Writing & Media Appearances
Michael Koncewicz has published writing across top-tier publications, including The Washington Post, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Politico, and The Nation.
His television appearances include CBS News, EPIX’s docu-series Slow Burn, Buzzfeed news, and more. Michael also provides commentary on dozens of podcast and radio shows, such as Nostalgia Trap and NPR.
Recent Work and Interviews
The Alarming Effort to Rewrite the History of Watergate
Time
March 24, 2025
Michael Koncewicz: Out of the Archives
By Amanda Malone
UC Irvine School of Humanities
September 19, 2024
Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Capitol Hill Antiwar Lobbyists
Jacobin
March 11, 2024
Faces of ALBA: “Students Are Drawn to Antifascism,”- Michael Koncewicz
The Volunteer
Sebastiaan Faber
May 17, 2023
Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War
Jacobin
August 25, 2022
Gaslit Zeroes in on Loyalty to Nixon, But Not Nixon’s Crimes
Clio and the Contemporary
July 8, 2022
No Turning Back: Ten Years After Occupy
A Digital Exhibit on Occupy Wall Street
(Co-Curated with Shannon O’Neill)
October 2021)
“Do Jobs Outside of the Academy Support Scholarship?”
The Academic Jobs Crisis: A Forum
Passport: SHAFR Review
April 2021
“The Past and Future of the Left in the Democratic Party”
(With Michael Brenes)
The Nation
December 9, 2020
Review of David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot:
Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White
Working-Class Revolution
New York Labor History Association
December 6, 2020
“Republicans won’t speak out against Trump
because they’re afraid politically”
Washington Post
November 20, 2020
“Loyalty and Duty in the Federal Bureaucracy,
From Nixon to Trump”
History News Network
October 4, 2020
“Rightwing Populism and the White Neighborhood”
Journal of Urban History
September 14, 2020
Tin’s Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming (With Robert Cohen)
The Nation
May 4, 2020.
The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President
The Atlantic
November 19, 2019
All the President’s Librarians
Contingent
July 19, 2019
Anonymous ‘resistance’ is weak tea compared with standing up to Nixon
CNN
September 7, 2019
Trump is acting like Richard Nixon. Now we need
other to channel the heroes of Watergate
The Washington Post
August 25, 2018
Today’s GOP have little in common with those
who resisted Nixon
The Conversation
August 23, 2018
Reporting from Behind Enemy Lines: How the National
Guardian and Liberation Brought Vietnam to the American Left
American Journalism
Spring 2018
How Republican dirty tricks paved the way for
Russian meddling in 2016
The Washington Post
March 09, 2018
Review of Robert Justin Goldstein’s Discrediting the Cold War: Discrediting the Red Scare.
The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
American Communist History
Vol 17, 1, 2018
The Gatekeepers Who Shaped the Modern White House
Reviews in American History
Johns Hopkins University
Volume 46, Number 1, March 2018
It took heroes inside of the administration to bring
down Nixon. We should be so lucky in 2017
The Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2017
The Trump Administration’s Problem with Watergate
History News Network
March 19, 2017
Media Appearances
Television
NewsNation
How Trump’s Second Inauguration Will Differ From His First
January 18, 2025
American Political History Conference (C-SPAN)
Panel Discussion on Presidential Scandals
June 11, 2022
Featured in Slow Burn’s Watergate Documentary (EPIX)
Episode 6: Saturday Night Massacre & Impeachment
BuzzFeed News
That Literally Happened? (Multiple Episodes)
- That Time the President Forgot How to Spell “Potato”
- Bob Dole and Viagra
- Hands Across America
- Y2K Revisited
September 2019- December 2019
CBS News (CBSN)
45th Anniversary of Richard Nixon’s Resignation August 8, 2019
Brademas Center of New York University (NYU-TV)
Timothy Naftali (Interlocutor), They Said No to Nixon
February 28, 2019
C-SPAN (Book-TV)
They Said No to Nixon Book Talk
November 10, 2018
i24 News
Take :30 with Shayna Estulin
January 14, 2019
Fox TV’s Chasing News (MY9NJ)
Woman Fights To Remove Congressman/Soviet Spy's Name From NYC Plaza
May 23, 2017
Podcast & Radio
Mind Blown Podcast
The Hidden Power of Student Protests
May 21, 2024
Politics + Media 101
Was the 2024 Democratic Convention Anything Like 1968?
August 27, 2024
Out of the Blank Podcast
December 14, 2023
America’s Democrats Podcast
Jim Cuddy, Political Reckonings
January 18, 2021
The Nostalgia Trap
David Parsons, Episode 224: Michael Koncewicz
October 19, 2020
Morano in the Morning (AM 970 The Answer)
Frank Morano, Presidential Libraries,
February 16, 2020
Letters and Politics (KPFA- Berkeley, CA)
Mitch Jesserich, Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump
January 31, 2020
Politics Junkie (PRX)
Ken Rudin, They Said No to Nixon
January 30, 2020
America’s Democrats Podcast
Jim Cuddy, Dangers to Democracy
October 28, 2019
A Public Affair (WORT- Madison, WI)
Esty Dinur, Nixon, Trump, and the History of Impeachment
September 27, 2019
Get Up! (WOWD- Tacoma Park, MD)
Michael Causey, They Said No to Nixon
February 4, 2019
Trump Watch (KPFK- Los Angeles)
Jon Wiener, Michael Koncewicz on Nixon
November 29, 2018
New Books Network
Bill Scher, They Said No to Nixon
October 11, 2018
The Show (NPR- KJZZ- Phoenix)
Steve Goldstein, Republicans Told Nixon To Resign —
Will They Do The Same To Trump?
September 10, 2018
United States of Anxiety (NPR-WNYC- New York)
Kai Wright, Post-Episode Call-In Show
June 27, 2017
The Nostalgia Trap
David Parsons, Episode 68: Michael Koncewicz
June 25, 2017
To The Point (NPR-KCRW- Los Angeles)
Warren Olney, Is the House Intel Committee's Russia probe dead?
March 23, 2017
Featured Comments
"Nixon paved the way for Trump’s "new standard" of inaugural fundraising"
Cara Michelle Smith
Salon
January 18, 2025
“All the President’s Apologists”
Caleb Brennan
In These Times
December 17, 2024
”Chaos on Campus…Then And Now”
Michelle Willens
Katie Couric Media
May 12, 2024
”What was the Legacy of Watergate Scandal?”
History Today
June 2, 2022
“Hunter S. Thompson’s
longtime editor ponders “Fear and Loathing in 2020”
Scott Thomas Anderson
San Francisco Chronicle
July 19, 2020
“Five reasons Trump is poised to get acquitted—but Watergate brought down Nixon”
James Hohmann
The Daily 202 (The Washington Post)
January 28, 2020
“How a stronger anti-war movement rallied to stop a march to war with Iran”
Nahal Toosi
Politico
January 19, 2020
“Mnuchin's refusal to release Trump's taxes recalls a treasury secretary who resisted White House pressure”
James Hohmann
The Daily 202 (The Washington Post)
May 7, 2019