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I took my kids to Cleveland for the Orioles-Indians game on Friday night. They’re not really big baseball fans, but they like going to games. Partially because it’s fun and there’s junk food, but mostly because it provides them a new venue for the sort of savage and absurdist commentary for which Gen-Z kids are […]

Last year I spent a lot of time talking about Ohio’s 12th district. I wrote about how I thought it was possible for a Democrat to win it  and I proceeded to lay out a multipart road map of how, in my view, it could be done.  This despite the fact that the district is sharply gerrymandered to favor […]

Last year I wrote a multi-part series about how, in my view, it was very, very possible for a Democrat to win my district, the Ohio 12th Congressional district. This despite the fact that the district is sharply gerrymandered to favor Republicans. This despite the fact that the Republican routinely carried two-thirds of the vote. […]

Donald Trump is in the United Kingdom today and The Scotsman, Scotland’s national newspaper, published an editorial about him. There is not a single new piece of information in it, but it’s nonetheless a must-read. Primarily because there is not a single new piece of information in it: None of this is news to anyone, […]

Justice Kennedy is retiring, and he’s going to be replaced by a much younger, more conservative justice who will do a great deal of damage in the very long time he serves on the bench. There’s no way to sugarcoat that. Not at all. I will, however, make a few observations that you can give […]

With very few exceptions — very notable exceptions, yes, which are not to be diminished but which skew more recently in our memory — the Supreme Court has, historically, stood more often against progress than for it. We have been fortunate that that has not been the case in many important instances, but it is […]

  Tyranny does not arrive on our doorstep, fully formed, proclaiming itself as such. Evil does not wear a black hood and cape, monologuing about “the true power of darkness!” Such things come in increments. In drips and drabs, each drab appearing unremarkable due to its apparent innocuousness and each drip as normal and conventional, […]

For several years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy smeared anyone and everyone he could while conducting his hunt for communist sympathizers in the United States government. As he did so — destroying lives and careers in the process — he was afforded a level of respect and deference all Senators receive. His work, however […]

The news that Trump is ordering an end to family separations at the border is good. It’s a limited act — he’s still enforcing an unconscionable “zero tolerance” policy against people seeking asylum and will now likely seek merely to prosecute and incarcerate children with their parents — but it is a step back from […]

We are ripping children from the arms of their parents and throwing them into cages. This is not hyperbole. It is literally happening. Border patrol agents are mocking the children as they scream for their mothers and fathers.  Anyone attempting to rationalize what we are doing to these children at the border — or engaging […]