Debating the American Dream in the Media
New Books Network podcast, American Studies, Hosted by Thomas Discenna, March 2026
Politics in Question podcast, "Is the American Dream Dead?" Hosted by Lee Drutman, February 2026
New Books Network podcast, Public Policy, Hosted by Stephen Pimpare, December 2025
Gender on the Ballot / Women & Politics Institute, "Is the American Dream for Women Too?" June 2026
The Hill, "The American Dream gap: Why politicians aren't fixing the economy," February 2026
Good Authority, "Is the American Dream Still Alive?" February 2026
Podcasts and Other Appearances
The Open Mind, PBS, "Are Polarized Resentments Calming?" February 2023
Science Communication, from CampusIL, "Recommendations for Science Communication with Policymakers Based on a U.S. Research Study," January 2022
Can He Do That?, from the Washington Post, "Trump and science: An erosion of our institutions, in public and behind the scenes," October 2020
The Science of Politics, from the Niskanen Center, "When Liberals and Conservatives Use Genetics to Explain Human Difference," June 2018
Popular Writing
Monkey Cage/WaPo, "Sanders and Bloomberg want to redistribute wealth. Most millionaires and billionaires don’t" (with Marko Klasnja and Gonzalo Rivero). February 2020
Monkey Cage/WaPo, "How worried are you about an impending trade war? That might depend on what your fellow party members think" (with Ben Toff), July 2018
USApp/London School of Economics, "Left-right disagreement over whether people are 'born gay' is both a cause and consequence of polarized gay rights attitudes," February 2016
U.S. News & World Report, "Science Denial is Bipartisan," April 2015
Monkey Cage/WaPo, "A scientific perspective on politics and science," February 2015
Monkey Cage/ WaPo, "Comment threads are messy, but so is democracy." December 2014
USApp/London School of Economics, "Newspaper-based bloggers and commenters are far less polarized and more civil than their independently-based counterparts," November 2014
Selected Media Mentions
The New York Times, "How We Think About Politics Changes What We Think About Politics," by Thomas B. Edsall, August 2022
Science Magazine, "Want to get a politician to listen to science? Here's some advice," February 2019
Psychology Today, "Anger Exacerbates Political Bias," by Bobby Azarian, September 2018
New York Magazine, "The ‘Spiral of Silence’ Theory Explains Why People Don’t Speak Up on Things That Matter," by Olga Mecking/Science of Us, March 2017
ProPublica, "What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism," by Eric Umansky, December 2016
The New York Times, "The Eternal Return of Unenlightened Despotism," by Thomas B. Edsall, August 2016
Vox, "The rise of American authoritarianism" by Amanda Taub, March 2016
The Atlantic, "The Republican Party's White Strategy," by Peter Beinart, July/August 2016
Newsweek, "Why Trump Won't Be Easy for the Dems to Beat," by Matthew C. MacWilliams, February 2016
Science, ScienceInsider blog, "Politics, science, and public attitudes," by Jeffrey Mervis, February 2015
Mother Jones, "New Study Says Conservatives React More Strongly to Insults Than Liberals," by Kevin Drum, October 2013
The Wilson Quarterly, "Your political views affect your beliefs about genetics," Fall 2013