NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

"Reconstruction Aid to Ukraine: What we know (or should know) from the history of 1990s assistance to Eastern Europe," VOX EU, June 14, 2023; VOX Ukraine

"When Civilizational Models Collide," Project Syndicate, March 3, 2023.

"It's 2020. Do You Know Who Your Government Is Serving? America Has Been Conflating Politics and Business for Years-And if We're Not Careful, We Could Go the Way of Post-Soviet Eastern Europe," Zócalo Public Square, December 10, 2020.

"It's Happening Here: What a Ukrainian Fitness Club Taught This Anthropologist about Dirty Togetherness in America," Medium, November 2, 2020.

"Dirty Populists," Project Syndicate, January 2, 2019.

"Janine R. Wedel: Why so many distrust government: It doesn't work for them.," San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2017.

"Trump Is Right That the System Is "Rigged"-and He's Stacking It More: Average Americans Are Losing Power While Self-Serving Elites Lose Public Trust," Zocalo, May 16, 2017.

"A Field Guide to Trump's Swamp," Sapiens, January 19, 2017.

"The Battle-Hymn of the Generals-For-Hire," The Huffington Post, January 17, 2017.

"Foreign Influencing Goes Far, Far Beyond Russian Hack Attacks," The Huffington Post, December 21, 2016.

"'Extreme Vetting' Needed... For Pro-Putin Trump Players," The Huffington Post, December 14, 2016.

"Donald Trump and a World of Distrust," Project Syndicate, November 11, 2016.

"When the public's trust is betrayed, it only fuels a demagogue like Trump," The Huffington Post, November 1, 2016.

"Trumpism 101: The Outsider, Ignored For Years. No longer.," The Huffington Post, October 27, 2016.

"Clinton's Credibility Questioned as Bill's Philanthropy 'Takes It to the Limit'," HuffPost Politics, February 29, 2016.

"We Need to Clean Up Our Understanding of Corruption," New America Weekly, December 17, 2015.
Syndicated and reprinted: Pacific Standard, January 8, 2016.

"The Petraeus Wrist-slap," USA Today, March 24, 2015.

Editors' Pick: "Beyond Bribery: It's time to start fighting the most insidious form of corruption — the kind that's legal," Foreign Policy, February 17, 2015.

"Davos & Disruption Done Right: In Praise of "Difficult Women" in Finance," Featured in The Huffington Post, February 5, 2015.

"This is why Piketty matters: Davos and the real story about economists and the 1 percent," Salon, February 1, 2015.

"Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses," The Washington Post, January 12, 2015. (Read in PDF)

"In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy" Discover Society, December 1, 2014, Issue 15.

"'Dark money' goes way beyond elections: Column. Three areas where hidden cash holds sway" USA Today, November 21, 2014.

"Booted by Voters? Still in Hot Demand: 5 Places Former Pols Go After Leaving Congress" The Huffington Post, November 18, 2014.

"Is Your Doctor on Big Pharma's Dole?" The Huffington Post, October 8, 2014.

"Caymans' Folly: Do You Know Where Your Pension Funds Are?" The Huffington Post, February 14, 2013.

"It Was A Wonderful Life: My Odyssey with Bank of America" In The Huffington Post, December 1, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Shaving Cream — Murdoch's Only Punishment?" In The Huffington Post, July 21, 2011.

"Will Foreign Aid Dollars Help or Hurt Democracy in the Middle East?" In The Huffington Post, June 2, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Capitalism's Crisis Within, and How Larry Summers Still Doesn't Get It." In The Huffington Post, April 21, 2011.

"Shadow Lobbyists & The "Scholars-for-Dollars" Who Helped Rebrand Libya" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 24, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: Libya and the Consummate Shadow Lobbyist -- Neocon Richard Perle" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 3, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Grover Norquist -- Many GOP Legislators Privately Favor Afghanistan Withdrawal" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, February 17, 2011.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: The Egypt Crackdown -- Shades of Poland Under Martial Law" In The Huffington Post, February 3, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Eisenhower's Dark Vision Realized - The Military-Industrial Complex At 50" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, January 13, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Do Economists Need a Code of Ethics?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, January 6, 2011.

