First They Came for My Assault Rifle (1/14/2013)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch No. 8: Visiting the Bouazizis (9/14/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch #7: The Bombed-Out Mansions of La Marsa (8/25/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch #6: Tunisia, Joan Didion, and the Origins of the Arab Spring (8/8/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 5: Ways of Seeing (8/3/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 4: Meet the Salafists, Part II (7/28/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 3: Hedi Ouled Baballah, Dissident Comedian (7/20/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 2: “The Most Important Thing is to Break the Picture.” (7/12/2011)

Dispatches from Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Dispatch 1: Meet the Salafis (7/6/2011)

This is Who We Are (12/7/2010)

List: When All Else Fails, Name Your Self-Help Book After a Raymond Carver Story (1/14/2010)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 9: North, to Alaska (10/13/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 8: A Humble Essay On My Total Lack of Fundraising Skills (9/16/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 7: A Curious Feeling of Restlessness (8/21/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 6: I Come as Close as I Ever Will to Winning the Love of Angelina Jolie (7/24/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 5: The Mustache Unveiled (7/10/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 4: In Which My Will is Finally Broken (6/26/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 3: In Which I Solve a Personal Dilemma by Waffling (6/12/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 2: I Suffer My First Mustache-Related Existential Crisis (6/6/2009)

Dispatches From an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache: Dispatch 1: I Am Catapulted Into the Unknown. (5/22/2009)

Rod Blagojevich Writes 25 Things About Himself on Facebook (2/2/2009)

Jane Eyre Runs For President (3/6/2007)

Thomas Friedman Explains the Issues of the Day (9/7/2006)

List: Ed Harrelson, Teen-Driver’s-Education Instructor (9/30/2005)

List: Reasons to Fear Canada (4/20/2005)

Certain Things Have Come to My Attention (12/23/2004)

Nightmare (9/2/2004)

McSweeney’s Brain Exploder: Celebrity Sex (8/6/2003)

List: Lessons Learned from My Study of Literature (8/5/2002)

List: Dialogue Spoken by Al Pacino During Pre-Production Character Development Exercises for Scent of a Woman (5/13/2002)

Discovering “The Lost City,” An Interview with Dr. Deborah Kelley, a Marine Geologist at the University of Washington Who Studies Undersea Volcanoes, Part Two. (4/13/2002)

Discovering “The Lost City,” An Interview With Dr. Deborah Kelley, A Marine Geologist At The University Of Washington Who Studies Undersea Volcanoes, Part One (4/12/2002)

The Name Game (10/29/2001)

The Attacks and Their Aftermath: Flowers And Flags. (9/25/2001)

Our Long National Nightmare Is Finally Over. (6/21/2001)

From The Found Notebooks Of The Members Of Homer’s Writing Group. (5/9/2001)

Three Thought Experiments (With Study Questions) (2/9/2001)

Discarded Art-Book Proposals, Reconsidered (First in a Series) (11/28/2000)

Short Fiction Starring or Mentioning David Gergen: A Grateful Nation Pays Homage to Gergen (10/2/2000)

Short Fiction Starring or Mentioning David Gergen: David Gergen was My Lover (11/10/1999)