SELECTED BYLINES
“A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee,” The Millions, December 6, 2023
“Marxism and Mistletoe: A Holiday Lift of Books for the Lefties in Your Life,” LitHub.com, December 6, 2023
“Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely,” The Nation, June 28, 2023
“Gender Oppression isn’t inherent in human nature,” Jacobin Magazine, June 23, 2023
“The Ukrainian Utopia that almost Existed,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2023
“To Smash the Patriarchy, We Need to Get Specific About What It Means,” Jacobin Magazine, June 10, 2023
“Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Help Us Deprogram Our Brains,” LitHub.com, May 17, 2023
“For Albania, Capitalism’s Promise of Freedom Soon Turned Sour,” Jacobin Magazine, November 11, 2021
“Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Project Syndicate, November 8, 2021, also in Russian, German, Arabic, Bosnian, and Spanish.
“When the women’s movement went global,” Le Monde Diplomatique English, July 1, 2021
“Les « grands-mères rouges » du mouvement international des femmes,” Le Monde Diplomatique , June 30, 2021, [also in German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Farci]
“Politicized Representations of Love and Sex: Reading the GDR’s Das Magazin,” with Angelina Eimannsberger, Groniek, No. 226, 2021.
“Freeman Dyson Refused to Let Go of His Optimism About the World,” Jacobin Magazine, December 15, 2020
“Blueprint for Feminism,” Jewish Currents, October 14, 2020
“Debatte: Mitgefühl nicht verschenken,” TAZ, May 22, 2020
“My Daughter’s Abandoned Prom Dress,” Ms. Magazine, May 16, 2020
“The Most Famous Feminist You’ve Never Heard Of,” Ms. Magazine, March 29, 2020
“How the socialist behind paid child care and parental leave was erased from women's history, “ NBC Think, March 7, 2020
“Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000” with Gus Wezerek, New York Times, March 5, 2020 [Spanish]
"Socialists have long fought for women's rights," Jacobin, February 28, 2020
“Faculty Forum: The Tyranny of the Immediate,” Academe, Winter 2020
“Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies,” with Mitchell A. Orenstein, Financial Times, December 5, 2019
“What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce,” Quartz.com, November 13, 2019
"Revolutions for Whom?" Project Syndicate, with Mitchell A. Orenstein, November 2, 2019 [Translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Russian, Macedonian, and Spanish]
“Por qué las mujeres disfrutan más del sexo bajo el socialismo” [published excerpt] Fronterad.com, October 18, 2019
“Fake It Before, During, and After You Make It,” Jacobin.com. October 8, 2019
“La guerra de orgasmos la ganó Alemania oriental,” [published excerpt] El País, October 6, 2019 [Also in Portuguese]
“How Banning Abortion Will Transform America,” with Maria Bucur, Project Syndicate, May 15, 2019
“How a New Generation of Socialists Can Win Power (While Avoiding the Mistakes of the Past)” In These Times, April 25, 2019
“How Regime Change Breeds Demagogues,” The New Republic, March 11, 2019
“Have you wished your mother a Happy International Women’s Day yet?” New York Times, March 8, 2019
“An American Tale: How Cold War Officialdom Made the World Safe for Propaganda,” The Baffler, No. 44, March 2019
“El cuento de Estados Unidos,” [Spanish] Contexto, October 23, 2019
“Gendered impacts of privatisation and austerity in eastern Europe,” The Lancet, February 9, 2019
“What the socialist Kama Sutra tells us about sex behind the Iron Curtain,” Washington Post, November 20, 2018
“Sex and money: the two things always linked in women’s lives,” inews.co.uk, November 20, 2018
“What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women?” (with Julia Mead) Catalyst, Vol 2. No. 2, 2018 (also in Spanish)
"Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist," World Policy Journal, No, 2, Summer 2018
"Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, and Democratic Decay: Reflections on the Political Commentaries of Ivan Krastev," Cultural Anthropology, April 25, 2018
"Anti-anti-communism," Aeon.co, March 22, 2018 (with S. Sehon)
Анти-антикоммунизм [Russian]
"Finland's Red Women," Jacobin, January 10, 2018
Красные женщины Финляндии [Russian]
"Exonerando a los fascistas en la Europa del Este," Nuestra Historia, No. 4, 2017.
"Partisanka, Farewell," Transitions Online, December 11, 2017
"The Youngest Partisan," Jacobin, December 1, 2017
"Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism," New York Times, Sunday Review, August 12, 2017
社会主义国家女性更“性”福 [Chinese]
"The Missing War," Anthropology and Humanism, 42(1) 2017: 36-38
Mi hija y el horror de Donald Trump, Engarce (Mexico), Año 2, No. 4 2017: 32-34
Einstein's Pacifism: A Conversation with Wolfram Wette, The Institute Letter, Fall 2015
Fantasies of Feminist History in Eastern Europe," with Adriana Zaharijević, Eurozine.com, July 31, 2015
The Left Side of History: The Legacy of Bulgaria's Elena Lagadinova, ForeignAffairs.com, April 29, 2015
Revisiting 1989: The Specter Still Haunts, Dissent Magazine, Spring 2012
Subtle Censorships: Notes on Studying Bulgarian Women's Lives Under Communism, Journal of Women's History: Beyond the Page, Fall 2012
Rescuing Tolstoy, International Herald Tribune, 2011
