- Martin van Buren was born in the United States, but was he a natural-born citizen of the United States?
- sentences to ponder about tokenmaxxing from Zac Hill and Nate Meyvis
- Of course judges are political actors, that's not a bad thing
- thoughts on constitutional hardball and democratic reform
- a little information often tells you a lot
- No, you can't homer off Paul Skenes. But who should take this bet?
- Partisan stag hunts, everywhere
- Notes on influencing politics
- Vote with your feet, or someone else’s
- Markets in everything?
- Notes on having three kids, all with birthdays the same week
- Gerrymandering, VRA, Partisanship, and Federalism
- A Bigger House? Not a Fan
- Eighteen
- Orbán and democracy
- Congressional Approval
- Virginia's Proposed Constitutional Amendment
- Should I quit Twitter and Bluesky?
- Thought experiment: pessimism about liberal democracy
- Transmitting tacit knowledge
- The Joy of College Hockey
- Ben Sasse, Nut picking, and Political discourse tips
- Iran, nuclear brinksmanship, and modern media fragmentation
- Confusing the normal and the exceptional
- Where were you when you found out about [X]?
- A truly bizarre Bridge bid
- On the use of records/CDs as identity signals
- Sportsbooks increasingly look like slot machines, DK Replay edition
- David Sklansky, RIP
- Siena
- Notes on yesterday's alleged talking filibuster
- Notes on the political constraints on presidential warmaking
- More Talking Filibuster: Enter the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Ten thoughts on Iran
- You should invite people over to your home regularly
- SCOTUS, tariffs, IEEPA, and the legislative veto: we're all trying to find the guy who did this
- Washington's Birthday is fine. Presidents' Day is not.
- Minority Rights without Minority Veto
- Straightening you out on "privilege" in the House
- Anatomy of a letter
- Pro-natalism
- the “talking filibuster”
- Snow days in NoVA
- Moltbook
- Czars and White House influence
- Minnesota: policy, personnel, and procedure
- Most policy change isn't done by new law
- Implementation is a huge part of policy!
- Why aren’t the liberal protestors carrying American flags?
- conditional probability
- Immediate reaction to a first reading of the Claude Constitution
- Greenland
- Good sentences to ponder, from Julia Azari and Jonathan Bernstein
- A famous-but-unknown sports blunder
- process vs. outcome
- Too old to be presidenting
- Matchpoints and IMPs, in Bridge and Politics
- Notes on Sheep, the game
- In (partial) defense of ICE
- (52!)/(13!)^4
- Walking
- Legal, wise, and moral are distinct dimensions of any policy
- You Can Just Do Things
- Selling poker wrong
- Predictions for 2026
- Two narrative chapters from my forthcoming book about Oh Hell
- Tips for neighborhood card clubs
- Claude Code
- Presidential Warmaking is a capacity issue too
- 2025 Cardplay audit
- Why It’s Always Messaging
- Young People and Job Market Despair
- Congrats if you've found this