Media
“The Real Tucker Carlson Question,” The Contrarian Conservative, March 14, 2019
“Why the Democrats Chose Milwaukee,” The Atlantic, March 13, 2019
“Democrats Embrace Two (More) Bad Ideas,” The Bulwark, March 11, 2019
“Year Zero: No, conservative victories did not begin with Trump,” The Bulwark, March 5, 2019
“Hayek Saw This Coming,” The Bulwark, February 26, 2019
“What’s the Endgame of Trumpism?,” The Bulwark, February 23, 2019
“Conservatives Should Not Abandon the Free Press,” The Bulwark, February 21, 2019
“Jussie Smollett and the Perils of Greater Wokeness,” The Bulwark, February 18, 2019
“Lots of People Had a Worse Week Than Howard Schultz,” The Bulwark, February 11, 2019
“The Foxconn Boondoggle Was Even Worse Than We Thought,” The Bulwark, February 7, 2019
“What If It Were Trump in Blackface?” February 4, 2019
“Conservatives Need to Love the Filibuster Again,” The Bulwark, February 4, 2019
“Who Thought the Shutdown Was a Good Idea?,” The Bulwark, January 27, 2019
“Four Lessons From the Covington Kids Kerfuffle,” The Bulwark, January 24, 2019
“The Media’s Prime Directive,” The Bulwark, January 21, 2019
“Be Careful What You Wish For,” The Bulwark, January 14, 2019
“The Purge We Need,” The Bulwark, January 11, 2019
“The “Crisis” Isn’t at the Border,”The Bulwark, January 8, 2019
“What Romney Exposed About Late-Stage Trumpism,” The Bulwark, January 7, 2019
“Wisconsin Republicans Are Shooting Themselves In the Foot,” The Atlantic, November 6, 2018
“What We Remember Too Late,” The Weekly Standard, December 4, 2018
“A Speech In Search Of A Candidate,” The Weekly Standard, November 19, 2018
“Donald Trump’s Anti-Semitism Problem—And Ours,” the Weekly Standard, October 29, 2018,
“The Derangement of the Conservative Mind,” The Weekly Standard, October 26, 2018
“Debating the Once and Future Conservatism,” The Weekly Standard, October 22, 2018
“What We Can Learn From Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test,” The Weekly Standard, October 15, 2018
“Democrats Are Fighting Dumb Instead of Fighting Hard,” The Weekly Standard, October 9, 2018
“It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Fool the Academic Left,” The Weekly Standaard, October 8, 2018
“The Anger of Brett Kavanaugh,” The Weekly Standard, October 2, 2018
“How the GOP Became Trump’s Party,” (Book excerpt), The Weekly Standard, October 1, 2018
“Democrats Behaving Badly,” The Weekly Standard, September 12, 2018
"The Oddity of the Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed," The Weekly Standard, September 6, 2018
"The Rot at the Top," The Weekly Standard, August 23, 2018
"Falwell the Lesser," the Weekly Standard, August 22, 2018
"We’re All Living in a Trumpian Reality Show," The Weekly Standard, August 15, 2018
"Republicans Are Now Conceding Their Core Values," Time, July 27, 2018
"Republicans, Don’t Just Tweet About It. Do Something.," The New York Times, July 21, 2018
"11 Things We Learned from Russia Week," The Weekly Standard, July 20, 2018
"A New Servility," The Weekly Standard, July 16, 2018
"Wisconsin Spring," National Review, July 12, 2018
"8 Takeaways from the Kavanaugh Pick," The Weekly Standard, July 10, 2018
"A Landmark Victory for Academic Freedom," The Weekly Standard, July 6, 1018
"Jerkitude," The Weekly Standard, June 25, 2018
"The New Cruelty," The Weekly Standard, June 21, 2018
"Season 2 of the Trump Show Is Off the Hook," The Weekly Standard, June 9, 2018
"The Mystery of Scott Pruitt's Mattress," The Weekly Standard, June 7, 2018
"Is Donald Trump a Bernie Bro?" The Weekly Standard, June 4, 2018
"Smug Alert!," The Weekly Standard, May 17, 2018
"Donald Trump’s Crab Bucket Moral Universe," The Weekly Standard, May 14, 2018
"The Closing of The Liberal Mind," The Weekly Standard, May 10, 2018
