Published Articles by Jeff Greenfield

Jeff Greenfield

In addition to being one of America's most respected political analysts, Jeff Greenfield is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in many distinguished publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Newsweek - The Daily Beast, National Lampoon, and Harper's Magazine. Over the past 30 years, Greenfield has covered a wide array of topics, from history and politics to violence and the media. 

"Wonder How Trump Will Handle Defeat? Don't Bother With History."

POLITICO

November 5, 2018


"Mega Millions Is a Scam That's Totally Worth It"

POLITICO

October 22, 2018


​"Two Tight Races in New Jersey Could Help Democrats Flip the House"

PBS NewsHour

​October 14, 2018


"Ruth Bader Ginsberg Levels With Us On Why She's Not Retiring"

The Daily Beast

September 25, 2018


​"Kavanaugh Just Played 'Checkers' On Fox"

POLITICO

​September 24, 2018


​"Family Ties Are No Match for Trump's Divisive Politics"

Washington Post

September 24, 2018


"Why Woodward's 'Fear' Flopped in Washington"

​POLITICO

September 17, 2018


​"Bernie Sanders Just Tried to Kill the Superdelegate. Will Democrats Regret It?"

POLITICO

​August 30, 2018


"What Brett Kavanaugh Really Thinks"

POLITICO

​August 6, 2018


​"Is socialism having its moment in U.S. elections?"

​PBS NewsHour

​July 29, 2018


​"Why Liberals Should Stop Whining About the Senate"

POLITICO

​July 24, 2018


"The Justice Who Built the Trump Court"

POLITICO

​July 9, 2018


"Trump Is Nothing Without the Senate"

POLITICO

June 17, 2018


"How RFK Could Have Become President"

The Daily Beast

​June 4, 2018


"Dick Goodwin, the Kennedy-LBJ Speechwriter Who Changed the '60s—and the Country"

The Daily Beast

​May 26, 2018


"Thinking the Unthinkable: What If Trump Succeeds?"

POLITICO

​May 2, 2018


​"The Left's Year of Magical Thinking"

POLITICO

​April 5, 2018


​"The Hollywood Hit Movie That Urged FDR to Become a Fascist"

POLITICO

​March 25, 2018


"When Bobby Decided to Run"

POLITICO

​March 17, 2018


​"Pollock Theater Screens 'Gabriel Over the White House'"

Santa Barbara Independent

​February 22, 2018


"When Richard Nixon Used Billy Graham"

POLITICO

​February 21, 2018


​"Midterm Limits: Why Democrats Shouldn't Get Too Confident About November"

POLITICO

​February 15, 2018


"Not All State of the Union Addresses Are Terrible"

POLITICO

January 29, 2018


​"The Thin Blue Wave"

POLITICO

January 20, 2017


"Oprah Could Be Great for the Democrats. In 2018."

POLITICO

​January 10, 2018


​"John B. Anderson: The Great Independent Hope"

POLITICO

December 28, 2017


"Republican Control of the Senate Hangs by a Thread"

POLITICO

​December 21, 2017


"Why the Russia Scandal Is Nothing Like Watergate"

POLITICO

​December 13, 2017


"Has Trump Made Approval Polls Meaningless?"

POLITICO

​November 29, 2017


​"How Roy Moore's Misdeeds Are Forcing an Awakening on the Left"

POLITICO

​November 14, 2017


​"Trump's GOP Firewall"

POLITICO

November 1, 2017


"The Deafening Silence of the Republican Lambs"

POLITICO

​October 25, 2017


​"Does it Matter If the President Is Smart?"

POLITICO

​October 11, 2017


​"The Democrats' Gerrymandering Obsession"

POLITICO

​October 6, 2017


"The Strange Authenticity of Hillary Clinton"

POLITICO

​September 20, 2017


​"Mad About DACA? Win Some Elections."

POLITICO

​September 5, 2017


"Don't Judge Trump on How He Handles Harvey"

POLITICO

​August 31, 2017


"What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted Trump Fans?"

POLITICO

​August 22, 2017


​"When Aides Worry Their President Is Unhinged"

POLITICO

​August 15, 2017


"The Ugly History of ​​Stephen Miller's 'Cosmopolitan' Epithet"

POLITICO

​August 3, 2017


"The Tragedy of John McCain"

POLITICO

July 24, 2017


"Why Health Care Drives Presidents Insane"

POLITICO

​July 18, 2017


"Russia developments have little effect on Trump's base"

PBS NewsHour

July 16, 2017


"How to Make the MLB All-Star Game Great Again"

The Daily Beast

​July 10, 2017


"Is All the Russia Talk Helping Putin?"

