“Why “Drill, Baby, Drill” Will Still Be Republicans’ Energy Policy Despite the Rapidly Falling Cost of Renewables.” Environmental Politics Journal, February 3, 2026. https://environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/latest-blog-posts/

“What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next?” The Barbed Wire, January 19, 2026. https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/willmartin-luther-kings-work-be-censored-next/  

“Academic freedom being eroded at Texas universities, diminishing quality of education.” San Antonio Express News, December 1, 2025. https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/texas-academic-freedom-research-21212030.php

“The big winner of the second Trump administration and America’s self-sabotage is China.” San Antonio Express News, August 8, 2025. https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/u-s-sabotage-china-leads-not-america-first-20801845.php

“It’s not up to the Texas governor to decide what can be taught in colleges.” San Antonio Express News, April 12, 2025. https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/sb37-college-curriculum-20269353.php

“Texas is Taking Out Shared Governance & Academic Freedom in One Shot.” AAUP-Texas Blog, April 1, 2025. https://aaup-texas.org/blog/f/texas-taking-out-shared-governance-academic-freedom-in-one-shot

“Rather than check President Trump, Congress has become a rubber stamp.” San Antonio Express News, February 27, 2025. https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/congress-checks-balances-20189642.php

“Let’s live up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” San Antonio Express News, December 13, 2023. 

“Immigrant children’s best interests are not being considered by legal system.” Dallas Morning News, November 8^th, 2023, with Claire Nolasco Braaten.

“What would a new Cold War between China and the US mean for human rights?” Open Global Rights, April 27, 2023

“Texas GOP’s Assault on Higher Education is Straight Out of the Authoritarian Playbook” Texas Signal, April 18, 2023

“Abbot’s Border Wall Meets the Endangered Milkweed.” Deceleration, April 17, 2023 with Jennifer G. Correa and Joseph M. Simpson.

“A Better Border Plan Involves Fixing the Asylum Process.” San Antonio Report, February 27, 2023.

“Why Environmental Defenders Are Under Threat.” Political Violence At A Glance, August 5, 2022.

“What Dan Patrick fears about tenure.” San Antonio Express News, February 25, 2022. with Claire Nolasco Braaten

“What Influences Immigration Judges.” Academic Minute, October 25, 2021. with Claire Nolasco Braaten

“US immigration judges considering asylum for unaccompanied minors are ‘significantly influenced’ by politics.” The Conversation July 13, 2021. with Claire Nolasco Braaten

Review of “Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power.” E-International Relations, February 21, 2021.

“U.S. Senate should expel Ted Cruz.” San Antonio Express News, January 8, 2021.

“What we can learn from studying ‘Who Killed Berta Caceres’” Waging Nonviolence, July 22, 2020.

“Review of ‘Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World.‘” E-International Relations, October 25, 2018.

“Review of ‘Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century.‘” E-International Relations, April 7, 2018.

“Hummingbirds” BlueLakeReview, March 2018.

“Higher Education in the Age of Trump.” Intersections, Spring 2017. 6-11.

“Is Donald Trump a Legitimate President?” Partially Examined Life, January 26, 2017.

“The Legitimacy of American Hegemony in the Age of Trump.” Duck of Minerva, December 3, 2016.