


No state makes more of its enlightened stance on racial justice than California. But few states do worse.

Each potential candidate felt the need to comment in the war’s first 24 hours. But what to say? Or, more specifically, how, precisely, to oppose President Donald Trump?

Lawmakers from Sanders to Mark Kelly offer mixed feelings on Trump’s action and killing of Iranian supreme leader

Over at The Dispatch, I have a new piece on the originalist case for birthright citizenship. President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to strip natural-born citizenship status from children born of undocumented aliens and temporary aliens is facing an uphill climb before the Supreme Court on April 1. The uncertainly about its fate is not […]

I have an opening for a research assistant at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) for a year starting June or thereabouts. This is a temporary position with a starting hourly rate of $23.59 (unfortunately, with no benefits, since it is classified as temporary). I’d be glad to have someone in the Stanford area who will come […]

An excerpt from Judge Andrew Carter’s opinion Friday in Shaykhoun v. Daily Mail (S.D.N.Y.): Sonya Shaykhoun (“Plaintiff”) is a licensed New York attorney with 21 years of experience, including expertise in intellectual property licensing, proceeding pro se in this action…. On May 17, 2023, Plaintiff posted a “Tweet” on X.com regarding an unlicensed vendor in […]

The world is undoubtedly a better place after the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and roughly 40 of his murderous colleagues by joint Israeli and American military strikes. Iran’s Islamist regime has slaughtered its own people while encouraging terrorism around the world for decades. But those strikes carry serious risks and costs. […]