A few months into quarantine, on the flatbed of my copier, I found a crude drawing of three characters marching purposefully to the left. It looks like a painting on an ancient Greek vase, though not silhouetted, because then you... Read More ›

I’ve been writing about capital punishment for about 20 years now, which is about 20 years too long. It’s easy enough to poke holes in the ideas that drive the practice itself; it’s expensive, it doesn’t deter crime, it hits... Read More ›

This column is dedicated to the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law class of 2020. I also dedicate it to anyone else who graduated in May, just so no one feels left out. But the aforementioned soon-to-be lawyers have a... Read More ›

White folks: The murder of Rayshard Brooks presents an opportunity for you to ask yourself — To what extent have I been swallowing a needlessly violent cop culture that's been fed to me for my entire life? The Brooks shooting,... Read More ›

The longer I live, the more I’m convinced that this era will be remembered for two things: First, for our newfound capability to instantaneously analyze zettabytes of data to find ready solutions to the common problems of humankind. Second, for... Read More ›

To those of you marching in “Liberate [your state]” gatherings in capitals all over the Midwest, my sympathies are with you. Especially those few who are out there because the government is willing to let the unemployed die on the... Read More ›

In 2019, Artemis, an Aquarius, was born in a bright, sterile box on the ground. Now she exists in the air. She does not yet know what schools teach about our prehistoric ancestors; the ones who first jabbered in discernible... Read More ›

In our civil justice system, 99% of all cases settle before trial. Sometimes for a little money, sometimes for a lot. As such, we lawyers end up doing a lot of negotiating. So much, in fact, that we tend to... Read More ›

In my last column, I discussed the legal victory for the homeless in a case out of Boise, Idaho in which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said that cities couldn’t charge people criminally for living on the streets. Cities... Read More ›

In a case called Boise v. Martin, the U.S. Supreme Court last month refused to hear an appeal of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that cities cannot cite people for sleeping on the street when no shelter space... Read More ›