Popular Essays
Newspapers, magazines, and journals
- As the Feds Abdicate Responsibilities, States Should Band Together, Los Angeles Times (Jun. 9, 2025) (with Aziz Huq).
- Why Trump’s Budget Bill is Getting Resistance from Republicans, Boston Globe (May 23, 2025).
- From De-Escalation to Defiance: Judges Must Confront Trump’s Constitutional Overreach, Boston Globe (Apr. 3, 2025).
- From Defense to Offense: Blue States Need a New Playbook for Trump, Boston Globe (Mar. 17, 2025).
- The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States, American Prospect (Oct. 10, 2024) (with David Noll).
- Jan. 6 Was Just a Start. Vigilantes Are Expanding, and Legalizing, Their Attacks, Los Angeles Times (Oct. 8, 2024) (with David Noll).
- The Local Version of Project 2025 Is Already Causing Devastation, Slate, Aug. 26, 2024 (with David Noll).
- Solve the Insulin Pricing Problem by Getting Government into the Business, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8, 2022.
- A Deep State of His Own, Foreign Affairs, Jun. 2024.
- The Supreme Court’s Liberals Should Follow Justice Rehnquist’s Lead—dissent, dissent, dissent, Los Angeles Times, Jul. 9, 2018.
- Law Schools Have a Supreme Court Problem, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul. 18, 2022 (with Aziz Huq)
- If the Supreme Court Lets Other States Copy Texas’s Abortion Law, It’ll Be Chaos, The Washington Post, Jan. 10, 2022
- Why Abortion Access is a Workplace Issue, Time, Dec. 7, 2021 (with S. Mitra Kalita)
- We are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes, New York Times, Sept. 4, 2021 (with David Noll)
- The military deployment to the border is a shameless, and dangerous, stunt, The Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2018 (with Jeffrey H. Smith)
- Tech Giants at the Crossroads: A Modest Proposal, Hoover Institution (Series Paper No. 1809) (Jul. 30, 2018).
- Trump’s Quiet Attack on the Regulatory State is Another Part of His Broader Class War, Slate, Dec. 22, 2017 (with Rajesh Nayak).
- How the American Government Slowly Became a Business, The Guardian, Dec. 18, 2017.
- The War on Federal Employees, The American Prospect, Dec. 11, 2017.
- Should America Also Have a Private Spying Agency?, Newsweek, Dec. 11, 2017.
- Erik Prince’s Proposal to Privatize Intelligence Gathering, Just Security, Dec. 8, 2017.
- How Trump is Dismantling a Pillar of the Administrative State, The Guardian, Nov. 7, 2017.
- Trump and the “Deep State:” The Government Strikes Back, Foreign Affairs, Aug. 14, 2017.
- Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon want to re-privatize the military. That would be a big mistake, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2017.
- What to do in case of a constitutional crisis, CNN, Feb. 2, 2017.
- The folly of Trump’s palace guard, CNN, Dec. 30, 2016.
- Can Trump’s Cabinet makeover work?, CNN, Dec. 17, 2016.
- Businesslike Government, Presidential Power, and the Erosion of the Civil Service, Just Security, Nov. 22, 2016.
- Administrative Checks and Balances in the Trump Administration, Just Security, Nov. 11, 2016.
- The Founders anticipated Trump. We can handle this., Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2016.
Take Care Blog Contributions
- Multidimensional Separation(s) of Powers and Questions of Democratic Erosion, Take Care Blog, Oct. 29, 2018.
- Advancing a Left-Liberal Jurisprudence, Take Care Blog, Oct. 16, 2018.
- Concluding Thoughts on Constitutional Coup, Jan. 18, 2018.
- You’re So Vain… You Probably Think This Book Is About You, Jan. 8, 2018.
- Why Does DHS Need a Corporate Headhunter?, Dec. 18, 2018.
- Uphold the Oath, Sept. 9, 2017.
- Congress’s Personnel Power, Aug. 22, 2017.
- Re-privatizing the Military Would Be a Big Mistake, Jul. 24, 2017.
- First Tragedy, Now Farce, May 15, 2017 (with Frederic Bloom).
- Making Bureaucracy Great Again: Trump’s New Office of Innovation, March 27, 2017.
- American Cognitive Dissonance, March 17, 2017.
Notice & Comment Blog Contributions