"When Everything Is Possible and Nothing Is True," The Weekly Standard, May 9, 2018
"Matt Schlapp Is... Right?" The Weekly Standard, May 3, 2018
"Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely," The Weekly Standard, May 2, 2018
"Patrick Buchanan’s Strange New Respect for the Ayatollah," The Weekly Standard, April 27, 2018
"But Gorsuch! Does Trump Even Understand Judicial Conservatism?" The Weekly Standard, April 23, 2018
"The Conscience of Ann Coulter," The Weekly Standard, April 5, 2018
"Privacy's #MeToo Moment?" The Weekly Standard, March 29, 2018
"Ruth, meet Gracie," the Weekly Standard, March 24, 2018
Adam Rubenstein, "Charlie Sykes: What Should Trump Read?" The Weekly Standard, January 31, 2018
"Charlie Sykes, Knight commissioner, on why truth matters, VIDEO, Medium, January 30, 2018
"Is Trump's presidency finally becoming normal?" NBCNews.com, January 20, 2018
"Retirement Tips for the Age of Trump," The New York Times, January 7, 2018
"A G.O.P. Tragedy in Four Acts", The New York Times, December 13, 2017
"Year One: The Mad King," New York Review of Books Daily, November 10, 2017
"Whatever Happened to the Party of Fiscal Responsibility," Los Angeles Times, November 10, 2017
"Why Jeff Flake Is Going to Need a Good Dog," Politico Magazine, october 26, 2017
"A Guide for Frustrated Conservatives in the Age of Trump," NBC News THINK, October 23, 2017
"Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes says GOP needs to stop 'enabling' Trump," ABC News, October 15, 2017
Book excerpt: Charlie Sykes' 'How the Right Lost its Mind'," ABC News.com, October 15, 2017
"The NRA and GOP, Together Forever," The New York Times, October 8, 2017
" Charles J. Sykes: Where the Right Went Wrong," Time.com, October 5, 2017
"How the Right Lost Its Mind And Embraced Donald Trump," Newsweek (cover story), September 29, 2017
Charlie Sykes: Roy Moore Signals the End of the Republican Party, Time.com, September 28, 2017
"Charlie Sykes Is Unsure About the Future of the GOP," Sunday New York Times Magazine, August 21, 2017
"Political Coverage and the Pressure to Get It Right," Nieman Reports, July 22, 2017
"Why the Case for Transparency Must Be Made Anew." Nieman Reports, June 22, 2017
"The Danger of ignoring Alex Jones," The New York Times, June 18, 2017
"How conservatives betrayed virtue for Donald Trump," USA Today, June 15, 2017
“If Liberals Hate Him, Then Trump Must Be Doing Something Right,” The New York Times, May 12, 2017
“Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying,” The New York Times, February 4, 2017
“Charlie Sykes on Where the Right Went Wrong,” The New York Times, December 15, 2016
“Charlie Sykes: It's time to put truth before political tribe,” America Magazine, June 5, 2017
"Will the Left save Donald Trump?" Washington Examiner, February 9, 2017
"Trump leaves conservatives with a choice between party and principle," Washington Examiner, January 19, 2017
“Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media” Politico Magazine, November 25, 2016
Media mentions
Molly Ball, “Republican Senate Candidates Are Gambling on Trump,” TIME, November 2, 2018
Ben Wittes, “I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him,” the Atlantic, October 2, 2018
Jennifer Rubin, "Morning Bits: The walls close in," The Washington Post, August 24, 2018
"Bill Maher criticizes social media bans: ‘Alex Jones gets to speak’," The Hill, August 18, 2018
"Newspapers speak up about Trump’s repeated attacks," PBS NewsHour, August 16, 2018
The Federalist Radio Hour At Aspen Ideas Festival: The Future Of The American Right, July 5, 2018
David Smith, "How Trump captured the Republican party," the Guardian, June 10, 2018
Katelyn Caralle," Paul Ryan shoots down narrative that he lost the GOP to Donald Trump," Washington Examiner, April 15, 2018
