprinted by International Politics and Society, January 7, 2021.

• "Mind the Gap. What politicians cook up isn't necessarily what people want. This 'representation gap' is threatening American democracy," Persuasion, December 4, 2020.

• Discussion of the 2020 elections, in Dissent, Winter 2021.

• "How to Move Forward," Social Europe, October 27, 2020.

  • Reprinted by International Politics and Society, October 29, 2020.

• "Democrats Can't Reverse the Damage of the Trump Era Overnight," Foreign Policy, October 13, 2020.

• "Where did Trumpism come from?" Social Europe, August 31, 2020.

• "Why Protests Threaten Dictatorships but Make Democracies Stronger," Foreign Policy, August 16, 2020.

• "Crises only sometimes lead to change. Here's why" Foreign Policy, Summer 2020.

• "Europe: Will this Crisis be Different?" Dissent, Summer 2020.

• "Nykeln till framgång," Tiden, July 2020.

• "Protests, the Left, and the Power of Democracy," Social Europe, June 22, 2020.

  • Reprinted in International Politics and Society, June 24, 2020.

• "Democracy, Authoritarianism and Crises," Social Europe, March 30, 2020.

  • Reprinted in International Politics and Society, March 31, 2020 and Nueva Sociedad, April 2020.

• "What's at Stake in the Democratic Primaries" Social Europe, February 10, 2020.

  • Reprinted in International Politics and Society, February 12, 2020.

  • Reprinted by The Liberal (Norway), February 19, 2020.

• "Can Social Democrats Save the World (Again)?" Foreign Policy, Winter, 2020.

• "Interregnum or Transformation?" Social Europe, December 9, 2019.

  • Reprinted as "How Neoliberalism could crack," International Politics and Society, December 9, 2019.

  • Reprinted in a special issue of American Studies 66.1 (2021).

• "Racially divisive parties have more voters now, but voters aren’t becoming more racist. What explains this?," Washington Post, Monkey Cage, December 2, 2019.

• "The Downsides and Dangers of Economic Determinism," Social Europe, September 23, 2019.

  • Reprinted by International Politics and Society, September 25, 2019.

• "Warum die SPD kraftvolle wirtschaftliche Ideen braucht," Vorwaerts, July 16, 2019.

• "A defeat for the populist right isn't always a win for the social democratic left," Social Europe, July 15, 2019.

• "The Development and Decay of Democracy," VOX, June 18, 2019.

  • Reprinted by New America in Political Parties: What are they Good For?

• "Europe's Democracies are in Trouble. To Understand Why, Look to the Past" Washington Post, Monkey Cage, June 7, 2019.

• "Populists, Greens and the New Map of European Politics," Social Europe, June 3, 2019.

  • "Den nye politikse landskapet," Liberal.no, August 19, 2019.

• "Populism and the Embrace of Complexity," Social Europe, April 22, 2019.

• "The Main Threat to Democracy Comes from Within, Not from Authoritarians," Washington Post, March 26, 2019.

• "Capitalism and Democracy: What if we have it backwards?" Social Europe, March 11, 2019. (Reprinted in several places, including International Politics and Society and europa.blog).

• "5 Myths about Socialism," Washington Post, March 1, 2019.

• "The Long, Hard Road to Democracy," Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2019.

• "The left must respond to grievances over immigration," Social Europe, 9 January 2019.

• "Why are we so dissatisfied with democracy? The reasons are many," The Guardian, December 22, 2018.

• "What France's Yellow Vest protests say about Emmanuel Macron," Washington Post, Monkey Cage, December 5, 2018.

• "Politics, Pessimism and Populism," Social Europe, October 10, 2018.

  • Cross-posted with Public Seminar.

• "Five Takeaways About the Swedish Election--and the Far-Right Wave Across Europe," Monkey Cage, Washington Post, September 22, 2018.

• "Populist Gains in the Swedish Elections," Freedom House Blog, September 10, 2018.

• "A Populist Surprise in Sweden," Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2018.

• "EUROPA HAR ÄNNU INTE GJORT UPP MED L’ANCIEN RÉGIME" ("Europe has not fully dealt with the old regime") Respons 3/2018.

• "Democratic Socialists are Conquering the Left, but do they Believe in Democracy?" Washington Post, August 10, 2018.

• "Why identity politics benefits the right more than the left," The Guardian, July 14, 2018.

