Op-Ed Archive

NATO’s Nervous New World

Washington Monthly, November 19, 2024

Moldova just rejected Putin and chose a future with the West. What did America just choose?

The Hill, November 6, 2024

Don’t let Trump drag America ‘back to before’

The Hill, November 5, 2024

From President to Convict

Washington Monthly, October 29, 2024

Imagining Trump with a Republican-Controlled Congress and the Roberts Court

Washington Monthly, October 28, 2024

How Kamala Harris Can Finish Strong Against Donald Trump

Washington Monthly, October 18, 2024

The Supreme Court seems inclined to let Richard Glossip be executed

The Hill, October 13, 2024

Has Jack Smith botched the Trump indictments?

The Hill, October 7, 2024

As a New Supreme Court Term Begins, Even Some Conservatives Are Running from Samuel Alito

Washington Monthly, October 7, 2024

Mayor Adams’s Turkish delights

The Hill, October 3, 2024

Harris needs to take off the gloves

The Hill, September 28, 2024

What Is Going on With Georgia’s Board of Elections?

Washington Monthly, September 24, 2024

The supremely partisan court of Chief Justice Roberts

The Hill, September 20, 2024

In last week’s debate, Trump showed his true character

The Hill, September 17, 2024

Harris cleaned Trump’s clock

The Hill, September 11, 2024

A Lot of People Underestimated Harris

Washington Monthly, September 10, 2024

The special counsel’s superseding indictment of Trump likely won’t pass muster

The Hill, September 5, 2024

Trump Sues the Justice Department for $100 Million

The Nation, August 27, 2024

The Hill, August 26, 2024

Why the Supreme Court punted on regulating social media

The Hill, August 20, 2024

Harris rally crowds should not be chanting ‘lock him up’

The Hill, August 13, 2024

Inside the MAGA Bubble, A Child’s Rape Was Ridiculed, Demagogued

Washington Monthly, August 13, 2024

Trump’s Slur of Harris—“Is She Indian or Is She Black?”—Echoes a Creepy Episode From His Past

Washington Monthly, August 7, 2024

Judging Biden’s Supreme Court reform plan

The Hill, August 1, 2024

The Perpetrator and the Prosecutor

Washington Monthly, July 29, 2024

Washington Monthly, July 22, 2024

Here’s how to reform US Supreme Court to counter political bias

London Times, July, 18, 2024

Chief Justice Roberts’s Rule of Disorder: Where the Trump Legal Cases Stand

Washington Monthly, July 17, 2024

Trump, long comfortable with political violence, becomes another victim

The Hill, July 15, 2024

Project 2025, Trump’s forsworn manifesto

The Hill, July 9, 2024

Can the president be officially criminal?

The Hill, July 5, 2024

This Horrible Supreme Court Term

Washington Monthly, July 2, 2024

The Supreme Court has crowned the president king

The Hill, July 2, 2024

Biden lacked oomph but the transcript tells a different tale

The Hill, June 29, 2024

At the Supreme Court, Here Come the Bribes—and a Biden Victory on Disinformation

Washington Monthly, June 27, 2024

Alito is a partisan, radical conservative

The Hill, June 12, 2024

The moral hypocrisy of Trump’s GOP enablers

The Hill, June 10, 2024

Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers

The Hill, June 5, 2024

Will Donald Trump End Up Behind Bars?

Washington Monthly, June 3, 2024

The verdict of history: Trump is guilty

The Hill, May 31, 2024

Trump’s Sordid Case Goes to the Jury

Washington Monthly, May 29, 2024

Who will hang next week, Trump or the jury?

The Hill, May 27, 2024

Justice Alito lets his freak flag fly

The Hill, May 20, 2024

Jack Smith’s Original Sin

Washington Monthly, May 17, 2024

Will Trump take the stand?

The Hill, May 16, 2024

In Cohen vs. Trump, which liar will the jury believe?

The Hill, May 14, 2024

Will the Supreme Court crown King Donald?

