- America In Our Time: From World War II to Nixon What Happened and Why (2006)
- More Equal Than Others: America From Nixon to the New Century (1999)
- The Myth of American Democracy (2009)
- America's War in Afghanistan (2010)
- The World Turned Upside Down: American Empire and the Middle East (2011)
- All Things Are Possible: The Assault on Reality (2015)
- The Atlantic: The Biography of an Ocean (2016)
- A Great Adventure: The Ascent of John F Kennedy and the Making of America (2018)
- China’s Future: What Everyone Needs to Know (2021)
Essays and articles:
- "The End of the American Century" (2002)
- "The Trouble with America" (2003)
- "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire" (2004)
- "The New Imperialism" (2005)
- "The Future of Democracy" (2007)
- "The Crisis of American Democracy" (2008)
- "The Tea Party and the Future of American Politics" (2010)
- "The Arab Spring and the New Middle East" (2011)
- "The Rise of China and the Future of the World" (2012)
- "The Future of American Power" (2013)