POLITICO

​July 3, 2017


"Untangling politics of health care, Russia Interference"

PBS NewsHour

​June 25, 2017


"What Game Six of the '86 World Series Can Teach Us About Russiagate"

The Daily Beast

June 18, 2017


"The GOP That Failed"

POLITICO

​June 10, 2017


"Hey Corporate America, Please Sponsor This Column!"

The Daily Beast

June 4, 2017


"JFK at 100"

POLITICO

​May 29, 2017


"Looking at JFK's legacy in the shadow of his death"

PBS NewsHour

May 28, 2017


"The 'Grownups' Won't Save Us From Trump"

POLITICO

​May 22, 2017


"The Secret of Roger Ailes' Billion-Dollar Bubble"

POLITICO

​May 18, 2017


"New FBI director scrutiny will be 'very intense'"

PBS NewsHour

​May 13, 2017


"Is This Trump's Saturday Night Massacre? Don't Count On It."

POLITICO

​May 9, 2017


"What if America Voted Like France?"

POLITICO

​April 22, 2017


"Why the First 100 Days Concept Is Bogus"

POLITICO

April 12, 2017


"A Father Keeps His Spring Training Promise"

The Daily Beast

April 1, 2017


"Trump's No-Win Health Care Debacle"

POLITICO

March 22, 2017


"Gorsuch confirmation hearings set to begin"

PBS NewsHour

March 19, 2017


"What the Senate Should Ask Judge Gorsuch"

POLITICO

​March 19, 2017

 

 

"Washington reacts to Trump's claims of secret surveillance"

PBS NewsHour

March 5, 2017


"Why Sessions Recused Himself"

POLITICO

March 2, 2017

 

 

"Does Trump's Speech to Congress Matter?"

POLITICO

February 28, 2017

 

 

"The Laws of Gravity Catch Up to Trump"

POLITICO

​February 14, 2017

 

 

"What Happens When White House Aides Get Too Famous?"

POLITICO

February 10, 2017

 

 

"Who Will Ever Tell Trump No? And if Someone Does, Will He Listen?"

The Daily Beast

February 6, 2017

 

 

"A look at the first two weeks of Trump's presidency"

PBS NewsHour

February 5, 2017


"The 4 Rules That Will Explain Neil Gorsuch's Confirmation Fight"

POLITICO

January 31, 2016

 

 

"Takeaways from Inauguration Day"

PBS NewsHour

January 21, 2017

 

 

"The Pivot That Wasn't"

POLITICO

​January 20, 2017

 

 

"Do Press Conferences Still Matter?"

POLITICO

January 11, 2017

 

 

"Remembering Dale Bumpers"

POLITICO

December 31, 2016

 

 

"JFK's Dangerous Playbook for Trump"

POLITICO

December 23, 2016

 

 

"The Faithless-Elector Fantasy Is Fun, but It's Just a Fantasy"

The Daily Beast

December 12, 2016

 

 

"How similar are Trump and Reagan?"

PBS NewsHour

December 10, 2016

 

 

"John Glen, Hero and Political Cautionary Tale"

POLITICO

December 8, 2016

 

 

"How Trump, With No Mandate, Could Change Washington More Than Reagan Did"

POLITICO

​November 25, 2016

 

 

"Trump begins building team for transition"

PBS NewsHour

November 13, 2016

 

 

"Voters Gone Wild: the Story of Election 2016"

POLITICO

November 9, 2016

 

 

"President-Elect Trump's Stunning Victory"

PBS NewsHour

November 9, 2016

 

 

"How The Election Could Get Even Crazier on November 9"

POLITICO

November 1, 2016

 

 

"Can't Wait for It to Be Over? Don't Kid Yourself"

The Daily Beast

October 25, 2016

 

 

"Tom Hayden, the Complicated Radical"

POLITICO

October 24, 2016

 

 

"Trump Looked Presidential - for About 30 Minutes"

POLITICO

October 19, 2016

 

 

"Comeback or Train Wreck? Why the Town Hall Format Is So Perilous for Trump"

POLITICO

October 8, 2016

 

 

"Where Donald Trump's Keystone Dream May Die"

POLITICO

October 6, 2016

 

 

"A Taxing Lesson for Trump From 40 Years Ago"

POLITICO

October 3, 2016

 

 

​"This was the Trump Hillary Wanted America to See - But Did It Work?"

