Public Writing
Note: These days I am publishing almost exclusively over on Substack. Find me there: brianrosenwald.substack.com
Published Essays:
“The GOP’s Lurch to the Right,” Smerconish.com, February 27, 2024.
“The key to understanding the modern GOP? It’s hatred of taxes.” The Washington Post, February 14, 2024.
“Republican Chaos Has Conservative Media Fuming. It’s Their Fault It Happened.” Politico, October 12, 2023.
“Love our history or hate it — just aim to understand it,” coauthored with Carly Goodman and Kathryn Brownell, The Washington Post, July 28, 2023.
“November Red Wave: The Problem with Midterm Predictions,” Smerconish.com, September 1, 2022.
“A data-based solution for America’s bloody gun epidemic,” The New York Post, May 27, 2022.
“No, Biden’s agenda isn’t radical. Here’s why.” The Washington Post, December 23, 2021.
“Why Fox News won't cut Tucker Carlson loose — even after 'Patriot Purge,'" NBC News Think, November 7, 2021.
“Talk radio's Covid death trend a metastasization of conservative media culture,” NBC News Think, September 13, 2021.
“Five Predictions About the Future of Conservative Talk Radio,” Smerconish.com, June 28, 2021.
“How Rush Limbaugh broke the old media — and built the new one,” The Week, February 20, 2021.
“The GOP is Rush Limbaugh’s party. Trump only inherited it.” The Washington Post, February 19, 2021.
“Rush Limbaugh’s America,” Smerconish.com, February 18, 2021.
“Trump debated like a conservative talk radio host. That’s why he failed.” The Washington Post, October 2, 2020.
“The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a half century in the making,” The Washington Post, September 22, 2020.
“The feeble rise of the elderly candidate,” The Week, February 28, 2020.
“The historical argument against Bernie Sanders,” The Week, February 19th, 2020.
“The divisive case for giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom,” The Washington Post, February 6, 2020.
“Mitt Romney just showed Trump how a president should act,” The Week, February 6, 2020.
“Trump is winning the impeachment battle — but losing the war,” The Week, January 25, 2020.
“How a 'legislative terrorist' conquered the Republican Party,” The Week, December 24, 2019.
“Bill Busters,” The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 19, 2019.
“Trump sounds just like a right-wing talk-radio host” The Washington Post, December 12, 2019 (in print December 22).
“Why the Democratic primary seems primed for a dark horse,” The Week, October 25, 2019.
“Why Democrats don't need to change the rules to win,” The Week, October 8, 2019.
“Why Joe Walsh has little shot of beating President Trump,” The Washington Post, August 26, 2019.
“Talk Radio Made Today’s Republican Party,” The Atlantic, August 21, 2019.
“Trump just launched the newest phase of the GOP’s romance with right-wing media,” The Washington Post, July 13, 2019.
“America's elections are broken. Here's how to fix them,” The Week, November 16, 2018.
“Senators, please mutiny,” The Week, October 26, 2018.
“Our petulant president,” The Week, September 6, 2018.
"It's all about the bottom line," CNN.com, August 6th, 2018.
"The media malpractice destroying American politics," The Washington Post, July 25th, 2018.
"The conservative revolution: Kennedy’s retirement caps a half-century transformation of the court," The Washington Post, June 28th, 2018.
"Trump is no deal-maker," Smerconish.com, May 18. 2018.
"How Sean Hannity helped put Donald Trump in the White House — and how he's helping to keep him there," The Washington Post, April 23, 2018.
"The Days that Shook the Nation," The Washington Post, March 30, 2018 (in print April 1).
"Conservative Media's New Villain," Smerconish.com, February 26, 2018.
"Republicans aren’t hypocrites. They just have flawed principles." The Washington Post, February 12, 2018.
"After Charlottesville, Republicans must grapple with their history on race" The Washington Post, August 16, 2017.
"Welcome to Made by History," Written with Nicole Hemmer, The Washington Post, June 26, 2017.
"The Revolution Was Televised," Gatehouse Media, May 4, 2017.
"Fox's Bottom Line," US News & World Report, April 6, 2017.
"Sound and Fury," Gatehouse Media, December 2016.
"How Candidates Lose Presidential Debates," The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2016.
"Donald Trump Isn't Ronald Reagan—He's Barry Goldwater," The Daily Beast, July 5, 2016.
"The talk radio split between Trump and Cruz," CNN.com, April 25, 2016.
"Tracing the disappearance of centrists in Pa. GOP," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2016.
"It's not too late for Obama to pick a new justice," CNN.com, February 15, 2016.
"Ted Cruz and Donald Trump: Signs of conservative media's grip on GOP," Written with Michael Smerconish, CNN.com, February 3, 2016.
"John Oliver Shows Power, Limits of Entertainers," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 2015.
"Political Polarization Leads to Bad Legislation," The Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2015.
"Rush Limbaugh's Problem: How the Internet Changed Talk Radio," Time Magazine, February 18, 2015.
"The Talk Radio Effect," Politico Magazine, June 17, 2014.