Other Writing

“Don’t write Democrats off as hopeless losers: Lessons of 1928-1932,” The Hill, October 15, 2025.
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“At the 1924 Paris Olympics, Tarzan Faced Off With the Ambassador of Aloha,” Smithsonian.com, July 31, 2024.
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“Pandemics Change History,” American Heritage, September 2020.
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“Johnson Impeachment Expert:  Trump Lawyer Pounds the Table in Lieu of Arguing Law or Facts,” USA Today, October 11, 2019.
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“A Lesson for Trump from President Andrew Johnson,” Washington Post, May 11, 2017.
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“How this 64-year-old lawyer broke a world record swimming the English Channel,” Washington Post Sunday Magazine, November 5, 2015.
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“The Violent, Scandalous Origins of JPMorgan Chase,” Bloomberg View, May 2, 2012.
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“Burr, Ogden, and Dayton:  The Original Jersey Boys,” Smithsonian.com, August 12, 2011.
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“What a 1989 Case Can Teach the Senate,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, December 22, 1998.
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“When They Did It,” New Millennium Writings 2004-2005.
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