Finding Gravity

I grew up in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, reading the Syracuse Post-Standard, Auburn Citizen, and Ithaca Journal.

I don’t like writing about Democratic primaries, and I don’t like writing about people I know.

In line before the first of two Bruce Springsteen concerts in San Sebastián, Spain last summer a gentleman with whom I had been chatting asked where I was from.

This is a screenshot-heavy post.

Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regime’s lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldn’t know that from reading two recent New York Times articles that center the views of Republicans rather than…

It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies Here’s a new song from Bruce Springsteen, written on Saturday after masked government agents pinned Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back: (Here is a…

Donald Trump’s ICE killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an American citizen who worked as an ICU nurse, in Minneapolis Saturday morning.

If you give a gun, a badge, and impunity to the kind of people who want a gun, a badge, and impunity, some of them will do very bad things.

Today’s deluge of Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein revelations reminded me of a January 1994 Washington Post editorial in which the Post called for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate a land deal on which the Clintons had lost money more…

I spent the 2000 presidential election working as an opposition researcher at the Democratic National Committee.

On Saturday, somewhere in the neighborhood of seven million Americans[1] participated in protests against their authoritarian government that were unprecedented in American history.

This week’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Louisiana v Callais, which the court’s MAGA justices appear poised to use to eviscerate what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, got me thinking about Chief Justice John Roberts’ confirmation hearings in 2005 and a…

When I relaunched this newsletter over the summer, I planned to use it more frequently.

Saturday morning, Donald Trump declared "war" on an American city governed by his political opposition.

Donald Trump’s military assault on America’s cities has been denounced by legal and national security experts as an “authoritarian power grab” that is “dangerous for liberty” and “an absolute seizing control of our country through our own military used ag…