Hi friends. Inspired by Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein’s incredible video series about the Seattle Mariners, I want to discuss a way that the Mariners altered the course of a World Series title, one that Jon and Alex are unlikely to include in their series. As a preliminary matter: If you are interested in the…

Yes, the Republicans are worse. Yes, they’re actively trying to cut us out of society, whether it be by disenfranchisement, cutting healthcare, or just plowing ahead with dismantling the social/economic safety net.   Yes, 45 is bad, and it’s easy to sell short just how many ways this administration’s policies are evil. It feels like…

Hi friends. Let’s talk about Georgia. New allegations have just surfaced about Kelly Loeffler’s financial activity during the time that she had access to nonpublic information about COVID-19. They include sales of $18.7 million in shares of her husband’s company as well as purchases of $200,000 of stock in a COVID-19 equipment supplier while she…

For forty years, the Republican Party establishment has aimed to do one thing: raid the coffers of the American people for the benefit of themselves and their donors. It’s been hard to call it that, though. The top tax bracket hasn’t been above 40% since 1987 (coincidentally, the year that saw the worst trading day…

Hey, let’s talk about something unrelated to the virus for a second. If you don’t know who Marie Newman is, this is for you. Some elections went forward yesterday as scheduled. (People are having good conversations about the fact that that was probably unwise, and the fact that vote by mail should be the norm…

“I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain” This is not a postmortem of Bernie Sanders’s campaign. After Super Tuesday, I concluded that the only path for Bernie Sanders to win would be for Joe Biden to faceplant vigorously at the next debate, which hasn’t happened yet….

As we prepare to stare into the mouth of the (91% white) beast, I continue to have conversations with progressive people who have major qualms with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or both. Not just surface-level qualms, either, but deep substantive concerns with major parts of their record or their proposals. I’ve had a number of…

I don’t have much to say about the horse-race political stuff that’s happened over the last couple of weeks. I’m still, at this point, going to vote for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders this spring, unless somehow neither of them are in the race by March. Right now, I’m leaning increasingly toward the latter, despite…

I saw Just Mercy yesterday, and it affected me, as I expected. Not just because I’m a public defender. Not just because I was fortunate enough to hear Bryan Stevenson speak as I was beginning law school, or because I was then fortunate enough to have him as a professor. And oddly, perhaps not because…