Writing/Media

Opinion

• Why American democracy and prosperity depend on mathematical literacy, with Vicki Abeles, The Mercury News, May 2025.

• How the Temporary Protected Status program saved my life, Cognoscenti, April 2025.

• Americans agree politics is broken – here are 5 ideas for fixing key problems, The Conversation, November 2024.

• American democracy needs a redesign, Cognoscenti, November 2024.

• The Electoral College is bad for democracy. Math can fix that, Cognoscenti, June 2024.

• Americans break election ties in crazy ways – and jeopardize democracy in the process, The Conversation, May 2024.

• Prison gerrymandering: districting behind bars, with Brielle Collins, Grace Hennessy, and Katie Parkins, Common Cause, May 2024.

• Our innumerate democracy, Princeton University Press Ideas, April 2024.

• Want a better voting system? Try watching TV, The Progressive, April 2024.

• Gerrymandering isn't new – but now we have a solution, TIME, April 2024.

• The threat to democracy runs deep but mathematics could address the abominable state of representation and voting, Religion Dispatches, March 2024.

• Why voting in the Oscars (and in politics) is broken, and how to fix both, Literary Hub, March 2024.

• GOP primary elections use flawed math to pick nominees, The Conversation, February 2024.

• Boston needs ranked choice voting, CommonWealth Magazine, August 2023.

• The math is working in Trump's favor (again), Rank the Vote, June 2023.

• Does America Have a Mathematically Flawed Democracy? Let Us Count the Ways, Rank the Vote, March 2022.

• Why are we adopting an archaic, discriminatory, and mathematically unsound electoral election system? (in Bosnian), Infodan, February 2022.

• Mobilize the diaspora, end the pandemic!, with Ljiljana Djukanović, The Massachusetts Review, May 2021.

• The innumeracy of our presidential elections, The Hill, October 2020.

• The Latest Argument for Ranked-Choice Voting? Last Week's Primary, Cognoscenti, September 2020.

• The Missing Ingredient in Our Democracy: Math, Education Week, March 2020.

• Immigrants Are Ambassadors For American Values — That Can Be Good For The World, Cognoscenti, October 2018.

• 'America Would Obviously Not Do This' — The Election, And An Immigrant's Disbelief, Cognoscenti, November 2016.

Other writing

• Mathematics as the foundation of democracy... and perhaps its future, with Andy Schultz, Mathematical Association of America Focus, June 2024.

• Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, with Stanley Chang and Andy Schultz, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 2021.

• Traps in interpreting statistics (in Bosnian), Mediacentar, August 2021.

Media

Here are some of my public and media appearances and interviews, as well as media coverage of my work. Many of the linked interviews and videos are in Bosnian and many of them are about my book Making Democracy Count.

• The Mathematical Intelligencer, May 2025

• Ivy Bookshop, April 2025

• PROSE Award finalist, March 2025

• SXSW EDU, March 2025

• Reader's House, March 2025

• Social Studies Journal, December 2024

• The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, December 23, 2024

• The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, December 9, 2024

• The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, December 2, 2024

• Cognoscenti, November 2024

• Radio Free Europe, November 2024

• Law360, November 2024

• The New York Times, October 2024

• The Wellesley News, October 2024

• Symposium Books, October 2024

• Buka, October 2024

• Harvard Club of Boston, October 2024

• IMSI podcast – apportionment, October 2024

• IMSI podcast – voting, October 2024

• Wellesley's The Lamppost, October 2024

• Law of the West, September 2024

• Indie Reader, September 2024

• Princeton Public Library, September 2024

• WiMS podcast, September 2024

• Kirkus Reviews, September 2024

• National Civic Review, Summer 2024

• Reader's Favorite, August 2024

• Independent Review of Books, August 2024

• Literary Titan (and award and interview), August 2024

• Online Book Club, August 2024

• C-SPAN, July 2024

• Voice of America, July 2024

• Nauka govori, July 2024

• Voice of America, July 2024

• Breaking Math podcast, July 2024

• Oslobodjenje, July 2024

• N1 Izvan Okvira, June 2024

• Klix Studio, June 2024

• BHRT, June 2024

• FairVote webinar, May 2024

• Al Jazeera Balkans, April 2024

• Harvard Book Store, April 2024

• Keen On podcast, April 2024

• BNN Breaking, February 2024

• PUP Ideas podcast, February 2024

• Wellesley Magazine, November 2023

• Klix, September 2023

• TV Sarajevo, September 2023

• Federal BH radio, September 2023

• Voice of America, June 2023.

• N1 TV, January 2023.

• Nova avantura: inovativnost, BHRT, October 2022.

• Nova avantura: matematika, BHRT, October 2022.

• Federalna TV, June 2022.

• Voice of America, June 2022.

• BHRT, June 2022.

• FENA, June 2022.

• N1 TV, May 2022.

• Klix, May 2022.

• Al Jazeera, March 2022.

• Nova avantura, BHRT, March 2022.

• Wellesley Magazine, Winter 2022.

• N1 TV, February 2022.

• Al Jazeera, January 2022.

• Radio Sarajevo, December 2021.

• Nova avantura, BHRT, November 2021.

• Quantum of Science, November 2021.

• Moja BiH, November 2021.

• Radio Sarajevo, November 2021.

• Kliker, October 2021.

• Hayat TV, September 2021. 

• Al Jazeera, September 2021.

• Besjede o obrazovanju, August 2021.

• BHRT, July 2021.

• Glas nauke, BHRT, June 2021.

• N1 TV, June 2021.

• N1 TV, May 2021.

• BHRT, April 2021.

• N1 TV, October 2020.

• Buka Magazin, August 2020.

• TV Sarajevo, June 2020.

• Bljesak, June 2020.

• Hayat TV, April 2020.

• Radio Sarajevo, April 2020.

• Princeton Review, March 2020.

• Wellesley College, August, 2019.

• N1 TV, June 2019.

• Face TV, June 2019.

• Radio Sarajevo, June 2019.

• Dijaspora MHHR, April 2019.

• Moja BiH, November 2018.

• Dijaspora MHHR, September 2018.

• Radio Sarajevo, May 2018.

• Azra, June 2018.

• N1 TV, June 2018.

• TV Sarajevo, June 2018.

• BHRT, June 2018.

• Globe and Mail, January 2017.