Breaking: Trump DOJ Goes to First Circuit Seeking to Overturn Preliminary Injunction Blocking USPS Mail-in Voting Rule
KBJ Warns of a “Kafkaesque Nightmare” After a Pro-Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Mail Voting. We’ll Know Soon Enough, Slate, Aug. 24, 2026
Kalshi Says It’s “Voter Suppression” to Ban Betting on Elections. LOL, Slate, July 27, 2026
The Supreme Court’s New 6–3 Elections Case Was Not Nearly As Bad As Expected, Slate, June 30, 2026
The Supreme Court Rejected a Bonkers Idea About Voting by a 5–4 Margin. Next Time We Won’t Be So Lucky, Slate, June 29, 2026
Trump’s latest ‘voter fraud’ claims may backfire on him in the fall, MS NOW, June 8, 2026
Why Is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden?, Slate, June 13, 2026
The Slaying of the Voting Rights Act by the Coward Samuel Alito, Slate, Apr. 30, 2026
The Supreme Court’s Redistricting Ruling Creates a Dangerous Choice for Democrats, MS Now, April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century, Slate, Apr. 29, 2026
Three Ways the Supreme Court Could Upend the Midterm Elections, MS NOW, Apr. 9, 2026
The Actual Danger of Trump’s Vote-by-Mail Executive Order, Slate, Apr. 1, 2026
I Wrote a Book in Support of Trump Nationalizing Elections, Trump Changed My Mind, Slate, Feb. 3, 2026
Trump’s Continued Obsession with 2020 is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site is Not, Slate, Jan. 29, 2026
One Supreme Court Case is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think, Slate, Jan. 28, 2026
Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem, Slate, Nov. 18, 2025 (with Matthew Cooke)
The Supreme Court Just Took a Scary Voting Case That Has Trump Salivating. He Might Be Disappointed, Slate, Nov. 11, 2025
Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire, Slate, Nov. 6, 2025
How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP’s redistricting games, MS NOW Opinion, Oct. 8, 2025
One Person Who Should Not Be in Charge of Elections, N.Y. Times, Aug. 22, 2025 (online version August 20, 2025)
Trump Started a Redistricting War. Only Congress Can Stop It, MSNBC Opinion, August 5, 2025
The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term, Slate, August 4, 2025
Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an Outright Assault on Democracy. Now It’s Here, Slate, May 14, 2025
America Needs More Judges Like Judge Myers, The Atlantic, May 7, 2025
We’re Getting Dangerously Close to a Losing North Carolina Candidate Being Declared the Winner, Slate, Apr. 14, 2025
What Elon Musk Won in Wisconsin, Slate, Apr. 3, 2025
The Ultrarich Have Reshaped Presidential Elections. Here’s Where They’re Looking Next, Slate, Mar. 27, 2025
Trump’s Executive Order on Elections is a Blatant Power Grab, MSNBC Opinion, Mar. 26, 2025
One Possible Explanation for Judge Merchan’s Last-Minute Decision to Sentence Trump, Slate, Jan. 3, 2025 (with Jeremy Stahl)
Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024
Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024
Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024
Elon Musk Might Have Broken the Law Against Bribing Voters. Whoops!, Slate, Oct. 16, 2024
Two Big Questions Raised by Elon Musk’s Trumpian Transformation of X, MSNBC Opinion, Oct. 14, 2024
Why the Supreme Court May Not Decide the 2024 Election After All, Slate, Oct. 10, 2024
Jack Smith’s Big New Jan. 6 Brief is a Major Indictment of the Supreme Court, Slate, Oct. 2, 2024
A Last-Minute Effort to Mess with the 2024 Vote is Underway. It’s Scarier Than Expected, Slate, Sept. 20, 2024
Why It Will Be Harder for Trump to Challenge This Year’s Election, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 29, 2024
Democrats Sure Aren’t Acting as If Trump Beating Biden is an Existential Threat to Democracy, Slate, July 10, 2024
Kamala Harris Replacing Joe Biden is not Antidemocratic, Slate, July 22, 2024
Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy, Slate, July 1, 2024
Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy, Slate, July 1, 2024
The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court, Slate, July 1, 2024
That Big Jan. 6 Supreme Court Decision is Not the Big Win for Trump People Think It Is, Slate, June 28, 2024
A Democratic Super PAC’s New Trump Ad Might Be Borderline Criminal, Slate, June 26, 2024
Why It’s Hard to Muster Even a ‘Meh’ Over Trump’s New York Criminal Trial, Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2024
2016 Election Fraudster ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Might Finally Be About to Face the Music, Slate, April 1, 2024
The Supreme Court Just Delivered a Rare Self-Own for John Roberts, Slate, March 5, 2024
It’s Past Time to Quit Hoping the Courts are Going to Stop Trump, Slate, March 4, 2024 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
The Biggest Supreme Court Case Nobody Seems to Be Talking About, Slate, February 23, 2024
How to Actually Guarantee the Right to Vote: A Six-Point Checklist, The Atlantic, February 13, 2024
A Grand Bargain is Emerging in the Supreme Court’s Trump Cases, But Chaos May be Ahead, Slate, February 8, 2024
Donald Trump is Asking the Supreme Court for the Bush v. Gore Treatment, Slate, February 7, 2024
Trump’s Lawyers Made Some Very Odd Strategic Choices in the Supreme Court Ballot Case, Slate, January 29, 2024
The 2024 Election Will Be Fair. People Still Won’t Believe It, Politico, January 25, 2024
The U.S. Lacks What Every Democracy Needs, New York Times, January 16, 2024
