The Supreme Court, the federal judiciary, constitutional law, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
The Republic
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Jul 2, 2026
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4 min read
Trump didn't invent America's darkest impulses. He just helped millions of Americans feel they no longer had to hide them.
May 20, 2026
3 min read
They are not hiding it. They are not ashamed of it. They want us to see it and accommodate ourselves to the new order of things.
May 4, 2026
It's worse than you think. A lot worse.
Apr 20, 2026
This is what a captured Court looks like.
Courts
Apr 1, 2026
Many of the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment would have been non-citizens under Trump's theory of it. Nobody challenged them.
Mar 25, 2026
6 min read
A fight over when ballots are counted reveals something more troubling: a Court that no longer seems to trust the people it serves.
The Sunday Poem
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Mar 22, 2026
5 min read
Farewell to an American patriot
Mar 16, 2026
Hard censorship threatens. Soft censorship purchases. War is accelerating both.