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Second Terms III: When the White House Holds All the Cards

In Biden's America, Turkeys Get Pardons and Sons Get Sentencing Dates

Second Terms II: No Hex Required

Happy 20th to "National Treasure," a National Treasure

Behind the Essay: Making S'mores Over the Embers of Gender Equality

The Second Term I: Comparing Apples to Orange Hair

My Most Unhinged "Behind the Essay" Yet: Expert Testimony Before the Court of Historical Opinion Re: The Biden Legacy

"Your Most Not Best Friend": A Little Girl's Letter to President JFK

Five Things: The Duncan & Coe History Show. Violent Rhetoric. First Children. "Because it is right." America's Next Top Contractor.

George W. Bush's Silent Surrender: Moral Abdication in Democracy's Twilight

Martians, McPolicies & Mimicry: The Art of Taking Seriously That Which is Patently Absurd

All You Can Eat Fascism

A Gastronomic Peep Show

How a President Should Be: Authenticity as Democracy’s Lifeline

Brave New Discourse

Galapagos Gone Wild: When Utopia Bites Back

When Veep Meets Virtue

Behind the Essay: In Rolling Stone, I worry that yesterday's news is tomorrow's crisis.

The Speech I'd Advise Vice President Harris to Give

American Profiteers Have Always Hated Haiti

The venue isn't a backdrop. It's a character.

From the Office of Fun History Prevention and Control: Stop Calling Abraham Lincoln Gay

Swanson on Swanson, Kennedy on Kennedy, Goodwin on Goodwin (and Hamilton)...

Happy 250th to the Declaration's (Relatively) Chill Pre-Party

Five Things: Brat Summer at the LBJ Library. My Best Tweet. A Racist Argument Against Harris. An Original Guest Essay. Biden at the DNC.

Bad VP Candidates of Yore

Walz > Vance

Five Things

Behind the Essay: In Rolling Stone, I argue Biden must do more than step aside to save his legacy—and the American Experiment

6 Bits and Bobs

In This Emergency, Break Any Glass

Who's Your Daddy [-in-Chief]?

Homer of the Redwoods

The Last of America’s "Slave Tags"

The Care Bears are Unapologetic Interventionists

<Four Things

Archival Mix & the 13th Talk

Behind the Book Review: I wrote about Erik Larson's latest for the NYT

18th c. Snails Dried So 21st c. Snails Could Mucin

Endnotes Are My Kink

"I don't know how many rooms we have."

"A Fine Broth of a Lad, Pelvis and All"

"My delay...is due to involvement in hold-up and murder trials."

I'm Not Really Here

"Carol Doesn't Like to Wear Shoes"

A Brief History of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Young and Restless

Campaign Promises and White House Possibilities

2024: When You Know Both Devils

Comedian-in-Chief

Most Offensive Play at the Super Bowl

A Partisan Hack Misses a Moment—As Does Biden