His articles have appeared in many national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly. He is also the author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1987), as well as many other works on entitlements, competitiveness, and U.S. fiscal policy. Currently the senior editor of Florida Trend magazine, a politics and business magazine located in St. Petersburg, Longman has been the recipient of numerous awards for journalism, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors' award for best investigative reporting in 1990. He is currently at work on a book about entitlements and middle-class values.