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Members of the Supreme Court react at the State of the Union 2026 If ever there were doubt that I am a bit of a geek, one need not look further than how I spent my summer vacation, because only a geek would spend a good chunk of July reading Supreme Court opinions and dissents. And if that weren’t enough, I washed it all down by rereading many of the Federalist Papers, authored in defense of the then newly-written Constitution during the ratification period by the brilliant A

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall being repainted. “And truth is like a punch or two. It hits you hard; it knocks you through.” These are words from a song I like by Tired Pony called “Get on the Road.” It’s a song about traveling, physically or emotionally, toward your great love. But for me there’s always been this yearning in it not toward a romantic love but rather toward one’s life destiny. My grandmother also used a road reference to talk about life. She woul

Economic populism is not conservative; it’s inflationary. This week, President Donald Trump floated two insanely bad ideas. The first was once again suggesting the idea of using tariff revenue to issue rebate checks of $2,000. The second was the idea of a 50-year home mortgage.

Perhaps no lyric ever written so succinctly sums up my belief in the idea of America more than these words from that song. Those words cut through me harder than they normally do. We’re losing who we are. The list of things we’ll do is getting longer and the list of things we won’t, shorter. This week, 42 million Americans are facing their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits running dry because of the shutdown.

Once the customer, the American citizen in this case, has grown accustomed to a government service, it is hard, and in many cases unfair, to take it away. And it doesn’t matter if that service provided or right granted is Social Security, Trump-era tax cuts, Affordable Care Act subsidies, or reproductive rights. No one likes having something and then having it taken away.