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Was 'Little House on the Prairie' 'Woke'? The Answer Explains American Politics. 
22 February 2025, POLITICO Magazine
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Dump Kamala Harris? She's Joe Biden's Secret Weapon.
3 April 2024, ​Washington Monthly
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The Feel of the Flames
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5 December 2023, ​Oxford American
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The War on LGBTQ People Being Waged in Rural America
25 June 2023, ​The New Republic
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Trump's looming indictments pose a big question for the media
18 March 2022, ​Salon
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Perfume Genius Sings the Body Electric

​17 June 2022, ​The Atlantic
Selected Politics
"Just lean in, Joe: Biden needs to embrace his old age," ​Salon
"Another Trump win in his proxy war with DeSantis," Salon
"Trump's looming potential indictments pose a big question for the media: How to cover his campaign?" Salon
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"Queen Elizabeth's Final Act, in Scotland," Salon
"The Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly," New York Times
"No More Reader-in-Chief," Salon
"Appalachia Burning," New York Times
“Appalachia Turns On Itself,” New York Times

Selected Culture
"Saving the Farm: How One Southern Family Has Long Championed the Radical Power of Rural Life," Garden & Gun​
"I Pledge Allegiance to This House," ​Town & Country
"How a Globetrotting Designer Reinvented a Louisville Victorian," Town & Country
"When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir: Casey Parks discusses her book Diary of a Misfit," Oxford American
"Erin Keane Talks Runaway," Appalachian Review
"Queer Sexual Bodies are Despised," an interview with novelist Garth Greenwell in Salon
"Gay and Underground in West Virginia," Still: The Journal
"Beauty in Battered Places," an interview with bestselling novelist Denise Giardina in Sojourners
"The State of Fairness," a feature about Kentucky's fairness movement in LEO Weekly
"Season of Reflection," a profile of author Fenton Johnson in LEO Weekly
"Fanfare for the Common Man," a feature about Kentucky poet and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Maurice Manning in LEO Weekly
"Appalachian Mountaintopping: An American Tragedy" in the international magazine Revolve 
“Where Her Heart Is,” a feature about Ashley Judd in Sojourners

Selected Music
​"Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky," Oxford American
"Her Rightful Place: The Everlasting Legend of Tanya Tucker," Oxford American
"The Haunting of Carly Simon," Salon
"You Gotta Move," a profile of Parker Millsap in Sojourners
"Patty Griffin, American Storyteller," LEO Weekly
"Roots Music Connects Contemporary Readers to the Bluegrass State, Kentucky," Utne Reader
“Dancing Through Life: Yoko Ono Talks Discrimination, Marriage Equality,” LGBTQ Nation

Selected Essays
"Yellow Diamonds in the Light," Wildsam Field Guide: Kentucky Bourbon Country
"Celestial Navigation," Oxford American and the anthology ​Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia
"The Saving Grace of Mary Oliver," The Millions
"If God Had a Name," Oxford American
"To Have and Have Not," 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
"The Fog Walker," Lumina Journal
"Bastards and Ghosts," Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia 
"The Way of Holiness," Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place
© Jason Kyle Howard
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