Some Convenient Tree

Saving Kids’ Lives Isn’t “Woke”

Fifty-one Republican senators will have the blood of children on their hands.

Jul 18 • 

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The Crisis of the Tax and Transfer State

If budgets are moral documents, this one is a covenant with death.

Jul 1 • 

Chance Phillips

“I Don’t Think We Should Have Billionaires.”

What’s more important: a 417 foot yacht or one hundred thousand human lives?

Jul 1 • 

Chance Phillips

June 2025

Municipal Grocery Stores Won’t Have Empty Shelves

Comparisons of Zohran’s proposals to Soviet shortages just show folks don’t care about facts.

Jun 28 • 

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Andrew Jackson, Not William McKinley

The best parallels for Trump’s excesses can still be found in the Jackson administration.

Jun 21 • 

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Johnson Can Still Whip Votes to Kill Kids

The rescissions package the House just passed is an unmitigated disaster.

Jun 13 • 

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Marcantonio and Wagner on the NLRB’s Independence

Everyone should peruse the Congressional Record more often.

Jun 10 • 

Chance Phillips

May 2025

Term Limits Are Still a Bad Idea.

The answer to fears of presidential tyranny has always been a virtuous citizenry.

May 10 • 

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April 2025

Should Anyone Live in Northampton?

“This density housing ideology was designed for large cities not small towns.”

Apr 26 • 

Chance Phillips

Please Save My Parking Lot!

If you want to foster any doubts you may have about democracy, watch a local debate over building multifamily housing.

Apr 18

Young Unemployed Men on Medicaid are (Mostly) Disabled

Where are the “young men who should never be on [Medicaid] at all,” Speaker Johnson?

Apr 13 • 

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March 2025

I Do Not Write Well.

On why playing a solo game of exquisite corpse leads to disjointed essays.

Mar 11 • 

Chance Phillips