Articles by Year
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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).
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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.)