The Hill, April 27, 2024

Trump’s moaning about being forced off the campaign trail is nonsense

The Hill, April 24, 2024

Why the Trump Trial is Like a Bullfight

Washington Monthly, April 22, 2024

Picking a jury in Manhattan: The art of the feel

The Hill, April 17, 2024

The trials of O.J. and Trump — a study in parallels

The Hill, April 14, 2024

Trump’s Failed Recusal Gambit

Washington Monthly, April 9. 2024

Judge Merchan vs. Roy Cohn’s protege

The Hill, April 5, 2024

Trump’s attacks on judges and their families threaten us all

The Hill, April 1, 2024

The Roberts Court Really Could Give Trump Blanket Immunity

Washington Monthly, March 26, 2024

The end of the Fani Willis affair

The Hill, March 16, 2024

How the Justice Department’s Trump Prosecution Ran Aground

Washington Monthly, March 12, 2024

Trump wins again in the MAGA Supreme Court

The Hill, March 5, 2024

Is it time for Jack Smith to throw in the towel on prosecuting Trump?

The Hill, March 4, 2024

Has the Supreme Court gone ga-ga or MAGA?

The Hill, February 29, 2024

Why Hur’s Gratuitous Smear of Biden Is a Study in Prosecutorial Abuse

Washington Monthly, February 14, 2024

Rocky Mountain low: Colorado’s lawyer didn’t get it right before the Supreme Court

The Hill, February 9, 2024

Can Andrew Cuomo Really Make a Political Comeback?

Washington Monthly, February 6, 2024

Can Trump delay his legal reckoning past Election Day?

The Hill, February 4, 2024

If the conservative justices actually believe in originalism, they must disqualify Trump

The Hill, February 1, 2024

Trump and Giuliani Can’t Easily Wiggle Out of Defamation Payments

Washington Monthly, January 21, 2024

With Trump’s victory in Iowa, we’re inching toward autocracy

The Hill, January 18, 2024

Trump the Autocrat at the Counsel Table

Washington Monthly, January 13, 2024

Trump’s immunity appeal was both laughable and frightening

The Hill, January 10, 2024

To disqualify or not to disqualify: The Supreme Court confronts the ‘laugh test’

The Hill, January 8, 2024

Will Trump’s disqualification case be Bush v. Gore for 2024?

The Hill, January 2, 2024

Will Trump’s Disqualification Turn on Whether an 1869 Case Was Wrongly Decided?

Washington Monthly, December 27, 2023

Is the Colorado decision a Rocky Mountain high?

The Hill, December 20, 2023

Can Trump Delay His Way Out of Criminal Convictions?

Washington Monthly, December 19, 2023

Do You Oppose Jewish Genocide? ‘It Depends’ Is Not the Right Answer

The Messenger, December 14, 2023

Is a president immune from prosecution? The Supreme Court will decide

The Hill, December 11, 2023

Trump’s ‘similar acts’ unveiled before his election interference trial

The Hill, December 7, 2023

Santos, Menendez, Trump: The ethics mirage in Washington

The Hill, December 4, 2023

Hunter Biden’s Offer to Give Public Testimony — Risky Bluff or Smart Strategy?

The Messenger, November 29, 2023

After the January 6 Attack, How Can Trump Remain on the Ballot?

Washington Monthly, November 20, 2023

Has Trump Gone Even Crazier?

Washington Monthly, November 17, 2023

Trump wants to turn the government into a weapon for personal revenge

The Hill, November 13, 2023

Could Trump’s delay-at-all-costs legal strategy actually work?

The Hill, November 8, 2023

Trump 2.0: Trump’s Justice end game

The Hill, November 6, 2023

A strong libel case against Netflix and Ava Duvernay

The Hill, October 15, 2023

Can Trump conceivably beat the legal clock–and the rap?

The Hill, October 9, 2023

Is the New York fraud suit against Trump biased?

The Hill, October 5, 2023

The removal dilemma: Trump’s fatal choice

The Hill, October 2, 2023

It’s Good to Be a Judge. For Some, a Little Too Good.

Washington Monthly, October 1, 2023

A ‘murder of lawyers’ argues about Trump and the 14th Amendment

The Hill, September 27, 2023

Senator Menendez and the Presumption of Innocence

The Messenger, September 27, 2023

All the president’s henchmen

The Hill, September 17, 2023

Does the Constitution disqualify Trump from running for president?

