“Three Myths About Religion and Politics.” Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law & Religion (in 3 parts). 10/2, 10/3, 10/4/19.

“Religion and Politics in the United States.” Interview with NRK (Norwegian Public Radio). September 26, 2019. In Norwegian and English.

“The Religion Trap.” Review of Tamir Moustafa, Constituting Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The Immanent Frame. 8/1/19.

“Dangerous Logic on the Border: Religion and the Travel Ban.” Religion & Politics. July 2, 2019.

“The Conflation of Antisemitism and Israel Criticism Isn’t Unique, But it is a Problem.” Rewire. 3/19/19.

“The Border President.” Boston Review. 7/28/18.

Introduction to “Controversy over French Proposal to Edit the Quran: A Transatlantic Perspective” (with Nadia Marzouki). The Immanent Frame. 6/25/18

“Does Religious Freedom Favor Some Religions Over Others?” U.S. Catholic. 1/31/18.

“Religious Rights Advocacy Won’t Save the Rohingya--But What Will?” OpenGlobalRights. 11/7/17.

Interview: “The Dialectic of Secularism and Religionism: The Presence of Religion in the Public Sphere and its Implications for Secularism.” The Age of Reflection (Iran), vol. 3, issue 15 (Nov. 2017). PDF

“Many Parties Complicit in Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing.” Interview, Real News Network. 10/16/17.

“The Idea of the Muslim World and the Global Politics of Religion.” The Immanent Frame. 10/12/17.

“Rohingya Crisis: Focus on ‘Intolerant Religion’ Disregards Complex Moral and Policy Challenges.” Economic and Political Weekly. 9/23/17.

“Beyond Religious Freedom: The Rohingya and the Politics of Religious Rights in Myanmar.” The Religion Factor. 8/24/17.

“The America-Game.” The Immanent Frame. 2/22/17.

“Trump’s Immigration Order Means Bureaucrats Have to Decide Who’s a ‘Real’ Christian.” Monkey Cage (Washington Post). 2/8/17.

“The Myth of the Muslim Country.” Boston Review. 1/31/17.

“Religion and Politics Beyond Religious Freedom.” The Immanent Frame. 8/3/16.

“In Syria, Keeping the Faith.” Review of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami. Boston Review. 5/23/16.

“Countering the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Program.” Religion Dispatches. 4/27/ 16.

“Will Hillary Clinton Lead Us Into Another War in the Middle East?” Huffington Post, 3/4/16.

“Don’t Subject Refugees to a Religious Test.” Al Jazeera America, 11/17/15.

“How IR got religion, and got it wrong.” The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, 7/9/15.

“Transcending the Nationalism of Armenian Genocide.” Al Jazeera America 4/24/15.

“Il religioso: un fattore, ma no l’unico fattore.” Interview, Oasis Foundation, Milan 4/3/15.

“International ‘religious freedom’ agenda will only embolden ISIS.” Religion Dispatches, 11/10/14. Reprinted on the PluRel blog.

“Response to Daniel Philpott: The politics of religious freedom.” Religion Dispatches, 10/12/14.

“The specific order of difficulty of religion.” The Immanent Frame, 5/30/14.

“The bogus gospel of free trade and free religion.” Al Jazeera America, 5/20/14.

“Promoting religious freedom does more harm than good.” The Conversation, 3/28/14.

“Religious difference and religious freedom.” PluRel blog series on “The (Im)possibility of Religious Freedom?” 11/24/13.

“Religious freedom: Universal right or political pawn?” Interview, Religion News Service, 10/10/13.

“God and Government: Religion and State in 14 Countries.” Interfaith Voices radio series (content consultant).

“Losing faith in faith-based outreach.” Al Jazeera America, 9/24/13.

“Engaging Religion at the Department of State” (editor and contributor), The Immanent Frame, 7/30/13.

“What’s Wrong with Promoting Religious Freedom?” Foreign Policy, 6/12/13.

“The Dangerous Illusion of an Alawite Regime” Boston Review, 6/11/13.

“Stop Trying to Make Syria’s War into a Sectarian Conflict”  The Atlantic, 3/15/13.

“Muslims need not apply: Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom.” Boston Review, 1/24/13.

“The hegemony of religious freedom.” The Globe and Mail, 10/17/12.

“Should Canada promote religious freedom?” Centre for International Policy Studies (University of Ottawa), 10/2/12.

“Tunisia: democracy after secularism.” Al Jazeera English, 4/11/12.

“The tragedy of religious freedom in Syria.” Chicago Tribune, 3/29/12.

“Believing in religious freedom.” The Immanent Frame. 3/1/12. 

“Time to Stand Up, Turkey.” Today’s Zaman, 4/26/11.

“Why the United States Didn’t See Egypt Coming.” Muftah.org, 2/29/11.

“Myths of Mubarak.” The Huffington Post, 2/8/11.  

“Myths of Mubarak.” The Immanent Frame. 2/2/11.

“The global securitization of religion.” The Immanent Frame. 3/23/10.

“Iran: One Revolution at a Time.” The Huffington Post, 6/29/09.

“Jewish state, Islamic state: all states are religious.” Religion Dispatches (RDBlog), 3/24/9.

“Obama would bridge religious-secular divide.” Chicago Sun-Times. 7/14/08. Also appears as “Faith, Politics, and Fruitcakes.” Religion Dispatches (RDBlog),  7/21/08. http://religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=BL&Id=364#

“The other shore.” Comments on The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West. The Immanent Frame. 12/18/07.

“The slipstream of disenchantment and the place of fullness.” (Comments A Secular Age). The Immanent Frame.

“A tribute to Charles Taylor,” Social Science Research Council, 2007.

“The twin towers and the twin tolerations: reflections on American democracy after 9/11.” Zaman (Turkish daily) 9/27/06.

“Chain reactions: U.S. and Britain got what they wanted in Iran in 1953, but where did it lead? Chicago Tribune, 3/9/03.

“The West should welcome Turkey’s non-fundamentalist Islamists.”  The Financial Times, 9/30/02.

“The perils of a secular foreign policy: the case of Turkey.”  Middle East Policy, Vol. IX, No. 4 (Dec. 2002):  84-86.