The Art of the Bureaucratic Slow Roll

We’re about to witness some epic bureaucratic slow roll. Last week, the Outgoing Administration freaked out a lot of people by firing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and a couple of other High-Ranking Pentagon Mucky Mucks. [Editor’s Note: There are a LOT of...

The Perversity of US News Rankings

We Americans love rankings—sports standings, 12 Best Places for Hawaiian Poke. You name it, we rank it. Of course, these are the essential ingredients in clickbait, too. Let’s all fess up—no living human has ever been able to resist “15 Child Actors and What They’re...

Legal Fictions

Before I took up an honest living—fiction writer—I worked as a lawyer. I’ve been several flavors of lawyer: criminal prosecutor, government attorney, company counsel, rule of law expert in some exotic places, and an assistant dean at a NYC law school. (I still do a...

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