Sarah Chayes

My head is exploding.

Evan Vucci for AP via The New York Times What more to say?

And so we enter a new era, likely to last several decades at least.

(Or, "It's Official: The Supreme Court Ignores Its Own Precedent") I promised a post on the Supreme Court's recent decision granting...

I can't claim credit for the following post; it's the brainchild of a friend of mine, the most brilliant analyst of democracy -- and what...

As I was halfway through writing this essay, the Supreme Court decision came down granting Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for...

California Senator Diane Feinstein, may she finally rest, died in office on September 28.

Addendum appended 21 August, 2023 In these days of double-standards and the blurring of lines — between true and not true, right and...

“Russia has dealt another blow to the world’s most vulnerable,” U.S.

by Lisa Hupp, courtesy, U.S.

(Photo by Anne Way Bernard, courtesy of Appalachian Voices) So.

Monotropa uniflora ("Ghost Pipe") does not photosynthesize.

Updated 16 May, 2023 Did you hear about the Supreme Court decision?

Jubilation on the left side of the American political spectrum has hardly worn off in the wake of the midterm elections.

So.

How to count the questions raised by the gob-smacking moment unfolding around us?

Updated 27 May, 2022 First, a word on guns.

A recent post by the brilliant Martin Shaw got me thinking about my old sparring partner, Midas.

(If NATO Provides Safe-Havens For Its Fighters) When Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on February 24, its people astonished the world...

Months after the United States lost the longest war it ever fought — well before the shocking outbreak of hostilities in Europe displaced...