POLITICO

September 27, 2016

 

 

"Is Hillary in a No-Win Situation?"

POLITICO

September 26, 2016

 

 

"Debate Analysis"

Charlie Rose

September 26, 2016

 

 

"What to expect from the first presidential debate"

PBS NewsHour

September 25, 2016

 

 

"North Carolina and Maryland challenge gerrymandering"

PBS NewsHour

September 24, 2016

 

 

"The Myth of a Democratic Electoral Lock"

The Daily Beast

September 22, 2016

 

 

​​​"How Hillary's Very Bad September Could Be Very Good for Her in November"

POLITICO

​September 20, 2016

 

 

"Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing"

POLITICO Magazine

September/October 2016

 

 

"Looking beyond the polls in this year's election"

PBS NewsHour

September 11, 2016

 

 

"Why the GOP Will Never Accept President Hillary Clinton"

POLITICO

August 18, 2016

 

 

"Doubts Start Creeping In for Democrats"

POLITICO

August 1, 2016

 

 

"How effective were the DNC and RNC?"

PBS NewsHour

July 30, 2016

 

 

"Hillary's Acceptance Speech Was True To Her - And That's the Bad News"

POLITICO

July 29, 2016

 

 

​"Bill Clinton Tries to Rebrand Hillary"

POLITICO

July 27, 2016

 

 

"Has Bernie Bridged the Democratic Divide?"

POLITICO

July 26, 2016

 

 

"Jeff Greenfield - The DNC, Day Three"

Charlie Rose

July 26, 2016

 

 

"The DNC, Day Two"

Charlie Rose

July 26, 2016

 

 

"How Democrats have changed since the Bill Clinton years"

PBS NewsHour

July 24, 2016

 

 

"How will leadership changes affect the DNC?"

PBS NewsHour

July 24, 2016

 

 

"Tim Kaine joins Clinton on the Democratic ticket"

PBS NewsHour

July 23, 2016

 

 

​"Is Tim Kaine Boring? The Dems Should Hope So."

POLITICO

July 22, 2016

 

 

"Donald Trump's Caesar Moment"

POLITICO

​July 22, 2016

 

 

"Why Trump Is Winning Over Ohio's Blue-Collar Dems"

POLITICO

July 20, 2016

 

 

"Time for Donald Trump To Be Presidential, Whatever That Means"

The Daily Beast

July 19, 2016

 

 

​"The Craziest Convention Moments You've Never Heard Of"

POLITICO

JULY 3, 2016

 

 

"Is This Why Hillary Clinton Is Trusted By So Few Americans?"

The Daily Beast

July 1, 2016

 

 

"Is Lewandowski's Firing the Start of Trump's Rebranding?"

POLITICO

June 20, 2016

 

 

"GOP has nominated an 'outsider' for president before"

PBS NewsHour

June 19, 2016

 

 

"Is Trump Losing the GOP?"

POLITICO

June 14, 2016

 

 

"Donald Trump Turns 70 Today. Hillary Clinton is 68. This Is America's Senior Moment."

The Daily Beast

​June 14, 2016

 

 

"Why We Need Those 'Anti-Democratic' Superdelegates"

POLITICO

​May 28, 2016

 

 

"The Vice Presidency No One Should Want"

POLITICO

May 15, 2016

 

 

"How Dennis Hasert Could Elect Donald Trump President"

The Daily Beast

April 27, 2016

 

 

​​​"Sorry Gov. Kasich, 'Electability' Is Bunk"

POLITICO

April 24, 2016

 

 

"James Thurber's Game Plan for the GOP"

The Daily Beast

April 17, 2016

 

 

"Is the GOP presidential nomination process fair?"

PBS NewsHour

April 16, 2016

 

 

​"Can GOP Elites Really Turn Back the Clock in Cleveland?"

POLITICO

April 10, 2016

 

 

​"What we can learn from our history of political discontent"

PBS NewsHour

March 20, 2016

 

 

"What's Wrong with Hillary?"