The Messenger, September 11, 2023

Why Trump must drop out

The Hill, September 5, 2023

Confused about Trump’s legal problems? Read this.

The Hill, August 30, 2023

Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Moment: Can He Keep the Old Gang Together?

The Messenger, August 28, 2023

Can Trump’s co-defendants make a federal case out of the Georgia indictment?

The Hill, August 22, 2023

What Will It Take for GOP to Decide It’s Time to Rid Itself of Donald Trump?

The Messenger, August 18, 2023

Will the Prosecution of Trump Have Terrible Consequences?

Washington Monthly, August 15, 2023

Trump says he has blanket immunity. Not so fast.

The Hill, August 15, 2023

Two-Tiered Justice, or Vindicating the Rule of Law?

The Messenger, August 5, 2023

Yet another Hunter ‘bombshell’ is a dud

The Hill, August 2, 2023

Hunter’s ‘Humpty Dumpty’ Plea Deal: Why It broke and What’s Next

The Messenger, July 29, 2023

What’s in a trial date?

The Hill, July 25, 2023

How Serious is the Authoritarian Threat Here and Abroad?

Washington Monthly, July 24, 2023

“Diet Coke Valet” is the Tail Wagging the Dog in Trump Documents Case

The Messenger, July 15, 2023

How to bring Putin to justice

The Hill, July 10, 2023

Which Will be Tougher: Picking a Trump Trial Date or Proving the Case?

The Messenger, June 28, 2023

“What about Hunter Biden?’ We now have the answer

The Hill, June 21, 2023

Cannon Fodder: The Judge in the Trump Documents Case Sets An Early Trial Date, But That’s Not Happening

Washington Monthly, June 20, 2023

How Trump ended up with Judge Cannon

The Hill, June 16, 2023

How Delay and Recusal Might Save Trump

Washington Monthly, June 12, 2023

Is There Life After Indictment for Donald Trump?

The Messenger, June 9, 2023

Chris Licht’s big mistakes

The Hill, June 7, 2023

What’s keeping Jack Smith?

The Hill, June 5, 2023

Trump’s Next Indictment: Just a Question of ‘What’ and ‘When’

The Messenger, May 26 2023

Durham Report Didn’t Vindicate Trump, and It Missed the True ‘Crime of the Century’

The Messenger, May 21, 2023

Tom Hanks, Donald Trump, and the End of Truth

Washington Monthly, May 20, 2023

Only Republicans Want to Push Us Into Default

The Nation, May 17, 2023

Trump, Santos and our calamitous-ish political landscape

The Hill, May 12, 2023

To testify or not to testify: Trump’s fateful choice

The Hill, May 8, 2023

The latest stench in the Supreme Court

The Hill, May 2, 2023

The Reversal of Trump’s Fortunes

Washington Monthly, April 28, 2023

Reform hope after US justice embroiled in gifts scandal

London Times April 27, 2023

Why is everyone trashing Alvin Bragg?

The Hill April 22, 2023

Clarence Thomas’s Vacation Scandal Shouldn’t Fade From Memory

Washington Monthly, April 13, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan’s New York sideshow: The House Judiciary Committee chairman’s phony factfinding trip to Manhattan

Daily News, April 12, 2023

Trump indictment: The odds are in Alvin Bragg’s favor

The Hill, April 6, 2023

‘Teflon Don’ no more

The Hill, March 31, 2023

What Happens if Trump is Indicted?

Town & Country, March 23, 2023

The first indictment

The Hill, March 20, 2023

Indict Donald Trump over Stormy Daniels payoff? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s dilemma

Daily News, March 15, 2023

Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Solves a Lot of Problems

Washington Monthly, March 13, 2023

Pence to Trump: I Just Can’t Quit You

Washington Monthly, February 28, 2023

George Santos: A grifter in the American tradition

The Hill, February 17, 2023

Prosecutors seek a rat in Trumpville

The Hill, February 6, 2023

Trump’s tall tale of the tape

The Hill, February 1, 2023

Has Merrick Garland Outmaneuvered Himself?

