December 21, 2025 - “Are Trump’s Actions Unprecedented? We Asked Historians,” New York Times.

October 8, 2025 - “For Trump, the ‘Enemy From Within’ Keeps Getting Bigger,” New York Times.

August 19, 2025 - “The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald Trump,” New York Times.

April 30, 2025 - “Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented,” New York Times.

February 10, 2025 - “Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power,” New York Times.

October 2, 2024 - Reuters, Walz and Vance's 'Midwestern Nice' Debate Gives US Voters a Break

September 11, 2024 - "Debate Strengthens Harris' Position," Radio Liberty (Russian).

August 12, 2024 - "Vibe Shift:" Young Texas Voters, Motivated by Kamala Harris, Lock into the Presidential Election, Texas Tribune.

July 29, 2024 - President Joe Biden Calls for Major Supreme Court Overhaul in LBJ Library Speech, Austin American-Statesman

July 21, 2024 - Historian at UT Explains Significance of Biden Dropping Out of Presidential Race, KVUE News Austin.

June 24, 2024 - How the Presidential Candidates See Top Foreign Policy Issues, Voice of America News.

May 31, 2024 - Biden Presents New Israel Ceasefire Plan, Calls on Hamas To Accept, Reuters.

April 25, 2024 - How Right-Wing Politicians are Manipulating Anti-Semitism to Harm Jews and Others, Austin Statesman.

April 25, 2024 - Governor Abbott Faces Backlash For Mass Arrests at UT, The Hill.

April 24, 2024 - Police Arrest More Than 2,000 Demonstrators at UT, Texas Tribune.

December 15, 2023 - Henry Kissinger, An Old Friend of China, Sanlian LifeWeek (China)

December 1, 2023 - “Henry Kissinger’s passing reminds us of the vital need for capable diplomats,” Houston Chronicle

November 14, 2023 - “Lush, Private Northern California Estate is Site for Xi-Biden Meeting,” AP News

September 22, 2023 - “Biden to Visit Michigan to Support Auto Strike,” Reuters.

May 26, 2023 - “One Scholar’s Front-Row Seat to Higher-Ed Battles in Wisconsin and Texas,” Chronicle of Higher Education. PDF.

April 24, 2023 - “Texas bills banning diversity programs to protect white privilege will damage the state's economy,” Houston Chronicle. PDF.

March 15, 2023 - “Bill Would Make UT-Austin Center Into a College,” Texas Tribune.

March 14, 2023 - “Election-Deniers Pour Millions into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race,” Guardian.

February 7, 2023 - “Biden Strikes Optimistic, Determined Tone in State of the Union,” Voice of America News.

January 30, 2033 - “Professor, Son Talk Democracy with Weekly Podcast,” Daily Texan.

January 13, 2023 - “The Presidential Mislaying of Documents is Contagious,” Economist.

September 1, 2022 - “Biden Calls Out Threat to Democracy, Urges Americans to 'Stand Up for It,’” Voice of America

July 13, 2022 - “Celebrating 200 Episodes of This Is Democracy: A Conversation about Conversations with Jeremi and Zachary Suri,” Not Even Past

May 25, 2022 - “World Voices Horror at Latest Mass Shooting in the United States,” Agence France-Presse English Translation

March 26, 2022 - “‘This Man Cannot Remain in Power,’ Biden Says of Putin,” Voice of America

February 28, 2022 - “Ukraine and the Economy will Dominate Biden’s State of the Union Address, Voice of America

February 28, 2022 - “What to Expect from Biden’s State of the Union Address,” Courthouse News Service

January 19, 2022 - “Biden Sums Up His First Year,” Voice of America News

January 15, 2022 - “Joe Biden was set up to fail,” Economist PDF version

January 6, 2022 - “Remembering January 6,” Inside Higher Ed

November 6, 2021 - “The Calamity Facing Joe Biden and the Democrats,” Economist

November 8, 2021 - “Will Texas Repeat a McCarthy-like Investigation in Schools?” Dallas Morning News

October 29, 2021 - Unreasonable Expectations of Leaders. Economist Podcast. Starts at 22:00.

