Donald Trump They’re So Back: A few predictions for the first year of the second Trump government Annual predictions are weak and boring. And I never claimed to be original, so here are mine. Really, like everyone else who does these, I’m looking for an outlet to catalogue the things I’ll be paying close attention to in the new year, a yardstick to measure against
Eight Amendment WNTTAK 1: A weak attempt at weakening the Eighth Amendment Here's a hypothetical: having decided that you are a bad person, I throw you into a pit full of venomous snakes. I didn't put the snakes there—I have no idea how they got there—but I knew about the snakes when I threw you in
Politics What I'm reading in the aftermath For almost two years now, I’ve been planning and failing to get back into some sort of personal writing practice. On Thursday—two days after Americans decided to reelect Donald Trump—I decided that the best thing I could do for myself was start that writing practice by putting