Washington Monthly, January 27, 2023

Was Alec Baldwin reckless?

The Hill, January 23, 2023

Delay Has Already Weakened Garland’s Case Against Trump

Washington Monthly, January 18, 2023

The sell-out and the speech

The Hill, January 16, 2023

Two-Tiered Justice, or Vindicating the Rule of Law?

The Messenger, August 5, 2023

The Biden papers and the Mar-a-Lago documents: Apples and oranges?

The Hill, January 11, 2023

Mr. Santos goes to Washington

The Hill, January 3, 2023

When is it a crime not to remember?

Daily News, January 1, 2023

How Big a Deal Is the January 6th Committee’s Criminal Referral?

Washington Monthly, December 21, 2022

What Will the Manhattan D.A. Do Next with Trump?

Washington Monthly, December 12, 2022

What happened to the investigation into the Dobbs draft leak?

The Hill, December 3, 2022

Will Alvin Bragg get the Trump bragging rights?

The Hill, November 27, 2022

To indict or not to indict, that is the question

The Hill, November 20, 2022

Mr. Attorney General, the time to indict Trump is now

Daily News, November 15, 2022

Do we really need a special counsel to indict Trump?

The Hill, November 6, 2022

A Primer on Trump’s Legal Woes

Washington Monthly, November 2, 2022

The midterms: Between the election and the agenda falls the shadow

The Hill, October 30

Is the Supreme Court about to make another political decision?

The Hill, October 21, 2022

Great Britain’s Conservatives Are Screwing Up The Economy

Washington Monthly, October 6, 2022

Britain’s economic slump: Does the fault lie with Brexit?

The Hill, September 30, 2022

Can Garland Keep Donald Trump From Office?

Washington Monthly, September 27, 2022

Has Garland screwed up the Mar-a-Lago case?

The Hill, September 13, 2022

Indict Trump Over Mar-A-Lago Documents? Don’t Indict? There’s a Third Option

Washington Monthly, September 7, 2022

Is the Mar-a-Lago case doomed?

The Hill, September 7, 2022

Who is more likely to be indicted-Donald Trump or Hunter Biden

The Hill, August 26, 2022

A tribute to a great prosecutor

Daily News, August 23, 2022

Can Trump be disqualified from running for president?

The Hill, August 10, 2022

Abortion: The litigation that will not go away

The Hill, August 4, 2022

The Supreme Court’s Originalist Obsession Continues

Washington Monthly, July 29, 2022

The government calls Pat Cipollone

The Hill, July 28, 2022

There’s more than. enough evidence to charge Trump with seditious conspiracy

Daily News, July 26, 2022

Is New York about to become the Wild West?

The Hill, July 15, 2022

Dark Skies Over Scotus

History News Network, July 3, 2022

The challenge of prosecuting Trump

The Hill, June 20, 2022

Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Conspiracy Is Easy to Prove

History News Network, June 12, 2022

In America, the rule of law remains elusive

Daily News, June 5, 2022

There Oughta Be a Law

History News Network, June 5, 2022

Is the spike in gas prices good for America?

The Hill, May 23, 2022

If the US bans abortion, what rights will be axed next?

The Times (London), May 19, 2022

A draft, a leak and an inflection point in Supreme Court history

The Hill, May 4, 2022

A tale of two would-be prosecutions: Donald Trump and Hunter Biden

Daily News, May 3, 2022

Did trump ‘entrap’ the Jan. 6 rioters?

The Hill, April 15, 2022

On “Smoking Guns”-Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)

History Network News, April 12, 2022

Will Donald Trump Beat the Rap after all?

Daily News, April 3, 2022

Four GOP senators who should go back to law school

The Hill, March 25, 2022

Decoding Partisan Declarations of What Makes a “Good Judge”

History News Network, March 23, 2022

Is Merrick Garland finally ready to indict Donald Trump?

The Hill, March 15, 2022

The case against Donald Trump in Manhattan

Daily News, March 1, 2022

Ahmaud Arbery can begin to ‘rest in power’

The Hill, February 23, 2022

Is it time to recall the recall?