Russell Berman, "Paul Ryan's Unrealized Conservative Vision," The Atlantic, April 11, 2018
Jeet Heer, "Why Conservatives Tolerate Trump’s Crony Capitalism,"The New Republic, March 30, 2018
Darren Samuelsohn, " Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller," Politico, March 28, 2018
Niall Stanage, "The Memo: Women create new legal woes for Trump," The Hill, March 21, 2018
Ezra Klein, "Donald Trump, Fox News, and the logic of alternative facts," Vox, February 9, 2018
Jason Schwartz, "Fox News hosts ramp up ‘deep state’ conspiracies," Politico, January 26, 2018
All Things Considered, "Barbershop: Trump's First Year In Office," NPR, January 20, 2018
Elena Schneider, "GOP reels after ‘electric shock’ defeat," Politico, January 17, 2018
Katie Glueck, ‘Extreme tribalism’ clawing at the GOP as 2018 opens", Miami Herald, December 31, 2017
Andrew W. Griffin, "Today's GOP buried in a blizzard of shame," Red Dirt Report, December 13, 2017
Q&A: Charlie Sykes, political commentator and author, The Princetonian, December 5, 2017
John Hart, "Is Ideology Becoming America's Official Religion?" Forbes, November 30, 2017
Rosie Gray and McKay Coppins, "Conservatives Reap the Whirlwind of Their War on the Media," The Atlantic, November 17, 2017
Jason Schwartz, "Fox, facing new competitors, clings tighter to Trump," Politico, November 9, 2017
Isaac Chotiner, "Conservative in the Wilderness: Charlie Sykes was a right-wing radio star. Then Trump won," Slate, October 23, 2017
Jonathan Chait, "The Republican Roots of Trumpism," New York Magazine, October 24, 2017
"Charlie Sykes and the conscience of a (lonely) conservative" Salon, Octber 7, 20-17
"Charlie Sykes’ New Book Shows ‘How the Right Lost Its Mind’," Texas Observer, October 5, 2017
Rachel Bade, "Ryan faces diciest stretch of his speakership," Politico, August 25, 2017
Gabrielle Debenedetti, "Dems prep for Pence, Kasich, Haley to run in 2020," Politico, August 22, 2017
Jim Rutenberg, "Behind the Bluster of Steve Bannon's #War Cry," The New York Times, August 20, 2017
"Steve Bannon, destroyer of worlds: After electing a president, he’s back to building a right-wing media empire," Salon, August 21, 2017
"Top Republicans Criticize White Supremacists, But Don't Call Out Trump," NPR, August 16, 2017
"The conservatives turning against Donald Trump," The Guardian, August 8, 2017
Molly Ball, "The Final Humiliation of Reince Priebus,'" The Atlantic, July 30, 2017
David Smith, 'The president is a pyromaniac': the week Trump set fire to the White House, The Guardian, July 29, 2017
Jennifer Steinhauer, "On Health, Republicans Find They Cannot Beat Something With Nothing," The New York Times, July 28, 2017
Paul Bedard, "Drudge, Limbaugh created 2016 'voter insurrection,' Trump win," Washington Examiner, July 10, 2017
Maureen Dowd, “Trump’s HandtoHand Combat,” The New York Times, May 27, 2017
Karen Tumulty, Robert Costa, "The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought," The Washington Post, May 26, 2017
E. J. Dionne, “The anti-Trump right is becoming a breed of its own,” Washington Post, May 27, 2017
Karen Tumulty, “Trump faces a crisis of credibility — and judgment,” Washington Post, May 16, 2017
Katherine Schulten, "Teaching Orwell and ’1984’ With The New
York Times, The New York Times, February 9, 2017
Oliver Darcy, "Donald Trump broke the conservative media," Business Insiderm Augist 26, 2016
Profiles/Interviews
"Charlie Sykes: Trump and a Gutless GOP Wrecked the Party," The Daily Beast, October 10, 2017
Mona Charen, “How Charlie Sykes Helped Turn Wisconsin Red,” National Review, December 23, 2016
“Radio Host Charlie Sykes Says Conservative Media Will Give Cover To Trump,” Here and Now, NPR/WBUR
Eli Stokols, “Why Wisconsin's 'Never Trump' movement is different,” Politico, March 30, 2016