* The Sexual Life of English Law (2004)
* America's Closet: Hidden Lives and Sexual Secrets in the 1950s (2009)
* Forbidden: The Untold Story of the Scandal That Rocked the White House and Destroyed a President's Legacy (2012)
* Our Vietnam: The War, the Memories, and the Myths (2019)
Articles and essays:
* "The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" (The Atlantic, 2011)
* "The Man Who Would Be President: Barry Goldwater and the 1964 Election" (The New Republic, 2014)
* "The Last Taboo: Sex in the Eisenhower Era" (The Journal of American History, 2015)
* "The Vietnam War: A 50-Year Retrospective" (Foreign Policy, 2015)
Op-eds and commentaries:
* "Trump's Vietnam War Pardon Is a Betrayal of American Values" (The New York Times, 2018)
* "The Sexual Assault Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh Are a Threat to American Democracy" (The Washington Post, 2018)
* "The Mueller Investigation Is Not a Witch Hunt" (CNN, 2019)
* "The Impeachment of Donald Trump Is a Necessary Step to Protect American Democracy" (The Atlantic, 2019)