Cabinet Fantasies and the ICE Dragnet Good morning! Or rather, good spectacle. The day began as so many now do: Donald Trump before cameras, inside a room recently redecorated to his tastes, congratulating himself for the achievement of having arrived. What was billed...
A Modest Proposal for Ignoring Them It is a marvel of modern governance that the most dangerous thing an American can do is hold a phone the wrong way. In Minneapolis, we have learned that filming federal agents, assisting a fallen stranger, and asking “Are you okay?”...
We now live in a nation where liberty is endlessly invoked, rarely practiced, and ceremonially buried with honors when it becomes inconvenient. We are told, with admirable regularity, that certain truths are self-evident. This is fortunate, because if they required...
The boat is taking on water. Fast. This, we are assured, is just politics. The boat is taking on water. Fast. This much is evident to anyone with eyes, ankles, or a functioning relationship with gravity. The lower decks are already knee-deep, the engines are coughing...
This is not satire . . . The United States is accurately described as a constitutional federal republic, meaning it’s a system where citizens elect representatives to make laws, but these representatives and the government itself are bound by a supreme...
The ICE Machine Will Not Stop Without A Reduction of Rewards Those perplexed by the tireless forward motion of ICE—despite outrage, funerals, and the sort of historical comparisons that usually prompt solemn museum exhibits—have misdiagnosed the problem. The obstacle... 