October 27, 2021 - Here’s Where I Look For Inspiration. Fast Company

September 12, 2021 - “Post-9/11 Presidential Power,” Newsday

September 11, 2021 - “America Marks 20 Years Since September 11 Attacks as Biden Searches for Closure,” Voice of America

August 17, 2021 - “We Lied to Ourselves” UT Experts Assess Chaos in Afghanistan Austin Statesman

July 23, 2021 - Cruz Blocking Biden Nominees Over Russian Pipeline Deal, Spectrum News

January 13, 2021 - Are Colleges Partly to Blame for the Riot at the Capitol, EdSurge

January 7, 2021 - Far Worse Than Nixon, Inside Higher Ed

January 6, 2021 - Political Analysts React to Mobs at U.S. Capitol, KVUE News

January 5, 2021 - What to Expect When Congress Meets to Count Electoral Votes, Dallas Morning News

December 2, 2020 - Alter’s Husband Calls Challenger Virden “Racist,” Austin Bulldog

November 13, 2020 - Just How Far Will Trump’s Pentagon Purge Go? Houston Chronicle

October 22, 2020 - How do we turn Election 2020 into a teachable moment? Chronicle of Higher Education

2020 - My review of the lawlessness and chaos in the Trump White House on MSNBC “Deadline White House” with Nicolle Wallace. (Broken link).

April 17, 2020 “Biden Transformed the Vice Presidency. Who Can He Pick to Follow His Lead?” Washington Post

May 2020 - “The President and the Plague,” Rolling Stone Magazine

March 13, 2020 - “How Will the Coronavirus Shape Trump’s Legacy?” Deseret News

March 4, 2020 - “Coronavirus Tests Trump’s Credibility Gap,” CNN.com

January 6, 2020 - Historians Contributing to Public Debates about Contemporary Policy Inside Higher Education

October 4, 2019 - Rachel Maddow on the Historical Uniqueness of Trump’s Crimes Rachel Maddow Show

June 16, 2019 - Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy. History News Network

2019, Spring - “Telling History,” Life and Letters Magazine

January 9, 2019 - “Religious Discrimination by Republicans in Texas,” Texas Tribune

December 5, 2018 - “A Magisterial Presidency Meets One Diminished By Division,” Washington Post

December 5, 2018 - “Bush Praised for Respecting Federal Employees, Supporting Equitable Pay” Washington Post

December 1, 2018 - “President George H.W. Bush’s Life and Legacy,” NPR

November 2018 - Special report on the Presidency. Congressional Quarterly Researcher

October 24, 2018 - “When Rulers’ Sons Continue A Violent or Corrupt Legacy,” Washington Post (Broken link)., ABC News (Broken link)., Associated Press

September 28, 2018 - Review of The Impossible Presidency. H-DIPLO Reviews

September 6, 2018 - “Trump is Using Pardons Differently Than His Predecessors,” Capital News Service

July - August 2018 - “Mission Impossible? The Past and Future of Western Democracy” Berkshire Jewish Voice

June 4, 2018 - “Robert Kennedy: What If US Presidential Hopeful Had Not Been Killed?” BBC News

May 7, 2018 - “The Damage of Trump’s Low-Bar Presidency,” Daily Beast

April 1, 2018 - “Trump Appointments Signal More Hawkish Foreign Policy,” Newsday

December 2017 - “Jeremi Suri’s banner year in 2017, ” University of Texas Department of History Newsletter (Broken link).

December 25, 2017 - “Lessons from 1968 for 2018,” Time Magazine

November 30, 2017 - “The Case for Normalizing Impeachment,” Vox

October 11, 2017 - “UT Professor’s New Book Examines the Burdens of the U.S. Presidency,” Daily Texan (Broken link).

October 2, 2017 - “The Madman Theory of North Korea,” New Yorker

September 29, 2017 - “Has the Presidency Become an ‘Impossible’ Job?” Capital Times

August 10, 2017 - “Remaking the Presidency,” U.S. News and World Report

March 18, 2017 - “Secretary of State Tillerson Says Military Options Against North Korean ‘On the Table,’” NBC News.com

December 2, 2016 - “The 1947 Law that could Block Trump’s Secretary of Defense Nominee,” Time Magazine

November 27, 2016 - “The Weight of the World on Trump’s Shoulders,” Deutsche Welle

November 8, 2016 - “There’s Another Reason Clinton’s Win Would Be Historic: Not Just Her Being a Woman” Washington Post

June 18, 2016 - “One Day University Comes to Richmond with Engaged Audience Hearing about FDR,” Richmond Times - Dispatch

May 27, 2016 - “Does the Age of Our Presidential Candidates Matter?” Houston Chronicle

May 2016 - Review of Foreign Policy Breakthroughs book. H-Net Reviews 

January 27, 2016 - “New Online, Interactive History Class Debuts,” Daily Texan (Broken link).