• "Marxism's Fatal Flaw," Dissent May 2018.

• "The Great Crack-up Then and Now," Project Syndicate, May 2018.

• "Är europeisk socialdemokrati på väg att dö? " Dagens Arena, April 2018.

• "Against the Technocrats," Dissent, Winter 2018. (Reposted in Top Reads from Arts and Letters Daily.)

• "Populists Have One Big Thing Right: Democracies are Becoming Less Open," Monkey Cage, Washington Post, January 8, 2018.

• "Populism is a Problem. Elitist Technocrats are not the Solution," Foreign Policy, December 2017.

• "Provisoriska Utopier. Socialdemokratins role i historien" Tiden, November 2017.

• "The Disastrous Decline of the European Center-Left," New York Times, October 2, 2017.

• "Germany: The End of the Mighty SPD?" Dissent (online), September 29. 2017.

• "Behind the Boring German Elections are Four Deeply Disturbing Trends," Monkey Cage, Washington Post, September 24, 2017.

• "Some Argue the West Should Limit Democracy to Save Liberalism. This is Why They are Wrong." Monkey Cage, Washington Post, July 18, 2017.

• "Discussion of Populism," Think Progress, May 5, 2017.

• "On the French Election," World Policy Journal, May 5, 2017.

• "Defeating Marine Le Pen Won't Be Enough to Save France," VOX, May 5, 2017.

• "It Wasn't Just Hate. Fascism Offered Robust Social Welfare." AEON, 27 March 2017. (Translated into Spanish "No solo fue odio. El fascismo ofreció un robusto bienestar social" (Jacobin August 19. 2019)

• "France's Big Parties Probably Won't Even Get Into the Presidential Election's Final Round. Here's Why." Monkey Cage, Washington Post, February 8, 2017.

• "Europe's Center-Left Risks Irrelevance if it Can't Respond to the Populist Challenge," EUROPP: European Politics and Policy, February 1, 2017. (Reposted on Social Europe, "Europe's Center-Left Risks Irrelevance," February 6, 2017 and The Parliament, February 13, 2017.)

• "Donald Trump Isn't a Fascist," VOX, January 3, 2016.

• "Want to Know if the Trump Administration Will Lurch into Radicalism? Don't Look at Trump." Monkey Cage, Washington Post, November 29. 2016.

• "Europe's Traditional Left is in a Death Spiral," Monkey Cage, Washington Post, October 24, 2016.

• "Populism is not Fascism. But it Could be a Harbinger," Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2016.

• interview with Jake Blumgart: "Is Fascism Back?" The American Prospect, July 7, 2016.

• "Brexit Might Undermine Europe's Democratic Order," Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, June 30, 2016.

• "European Powers forced artificial borders on more places than the Middle East," Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, May 18, 2016.

• "No Cheers for Anarchism," Dissent Fall 2015.

• “This is Why the Current Eurozone Plan for Greece is Going to Fail,” Monkey Cage, TheWashington Post, July 23, 2015.

• "Better Economic Policies Alone Will not Revive the Centre-Left," Policy Network Online, July 2014.

• Introduction to a special issue on "The European Left in Crisis," Dissent, Fall 2013.

• "Marx's Lessons for the Muslim Brothers," New York Times, August 2013.

• "The Continuing Promise of the Arab Spring," Foreign Affairs (online), July 2013.

• "The Promise of the Arab Spring. In Political Development, No Gain Without Pain," Foreign Affairs Jan./Feb. 2013, 92, 1. (Reprinted in: The Arab Spring at Five, a Foreign Affairs Reader, 2016)

• "Democracy, Banks and the Current Euro Crisis," Dissent (online), January 4 2012.

• "The Age of Uncertainty," The Utopian (online), November 9, 2011.

• "A Response to Corey Robin," Dissent, October 2011.

• "Germany, the EU, and the Financial Crisis," Crooked Timber, January 2011.

• "A New German Sonderweg?" Dissent (online), Sept. 2010.

• "A Tribute to Tony Judt," Queries, 3, 2010.

• "What Happened to the European Left?" Dissent, Summer 2010.

• "Europe's Crisis and Europe's Future," Dissent online, May 2010.

• "What is Social Democracy? Rediscovering an Ideology for our Times," Fronesis, 32-33, 2010.

• "The Early Architects of Swedish Social Democracy: Ernst Wigforss, Nils Karleby and Per Albin Hansson," Policy Network, June 2010.

