Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes to discuss LGBT rights in the wake of President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage.

Sirota’s Salon.com essay on how physical thank-you notes are outdated became a segment on American Public Media’s “The Story.”

Sirota appeared on the premiere of the Current TV prime time show “The Young Turks” to discuss the state of the Republican presidential nomination fight.

Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s new weekend show “Up with Chris Hayes” to discuss the Arab Spring, the end of the Iraq War and the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

On the 25th anniversary of the release of “Top Gun,” Sirota published an article in the Sunday Washington Post looking at how the Pentagon effectively subsidizes pro-war propaganda. The piece draws on Sirota’s book, “Back to Our Future.”

USA Today published a front-page profile of Sirota’s new book Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now. The piece included a sidebar written by Sirota and a video about the book.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hailed Back to Our Future in a prime-time television interview with Sirota. She said the book “rang true to me on just about every single page” and called the book “a real accomplishment.”