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PEN America Longlist for the 2022 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
“The Lost Story of Lady Bird,” The Atlantic, March 15, 2021.
“I Think It’s More Important What’s Inside the Head Than What’s Outside”: The Story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lady Bird Johnson, Vanity Fair, March 2, 2021.
“Audio diaries reveal Lady Bird Johnson’s unseen influence in husband’s administration,” ABC News, March 1, 2021.
From 2012 to 2015 I wrote a bimonthly column for Folha de Sao Paulo about topics ranging from American politics and elections to foreign policy, to international crises, and even to film and television. Click here for a few examples.
"Politico Playbook: 3/2/2015," Politico, March 2, 2015
“Addressing Inequality Will Be a Long Struggle in Brazil,” The New York Times, October 24, 2014
“The ‘Postponement’ Requires Hard Truths,” The New York Times, September 25, 2013
“Cuba After Communism,” with Michael Bustamante, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013
“What Hugo Chavez Built: The Legacy of Latin-American 'Chavismo',” Atlantic Monthly, January 14, 2013
“Getting Latin America Right,” The National Interest, January 2, 2013
“Brazil’s Strong Stance on Women’s Rights,” Daily Beast-Newsweek, April 24, 2012
“Andean Ascent,” Financial Times, February 10, 2012
“Mr. Obama: Meet the New Brazil,” with Matias Spektor, International Herald Tribune, March 18, 2011
“A New Global Player: Brazil’s Far Flung Agenda,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010
“Absent at the Creation,” International Herald Tribune, October 1, 2010
“An American in Brazil,” International Herald Tribune, March 3, 2010
“Guantánamo: Don’t Just Close it, Give it Back,” Washington Post Outlook, April 2009
“The Hemispheric Divide,” The National Interest, February/March 2009
“Memo to the President: A Roadmap for Cuba,” Cigar Aficionado, February 2009
