I have problems with the Qatar plane deal.

Reining in the corruption is not hopeless.

How to save American film and make a real statement with prison islands.

Thoughts on American exceptionalism.

An impressionistic painting.

There is a point at which ignorant dilettantism becomes a form of cruelty. Trump passed it long ago in Ukraine.

Why the Harvard case matters.

What law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in Salvadoran prisons?

The stakes in the El Salvador deportation cases.

A meditation on Judge Boasberg’s contempt ruling in increasingly run-on sentences.

Trump and Bukele play three-card monte with a detainee.

Why would anyone grant these people a presumption of regularity?

Can the government win a case by losing the plaintiff?

“To the extent that it's contrary to things that are true, they would be false.”

All you have to do is close your eyes.

 Don’t call it repression.

The plate tectonics of the current legal and political fights.

The Atlantic can’t be more Catholic than the Pope on classified material.

Trump plays the authoritarian card differently from how analysts expected.

A guide for the lawless.