December 11, 2015 - “The Challenge of Restoring the ‘Public’ to ‘Public Higher Education,’” Chronicle of Higher Education

June 17, 2015 - “Pope’s Climate Message Challenges Texas Politicians,” Houston Chronicle

January 22, 2015 - “Europe’s Far-Right Political Parties Could Benefit from Paris Shooting,” International Business Times

December 25, 2014 - “2014 Protests: From Ferguson to Hong Kong,” USA Today

November 4, 2014 - “How the Islamic State Evolved in an American Prison.” Washington Post

May 28, 2014 - “Obama Emphasizes Importance of Alliances in Foreign Policy Address,” National Public Radio

2014, Spring - “Making the Grade: Reforming U.S. Education,” Life and Letters Magazine

January 8, 2014 - “Racism, Sexism & the 50-Year Campaign to Undermine the War on Poverty,” ThinkProgress (Broken link).

April 15, 2013 - “Time for a Preemptive Strike Against North Korea? Some Say Yes.” Christian Science Monitor

April 15, 2013 - “UT Professor Says U.S. Should Destroy North Korean Missiles,” Austin Statesman (Broken link).

March 1, 2013 - “Tobin Project Coordinates Transformative Research by Scholars and Policy-Makers.” Chronicle of Higher Education

January 22, 2013 - “Obama Overseas: Speak Loudly and Carry a Smaller Stick.” National Public Radio

2012, Fall - “Whatever Happened to the American Dream?” Life and Letters Magazine

August 23, 2012 - “Obama-Romney Debate Can’t Avoid ‘Nation-Building.’” Christian Science Monitor

August 18, 2012 - “Could Running Mate Paul Ryan Run the Country.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

March 8, 2012 - “Social Media and American Foreign Policy in Africa.” National Public Radio

June 11, 2012 - “To Reunite Wisconsin, Elite Leaders Must Step Up” Capital Times

April 9, 2012 - Princeton Review rates Jeremi Suri as “1 of the 300 Best Professors” Huffington Post

November 24, 2011 - “U.S. Easing Out of Nation-Building Business,” National Public Radio

November 15, 2011 - Analysis of the “Occupy Wall Street” Movement Bloomberg TV (Broken link).

October 30, 2011 - “Rethinking that ‘Special Relationship’ between the U.S. and Britain.” New York Times Magazine

October 21, 2011 - “In Libya, U.S. Steers Clear of Nation-Building.” National Public Radio

October 10, 2011 - “Wall Street Protesters have Ink-Stained Fingers.” New York Times

September 11, 2011 - “9/11: What Else it Taught Us” Boston Globe

January 25, 2011 - “Kissinger, On Stage and Off.” The Jewish Week (Broken link).

November 5, 2010 - “Exciting New Technologies for Global Connections” University of Wisconsin-Madison Communications

2010, Fall - “The Tug of War: Innovative Research and Teaching with Military Veterans” On Wisconsin Magazine

September 26, 2010 - “President Obama’s Visit to Madison Echoes Truman’s 60 Years Ago.” Wisconsin State Journal

August 10, 2010 - “Distance Education Becoming More Popular” Capital Times

April 11, 2010 - “UW History Professor Takes Students on a Cold War Ride.” Bill Glauber. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, page B1

April 11, 2010 - “Kissinger Cable Heightens Suspicions About 1976 Operation Condor Killings.” Los Angeles Times

November 5, 2009 - “Inside Agitator.” Jennifer A. Smith, Isthmus Newspaper, Madison, Wisc. (Broken link).

April 18, 2009 - Arguing the size of the “tea party” protest. Patrik Jonsson. Christian Science Monitor

May 28, 2008 - “The Jewish key to Henry Kissinger.” Niall Ferguson. UK Times Literary Supplement (TLS) online

October 25, 2007 - Interview for the Aargauer Zeitung

October 2007 - “The Big Picture.” Heather Laroi. Smithsonian.com Magazine, and cover page (Broken links).

October 4, 2007 - “UW historian named one of Smithsonian’s top young innovators.” Brian Mattmiller. UW News

October 2007 - Foreign Affairs Capsule Reviews, Council of Foreign Relations

2007 - Suri, History News Network Top Young Historian. HNN. (Broken link).

July 25, 2007 - Interview in the Campaign for the American Reader blog.

August 27, 2007 - “Fog of History.” American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research (Broken link.)