POLITICO

March 14, 2016

 

 

"A Brokered Convention Meant to Block Donald Trump Could Result in the Opposite"

The Daily Beast

March 9, 2016

 

 

"Can Anyone Beat Trump in the Primary? History Says No"

The Daily Beast

February 21, 2016

 

 

"The rocky road to the GOP nomination is paved with complex delegate math"

PBS NewsHour

February 6, 2016

 

 

"Has the U.S. motto become 'In Nothing We Trust'?"

​PBS NewsHour

February 5, 2016

 

 

"The Expectations Game: How the Media Pick a Political Winner"

The Daily Beast

February 1, 2016

 

 

"How Iowa Hijacked Our Democracy"

POLITICO

​January 24, 2015

 

 

"Please, Someone Sue Ted Cruz, and Hurry!"

The Daily Beast

January 17, 2016

 

 

"Why Are the Media Rooting for GOP Chaos?"

The Daily Beast

​January 10, 2016

 

 

"Will the GOP Mount a Third-Party Challenge to Trump?"

POLITICO

December 20, 2015

 

 

"Chinese Takeaway: The U.S. Could Use an Order of Order"
The New York Observer

December 13, 2015

 

 

"What We Lost When Bobby Kennedy Died"
The Daily Beast

November 20, 2015

 

 

"Why the GOP Candidates Are Hooked on Addiction Stories"
POLITICO

November 12, 2015

 

 

"How Cruz Wins Debates: An Inside Look"
POLITICO

November 11, 2015

 

 

"From Wasteland to Wonderland: TV's Altered Landscape"
The New York Times

October 3, 2015

 

 

"Inside the battle over North Carolina's voter ID laws"
PBS Newshour

October 3, 2015

 

 

"Biden's Winning Argument Against Hillary"
The Daily Beast

September 29, 2015

 

 

"How the GOP Loses the Abortion Debate"
The Daily Beast

August 21, 2015

 

 

"Democratic Blues"
POLITICO

August 20, 2015

 

 

"Who Will Win the Media's Sweet Kiss of Death in 2016?"
The Daily Beast

August 5, 2015

 

 

"What If Trump Wins?"
POLITICO

August 4, 2015

 

 

"Why GOP-Appointed Justices Jilt Conservatives"
The New York Observer

July 27, 2015

 

 

"Donald Trump's Birther Strategy"
POLITICO

July 22, 2015

 

 

"Jim Webb's Long War With His Own Party"
The Daily Beast

July 15, 2015

 

 

"Primary Amnesia"
POLITICO

July 13, 2015

 

 

"2016 Needs a Third Party"
The Daily Beast

June 3, 2015

 

 

"Jeb Bush's Wealth of Money Problems"
The New York Observer

May 28, 2015

 

 

"The Risks of Hillary's Democratic Rivals Challenging Her on Character" 
The Daily Beast
May 16, 2015

 

 

"Could Jeb Pick Fellow Floridian Marco Rubio for VP?"
The New York Observer

April 2, 2015

 

 

"Was I a CIA Spy? 50 Years On, I Still Don't Know"
The Daily Beast

March 29, 2015

 

 

"Hire Gang Members to Enforce NYC's Traffic Laws"
The New York Observer
March 12, 2015

 

 

"How Big City Mayors Eat Crow"
The Daily Beast

March 5, 2015

 

 

"Say It Ain't Joe: Will Hilary Pick Biden?"
The Daily Beast

February 16, 2015

 

 

"What Brian Williams' Chopper Whopper Says About Modern News Media"
The Daily Beast
February 8, 2015

 

 

"Obama's Biggest Problem: Timing"
The Daily Beast

January 27, 2014

 

 

"How FDR, Reagan, and Ike Almost Lost"
​The Daily Beast
January 25, 2015

 

 

"Seize the Knicks!"

The New York Observer

​January 14, 2015

 

"The World's Toughest Political Quiz."
The Daily Beast
December 31, 2014

 

 

"Is America Ready for a Woman President?"--Revisiting a 40-Year Old Question"
Glamour Magazine

December 9, 2014

 

 

"Want President Hilary? Then Primary Her"
The Daily Beast
November 24, 2014

 

 

"Political Mythbusting: Third Term's the Charm"

The Daily Beast

August 24, 2014

 

 

"Going Back to Vietnam Is Sometimes Amusing, Often Fraught, And Always Surreal"

The Daily Beast

March 9, 2014