The Hill, February 4, 2022

Prince Andrew easily could have won his bid to get the suit against him tossed

Washington Post, January 20, 2022

Has the Supreme Court lost its compass?

The Hill, January 4, 2022

The gathering coup: 2022 and the years that follow will further test our democracy

Daily News, January 3, 2022

The punctuated sentence of Derek Chauvin

The Hill, June 27, 2021

What’s Happened to Merrick Garland

The Hill, June 16, 2021

COVID vaccine passports pose more questions than answers

The Hill, June 7, 2021

How long will Trump remain immune?

The Hill, May 28, 2021

The curious case of the COVID-19 origin

The Hill, May 17, 2021

Biden and ghost guns

The Hill, May 11, 2021

Will we finance Biden’s spending with confiscatory taxes?

The Hill, April 28, 2021

Is the antidote to bad speech more speech or more regulation?

The Hill, April 19, 2021

The knives are out for Cuomo

New York Daily News, April 9, 2021

Can Derek Chauvin possibly be acquitted?

The Hill, March 31, 2021

Will diplomacy work with Iran?

The Hill, March 24, 2021

Politicization of the Judiciary

History News Network, March 1, 2021

When a Trial is Not a Trial

Bill Moyers, February 16, 2021

The Senate’s Sad Signal

The Hill, January 28, 2021

Were Trump’s Pardons Even Legal?

History News Network, January 17, 2021

Incitement and the First Amendment

Bill Moyers, January 12, 2021

The Putsch of January 6, 2021

Bill Moyers, January 8, 2021

The Abominable No-Men

Bill Moyers, January 5, 2021

Death Is Different
The Hill, December 24, 2020

To Be or Not To Be a Republican
History News Network, December 21, 2020

Trump’s Last Gasp
The Hill, December 13, 2020

I Beg Your Pardon
Bill Moyers, November 25, 2020

Where’s My Bill Barr?
Bill Moyers, November 16, 2020

A transition in disarray
The Hill, November 11, 2020

Beyond Court Packing: The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political
Time, November 2, 2020

A supremely partisan judge for a supremely partisan court
Tortoise, October 28, 2020

Could Justice Amy Conan Barrett deliver the election to Trump?
The Hill, October 26, 2020

Trump should try a little empathy
The Hill, October 11, 2020

In Memoriam: RBG
New York Post, September 19, 2020

The Strange Case of Carroll v. Trump — An Adventure in Wonderland
Bill Moyers, September 11, 2020

The Headless Horseman: William Barr and the Attorney General
History News Network, September 7, 2020

Drop-Box Voting Is the Election Reform the U.S. Needs Now
Bloomberg, August 26, 2020

The Election-Go-Round: Democracy in Peril
Bill Moyers, August 7, 2020

The Supreme Court’s Rightward Lurch
The Nation, July 10, 2018

Not Even Trump Can Break the Justice Department
Time, July 12, 2017

A Tribute to Frank Deford
Huffington Post, May 30, 2017

The Man Who First Fueled Donald Trump’s Paranoid Politics
Time, April 14, 2017

Who Is Neil Gorsuch?
Prospect (London), February 2, 2017

Trump’s Dance with the Law
Counsel, January , 2017

What Will the Supreme Court Look Like in a Donald Trump Presidency?
The Nation, November 11, 2016

What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Supreme Court?
Prospect (London), November 11, 2016

How Trump Will Shape the US Supreme Court
London Times, November 10, 2016

In the Wake of a Trump Triumph, Will the Supreme Court Still Favour the Underdog
The Jewish Chronicle (London), November 4, 2016

America’s Top Court Is Becoming Dangerously Political
London Times, October 26, 2016

Justice Barack Obama?
Prospect (London), October 13, 2016

The Only Thing Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did Wrong Was Apologize
The Nation, July 15, 2016

Do Judges Make or Find the Law?
Huffington Post, May 9, 2016

Killing Woodrow Wilson: The Battle of Princeton
Huffington Post, December 4, 2015

The Death Penalty Cases Before the Supreme Court Are a Prelude to a Legal Assault on the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
The Nation, June 16, 2015

Does Religious Freedom Trump Other Constitutional Rights?
Huffington Post, April 27, 2015

