Opinion pieces, reviews and other publications:

With Federico Finchelstein, “El avance de la derecha en Estados Unidos”, in Revista Común, 21 September 2020.

With Federico Finchelstein and Jason Stanley, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right to Warn of 'Fascism in the United States' ”, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2020.

With Federico Finchelstein, “El proyecto dictatorial de Donald Trump”, Nexos, Blog de la Redacción, 5 Aug. 2020.

“Algunas observaciones desde el supuesto epicentro: 2 de junio”, Revista Común, 9 Jun. 2020.

“Cómo contestar a las malas palabras”, Revista Común, 6 May. 2020.

“ 'Un momento estelar en la historia de México': sobre la conferencia de prensa del 22 de abril de 2020”, Revista Común, 6 May. 2020. Also in Nexos, 12 May 2020.

“La nota roja y la violencia de género tienen una historia complicada”, The Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2020.

“What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian of Mexico Pablo Piccato”, History News Network, 7 April 2019.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Donald Trump es desechable”, Nexos, Blog de la Redacción, 12 Sep. 2019.

With Andrés Lajous, “Tendencias históricas del crimen en México,” Nexos, 1 April 2018.

“Preguntas para una ciudad,” Nexos, 1 January 2018.

“Justicia, verdad, ¿amnistía? Reflexiones en modo condicional”, Nexos, Blog de la Redacción, 13 Dic. 2019.

With Federico Finchelstein, “La respuesta antifascista al fascismo y el populismo,” Nexos, December 1, 2017.

“Lessons from Mexico's Earthquakes: 1985 and Today,” NACLA Report, September 25, 2017.

“The Complicated History of Crime and the Truth in Mexico,” in University of California Press Blog, May 4, 2017.

“Crime in Mexico City,” in The Metropole: The official Blog of the Urban History Association, May 4, 2017.

“What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses,” in Time, 27 April, 2017.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Trump’s Latin American Model,” in Boston Review, 10 April 2017.

With A. Dirk Moses and Federico Finchelstein, “Juan Perón shows how Trump could destroy our democracy without tearing it down,” in The Washington Post, March 22, 2017.

“America helped create the racist myth of the violent Mexican that Trump is exploiting today,” in Quartz, March 20, 2017.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Trump y sus ideas sobre la ciencia,” in Clarín, March 17, 2017.

With Federico Finchelstein, “La ofensiva de Trump contra la sociedad civil: ¿Qué sigue?,” in Nexos, March 1, 2017.

“The Fog of the Drug War,” in Public Books, February 20, 2017.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Trump en la historia,” in El Diario, November 14, 2016.

With Federico Finchelstein, “In Trump’s America, the Independent Press would Become the Enemy,” in OpenDemocracy, November 1, 2017.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Trump y el populismo machista,” in democraciaAbierta, 3 October 2016. English version here.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Not Just Trump: A Brief History of U.S. Hostility Toward Latin America,” in Dissent, 26 April 2016.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Donald Trump may be showing us the future of right-wing politics,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage, 27 February 2016.

With Federico Finchelstein, “Trump, fascismo y populismo,” Nexos, 1 February 2016.

With Federico Finchelstein, “A Belief System That Once Laid the Groundwork for Fascism,” in The New York Times, December 10, 2015.

“Art, Homicide, and the Anonymous Dead in Latin America: On the Teresa Margolles exhibit at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY,” in Public Seminar, November 30, 2015.

“Los asesinos celebrados,” Nexos 453 (September 2015): 18-20.

“Los excesos del honor: Respuesta a Rodríguez Kuri,” in Horizontal, April 1, 2015.

With Federico Finchelstein, “The World Cup of Politics in Latin America.” Mediapart, July 1, 2014. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/english-club/article/010714/world-cup-politics-latin-america.

“La era dorada de la novela policiaca,” Nexos 434 (February 2014): 68-72.

“Foreword” in I Ask for Justice, Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944, by David Carey Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Review of Pablo Yankelevich, Ráfagas de un exilio: Argentinos en México, 1974-1983 in The Americas 69:2 (Oct. 2012): 259-262.

Review of Amy Chazkel, Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life in Social History 37:3 (2012): 332-334.

Review of Rachel Moore, Forty Miles from the Sea: Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico in American Historical Review 117:2 (April 2012): 576-577.

Review of Sandra Gayol, Honor y duelo en la Argentina moderna, in Hispanic American Historical Review 91 (2011): 177-178.

Review of Brodwyn Fischer, A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, in American Historical Review 115:2 (April 2010): 591-592.

Review of Carlos Illades, Las otras ideas. El primer socialismo en México 1850-1935, in Secuencia: Revista de historia y ciencias sociales, 73 (Jan.-Apr. 2009): 179-185.

Review of James A. Garza, The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City, in Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28:3 (2009): 443-4.

“The Hidden Story—Violence and the Law in Guatemala.” Law and History Review 24:2 (Summer 2006): 427-433.

“Communities and Crime in Mexico City.” Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 6:1 (June 30, 2005). 

“A Historical Perspective on Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexico City.” Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Project on Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico. Internet online. http://repositories.cdlib.org/usmex/prajm/piccato. [May 15, 2003].

“Estadísticas del crimen en México: Series históricas, 1901-2001.” Dataset. Internet online.http://www.columbia.edu/~pp143/estadisticascrimen/EstadisticasSigloXX.htm [2003].

Review of Katherine Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City, inHispanic American Historical Review, 83:1 (February 2003).

Review of Silvia Arrom, Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1872, in American Historical Review 107:4 (October 2002): 1261-1262.

Review of William Schell, Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911, in The Americas, 58:4 (2002): 635-637. 

La política y los intereses extranjeros. Un artículo de Luis Cabrera.” Relaciones, 21:85 (Winter, 2001).

Review of Jennie Purnell, Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacán, inJournal of Social History (Spring 2001): 238-240.

“Las lecciones de Tulyehualco” La Jornada, 10 Aug. 1999, p. 53.

“Castigar la violación. Entender la violación.” La Jornada, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 52.

Review of Michael Johns, Mexico City in the Age of Díaz, in Journal of Latin American Studies 30:2 (May 1998):420-421.

“El discurso sobre la criminalidad en el porfiriato,” Los Universitarios 3:63 (September 1994): 3-7.

“La criminalidad en el porfiriato,” La Jornada Semanal 214 (July 18, 1993): 36-41.

Coordination, special issue Textual 2:19 (November 1990), “A ochenta años de la Revolución Mexicana.”

“Diez años de historiografía de la revolución mexicana,” Textual 1:8 (December 1989): 34-38.

Book reviews in Textual, Nexos, Vuelta, La Jornada Semanal, El Universal, Novedades (Mexico City).