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Ten Essays for Right Now

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America First. (Some Incineration May Apply)

They're scared of our joy

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Iran Says LA and San Diego Much Lower on Their List Than Mar-a-Lago

When winning over voters sounds like too much work, why not break into song? My latest musical satire pairs a smooth 1950s crooner number wi

Corruption is so rampant in the Trump administration that the temptation is to treat it as normal. It's not.

But he shouldn’t.

During a rally in Nebraska, Trump gawked at Harp before taking the stage to remind everyone why he might be experiencing record unpopularity

Trump said letting Iran take out Los Angeles or San Diego would be a small price to pay

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The Russian oligarch who helped bankroll Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebration says the president’s eldest son has paid back the money.

Justice Alito‘s book purports to answer the Court’s critics—by rebutting a caricature and ignoring the ways in which his own behavior contradicts his claims.

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As the Supreme Court begins its new term, the Justices have made public their decision to decline to hear a number of cases lawyers had been eagerly awaiting.

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Will Saletan lays out the case against Donald Trump that Jack Smith never got to present at trial.

In 1973, a school district in Drake, North Dakota didn’t just remove Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five—32 copies were burned in the school furnace.

How many taxpayer-funded "public service announcements" does Trump plan to air before the midterms?

@RachelBitecofer: No, Motherfuckers, Both Parties Are Not the Same Tom Morello sees the fascist threat but wouldn’t vote for Harris. That contradiction exposes the fatal flaw in the left’s “both parti...

Forceful in its prose, both mournful and mocking in tone, “Chicago: City on the Make” started as an essay for the New York-based travel magazine Holiday.

With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments.

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A new semi-regular column of essays on law and computation, not quite ready for Substack

The disappearing middle of American politics—and the dangerous fiction that nothing separates Democrats from Republicans.

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As the October 2026 Term begins, it's worth taking a moment to highlight the *real* final statistics for the Court’s output during the October 2025 Term.

The past week reveals another area in which the Trump administration’s efforts collapse under the weight of contradictions.

Paris manages. London manages. Somehow Chicago can’t provide the tourists it covets with relief, other than alleys.

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