A Matter of Ethics
Forbes, February 4, 2015

Obama Wasn’t There
Forbes, January 16, 2015

Question From China: How Do American Lawyers Bribe U.S. Judges?
Forbes, November 11, 2014

The Business of Sex: Have We Come to a New Normal?
Forbes, September 5, 2014

If John Gotti Was The ‘Teflon Don’, Then Roy Cohn Was The ‘Teflon Rogue’
CNN, May 8, 2014

Pistorius’ Cross Examination
Forbes, July 8, 2014

Pistorious trial in the U.S.?
The Daily Beast, May 5, 2014

Genovese, Costello And Anastasia: The Decline And Fall Of The American Mafia
Forbes, April 22, 2014

Getting at the Truth? Cross-examination is the Crowning Glory of Our Legal System
Forbes, February 11, 2014

How a Seasoned Litigator Became a Talk Show Host
Forbes, August 4, 2013

Do We Achieve Anything By Arming the Syrian Rebels?
Forbes, June 19, 2013

The Boston Bombers: Follow the Money
World Policy Journal, April 23, 2013

The Obama-Erdogan Conference: Let Us Preach What We Practice
Forbes, April 16, 2013

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): A Personal Encounter
Forbes, April 8, 2013

Aaron Swartz’ Suicide Forces Hard Questions About the Criminal Justice System
Forbes, March 29, 2013

The Strange Case of Oscar Pistorius
Forbes, February 27, 2013

Gay Marriage Debate Will Bring Ideological War Between Chief Justice Roberts and Obama to the Forefront
Forbes, January 24, 2013

True Sparrows or Fake Eagles
Forbes, January 19, 2013

The Only Way to Disarm Is to Disarm
Forbes, January 3, 2013

The End Is At Hand
Forbes, December 21, 2012

Does A Military Trial for KSM Make any Sense?
Forbes, December 2, 2012

Holder v. Congress: Political Firefight or Legal Contempt
Forbes, June 22, 201

Erdogan’s Turkish Spring: Crosscurrents in the Bosphorus
Forbes, June 4, 2012

Why Israel Will Attack Iran
Forbes, April6, 2012

The Year of Uncertainty
Forbes, December 28, 2011

Should There Be a Statute of Limitations for Presidential Candidates?
Forbes, November 10, 2011

The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Affair: To Proceed or Not to Proceed
Forbes, August 5, 2011

Spinning the Law: Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion
Forbes, February 4, 2011

Sleeping With The Fishes
Forbes, July 21, 2010

Court Rules On ‘Honest Services’ Fraud
Forbes, June 25, 2010

Order In The Court
Forbes, June 8, 2010
The Lost Art Of Honest Services
Forbes, May 25, 2010

Cyberwar or surreality?
Washington Times, May 3, 2010

Abdicating on a ‘cyber czar’?
Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2009

Solving The Health Care Quagmire
Forbes, August 20, 2009

On the brink of failure
Washington Times, August 12, 2009

Stolen e-mail evidence?
Washington Times, July 9, 2009

The longest year
Washington Times, January 1, 2009

A Real Memo For The President-Elect
Forbes, June 03, 2008

Close Guantanamo–And Then What?
Forbes, April 29, 2008

Keeping Your Child From Internet Drugs
Forbes, April 17, 2008

Keeping The Internet Drug-Free
Forbes, April 17, 2008

The Fragile State Of Internet Freedom
Forbes, February 29, 2008

In Pictures: The Dark Side Of The Internet
Forbes, February 29, 2008

The Rule Of Law?
Forbes, January 7, 2008

How To Spy On People
Forbes, November 28, 2007

Taking down terrorist Web sites
Washington Times, October 29, 2007

Senator Craig’s Strange Bedfellow
Forbes, September 20, 2007

Berlin: A Crossroads Of The New Europe
Forbes, September13, 2007

Quest for identity in Egypt
Washington Times, February 18, 2007

Digital cops and robbers?
Washington Times, November 25, 2006

Terrorism in the digital age
Washington Times, December 5, 2005

Blackstone on Gutbucket
The Reporter, October 6, 1966