"Shadow Elite: Truthiness, Porn and the Real Problem With Reality TV" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, November 18, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Truthiness in the Twitter Era" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, October 21, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The Small Government Lie – How Both Parties Stood By as Our Government Burned" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, October 7, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The DISCLOSE Act — Who's Blindfolding the American Electorate?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 23, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Elizabeth Warren's Best Credential: Outsider " (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 16, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: What Blackwater Sells (and the Government Wants): Deniability" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 9, 2010.
Picked up by USA Today.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam: Government Contracting — A Free Market Farce" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, September 2, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — The Collision of State & Private Power" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 26, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — Who's Overseeing the Contractors?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 19, 2010.

"How the Shadow Elite Is Shorting 'Third World America'" In The Huffington Post, August 9, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam — War in the Contracting Age" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, August 5, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks: Irresponsible or Indispensable?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 29, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam & Outsourcing American Power" In The Huffington Post, July 22, 2010.
Referenced at WSJ.

"Shadow Elite: How "Grassroots" Is Organizing for America?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 15, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Has the Obama Organizing Machine Staged A Party Takeover?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 8, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Rolling Stone's Hastings — How Outsiders Provide the Indispensable Check & Balance" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, July 1, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: McChrystal, Through the Looking Glass" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 24, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Neocons Blast Back, On Israel's Behalf" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 10, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: BP And Government's Titanic Failure — Outsourcing Its Talent (And Power)" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, June 3, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Wall Street Culture - They Still Don't Get It (Except Their Bonuses)" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, May 27, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Derivatives, A Horror Story" In The Huffington Post, May 20, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Think BP's The Bad Guy? Think Bigger, Way Bigger" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, May 13, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Neocons, The Holocaust & Emergency Powers" In The Huffington Post, May 6, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Wall Street Profiteers - Capitalists or Communists?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, April 29, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Goldman Sachs - Fraud Is Not the Scandal" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, April 22, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Warrantless Wiretap Case & Obama: Abuse of Executive Power?" In The Huffington Post, April 9, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War — The Neocon Playbook, Straight from the Soviet Bloc." In The Huffington Post, March 25, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War — Is Ahmed Chalabi Under Iran's Thumb?" In The Huffington Post, March 18, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: March to War — Rove, Perle, & Truthiness" In The Huffington Post, March 11, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Why Did Military Top Brass Flout Its Own Chain of Command?" (with Linda Keenan). In The Huffington Post, March 4, 2010.

"Reinventing America: Just End the Budget-Busting Shadow Government" In The Globalist, February 26, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: Why Sarah Palin's Really Selling Big Government" In The Huffington Post, February 11, 2010.

"Shadow Elite: The Spy Who Came in From... Wall Street?" In The Huffington Post, February 04, 2010.

"Research on Policy: Shadow Elite: How the Study of Post-Communist Societies Illuminates US Power Structures." In Anthropology News, vol. 51, issue 2, February 2010, p. 27.

"'Shadow Elite': Did The Supreme Court Just Trash Democracy and the Free Market?" In The Huffington Post, January 28, 2010.

"'Shadow Elite': Do You Know Whose Agenda You're Being Sold?" In The Huffington Post, January 21, 2010.

"For The Shadow Elite Failure Often Guarantees Future Rewards" In The Huffington Post, January 14, 2010.

"Is the Government In Charge, Or Is It the Shadow Elite?" In The Huffington Post, January 7, 2010.

"Wall Street's bailout gives me déjà vu: The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way." In Salon, November 8, 2009.

"Ethical Research across Power Divides." In Anthropology Newsletter, September 2009, issue 6, p. 18.

"The Shadow Army." In The Boston Globe, September 30, 2007, p. D.9.

"Harvard’s Role in U.S. Aid to Russia.” In The Boston Globe, March 25, 2006, p. A15.

"Flex Power: A Capital Way to Gain Clout, Inside and Out." The Washington Post, Sunday, December 12, 2004; p. B04.
(Also on web site: washingtonpost.com, titled "Flex Power: An Influential Band of Policy Brothers").

"Neocon 'Flex Players' Await Bush's Second Term." In Pacific News Service, November 3, 2004.
Read in PDF.

"Danger of Private Agendas in Foreign Policy." In Financial Times, August 11, 2004, p. 11.

"Too Tightknit to be Accountable: The outsourcing of crucial government functions to private individuals and companies is an alarming trend." In Salon, August 12, 2004.

"Who Taught Crony Capitalism to Russia?"  In The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001.

"Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin."  In The National Interest, no. 59, Spring 2000, pp. 23-34.
Read in PDF.

"Tainted Transactions: An Exchange. Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Janine Wedel. Wedel Replies. "  In The National Interest, no. 60, Summer 2000, pp. 107-110.
Read in PDF.

"Wedel Replies." In The National Interest, no. 61, Fall 2000, pp. 120-121.
Read in PDF.

"U.S. Economic Aid to Eastern Europe: A Case Study in Transactorship." In "Legal Reform, Investment Markets and International Assistance: The Russian Market Transition in 2000," The Harriman Economic and Business Review, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 16-25.

"How the Chubais Clan, Harvard Fed Corruption."  In Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1999, p. M1.

"U.S. Aid to Kosovo: Lessons from Past Experience." Testimony (written and oral) before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, August 4, 1999.

"Baiting the Bear." In The Washington Times, June 23, 1999, p. A17.

"From Triumphalism to Reality." In Foreign Service Journal, June 1999, vol. 76, no.6, pp. 40-46.

"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C.: CATO Institute, no. 338, March 22, 1999.

"Aid to Russia." In Foreign Policy in Focus, vol. 3, no. 25, September 1998.

"U.S. Aid Added to Russia's Woes." In San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 1998, p. A27.

"The Harvard Boys Do Russia:  How the Best and Brightest Helped Destroy the Russian Economy." In The Nation, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-16 (cover story).

"How AID 'Reformed' Russia." In Foreign Service Journal, vol. 75, no. 5, May 1998, pp. 26-33.

"Cliques and Clans and Aid to Russia: How the U.S. Buoyed the 'St. Petersburg Clan." In Transition, vol. 4, no. 2, July 1997, pp. 66-71.

"Abuse of Trust: U.S., Russia, and Harvard."  In The Boston Globe, Thursday, May 29, 1997, p. A15.

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"Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Anthropology Newsletter, December 1995, vol. 36, no. 9, p. 11.

"Aid Conference in Washington: Greater Recipients Involvement Advised." In Transition. vol. 6, no. 4, World Bank, Washington, D.C. April. 1995, p. 10.

"In Russia, Don't Tie US Aid to Privatization." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 1995, p. 18.

"Studying Up: Amending the First Principle of Anthropological Ethics." (with David A. Kideckel). In Anthropology Newsletter, October 1994, vol. 35, no. 7, p. 37.

"Lessons of Western Technical Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Transition, vol. 5, no. 6, World Bank, Washington, D.C. July-August 1994, pp. 14-17.

"Central and Eastern Europe: Unfinished Revolutions." Policy Paper published by the Atlantic Council of the United States, Jan. 1993. Author, Additional Views; Member, Working Group.

Testimony (written and oral) on "U.S. Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. April 7, 1992.

"Getting it Right in Aid to Russia." In The New York Times (FORUM, Sunday Business Section). April 5, 1992.

"Polish Officials Sour on U.S. Aid Approach." In The Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 1992.

"Beware Western Governments Bearing Gifts." In The Wall Street Journal Europe, January 14, 1992.

"The Economist Heard around the World." In World Monitor, October 1990 (cover story).

Series of four op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Winter, 1990:
    • "German Reunification, Polish Vulnerability."
       (March 29, 1990)
    • "Poles Try to Catch up with Capitalism." (March 12, 1990)
    • "After Poland's Euphoria." (January 5, 1990)
    • "Solidarity's Caution." (December 28, 1989)

"Lech's Labors Lost?" In World Monitor. November 1989 (cover story).

"Why Solidarity Appears Unable to Make Progress: Poland's 'Inner Circle' Struggling." In San Francisco Chronicle. November 8, 1989.

Series of six op ed articles on Eastern Europe. In The Christian Science Monitor (International Edition). Fall 1989:
    • "Polish Survivors of the Gulag." (October 31, 1989)
    • "Poland: Still Socialist." (October 19, 1989)
    • "The Grass-Roots Revolution in Poland."
       (September 28, 1989)
    • "Solidarity in Decline." (September 21, 1989)
    • "Poland's Fledgling Parties." (September 14, 1989)
    • "Solidarity's Quandary, Now it's Responsible."
       (September 7, 1989)

"New Wave of Polish Activists, Entrepreneurs." In The Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 1989.

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