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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was: the Department of Agriculture made school meals free […]

September 7, 2023

The spring before I matriculated, I took the Amtrak down to New Haven for a funeral. The day before the service, I had dinner in […]

September 1, 2023

The key question in Students for Fair Admissions’ lawsuits against the University of North Carolina and Harvard College was whether their affirmative action policies constituted unlawful racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. On June 29, the justices ruled 6-3 that both universities’ policies do, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. On that question, the Court’s majority was right.

July 18, 2023

Joe Biden is, officially, running for re-election. (Disclosure: I supported Biden for the Democratic nomination when he announced four years ago; I plan to vote […]

April 28, 2023

On April 7, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas issued a ruling striking down the FDA’s authorization of mifepristone, a drug used for medication […]

April 18, 2023

Donald J. Trump is going to be indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan, per The New York Times. The charges? That the former president […]

April 2, 2023

Louis Brandeis said that the states were the laboratories of democracy. Wisconsin is anything but; it can, at best, be described as a “flawed democracy.” […]

March 29, 2023

As we get closer to the summer, you’re probably going to hear more and more about the fight to raise the debt ceiling in the […]

March 5, 2023

Ron DeSantis wants to run for president; if press reports are to be believed, he’ll announce his bid sometime this spring, after the Florida legislative […]

February 16, 2023

Across the street from my home in Cambridge is a branch of the public library bearing a large mural of Tip O’Neill. On the lower […]

January 31, 2023

Going into Tuesday’s midterm elections, the consensus among pundits was that Democrats would get washed away by a red tsunami. The question was not whether […]

November 15, 2022