• "The Sun King and Karzai," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2010. (Debate)

• "What to Read on Modernization Theory," Foreign Affairs (website), March 12, 2009.

• " Unheralded Battle: Capitalism, the Left, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism," Dissent, Winter, 2009.

• Reply to Joanne Barkan re: "Unheralded Battle ," Dissent, Summer 2009.

• " The Once and Future Ideology," Renewal, 15, 2/3, 2007.

• " Hizbollah is rearing an uncivil society," Financial Times, September 1 2006.

• " Capitalism and Poverty," World Policy Journal, Spring 2006.

• " Europe's Choice," Dissent, Winter 2006.

• "The Three Faces of Fascism," World Policy Journal, Fall 2004.

• "' We Didn't Start the Fire': Capitalism and its Critics, Then and Now," Foreign Affairs, 82, 4, July/August 2003.

• " The Left and Democracy. The Triumph of Realo Politik," Dissent, Winter 2003.

• "Rediscovering Social Democracy," Dissent, Fall 2000.

• "Bank on Democracy: Why Central Banks Need Public Oversight," (with Kathleen McNamara) Foreign Affairs, 78, 2, April/May 1999.

Book Reviews

• "Why Constitutions are the Safeguards of Freedom" (Review of Linda Colley's The Gun, The Ship and the Pen), New York Times Book Review, March 30, 2021.

• "The Everyday Decisions that Undermine Democracy" (A review of Anne Applebaum's Twilight of Democracy, Washington Post, July 24, 2020.

• "A discussion of Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die," Perspectives on Politics, 16, 4, December 2018.

• "How Liberalism Failed," Dissent, Fall 2018.

• "Identity Politics in a Liberal Democracy" (Discussion of Mark Lilla's, The Once and Future Liberal," Tocqueville 21, 4 September 2018.

• "Can it Happen Here?" (A Review of of Madeline Albright's Fascism, New York Times, May 2018.

• "How Greece's Radical Finance Minister was Rebuffed During its Financial Crisis" (Review of Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room, Washington Post, November 10, 2017).

• "A Grand Tour of the Crises in Europe" (Review of William Drozdiak, Fractured Continent, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2017).

• "Review of Kurt Weyland's Making Waves," Journal of Democracy, April 2016.

• "Global Warming: Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay," New York Times Book Review, September 14, 2014.

• "Review of Colin Crouch, "Making Capitalism Fit for Society," Dissent, Summer 2014.

• "State Building and Democratization," Comparative Democratization Newsletter, 12, 2, May 2014.

• Review of W Rand Smith, Enemy Brothers, Perspectives on Politics, March 2014.

• Paine and Burke Now. A Review of Yuval Levin's The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Brith of Right and Left. Democracy, 31, 2014.

• Review of Lucy Hughes-Hallet, Gabrielle D'Annunzio. Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War, New York Times Book Review, September 2013.

• “Symposiumon John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness, The Journal of Politics, 75, 2, April 2013.

• Review of Kevin Callahan's Demonstration Culture: European Socialism and the Second International, American Historical Review, 117, 2, April 2012.

• Review of Corey Robin's, The Reactionary Mind, New York Times, Oct. 9 2011.

• "Review of Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World," Dissent, Fall 2011.

• "Review of Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order," Journal of Democracy, October 2011.

• "Review of John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson, and Martin McIvor, eds., In Search of Social Democracy, West European Politics, 33, 4, May 2010.

• " Review of Richard Sandbrook, marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery," Perspectives on Politics, 7, 2, 2009.

• " Review of Mary Hilson, Political Change and the Rise of Labour in Comparative Perspective," Journal of Social History, Spring 2008.

• " Review of Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences," Perspectives on Politics, 5, 1, 2007.

• " Boom and Bust" A review of Barry Eichengreen's The European Economy Since 1945," New York Times, March 25 2007.

• " Review of Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made," German Politics and Society, Spring 2006.

• Review of The Nation-State in Question, T. V. Paul, G. John Ikenberry, and John A. Hall, eds ., Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004.

• Review of Gerassimos Moschonas, In the Name of Social Democracy , Perspectives on Politics, 1, 2, March 2003.

• Review of Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Practicing Democracy , German Politics and Society, Summer 2001.

• Euthanasia, Eugenics and Fascism: How Close are the Connections , German Politics and Society, 17, 3, Fall, 1999.