Aikin and me in the latest issue of *Informal Logic*, on the Curative Fallacy informallogic.ca/index.php/in...

Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16

One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives

Here’s a direct gift link to my @slate.com piece: slate.com/news-and-pol...

From @dsallentess.bsky.social Harvard Professor Danielle Allen (I am Andrew from Ohio-an avid follower) Please read her book “Our Declaration” #Democracy #Renovation #Rebuild #Reform #Rinse #Repeat !! DAILY !! for a more perfect union <gift article> #BookSky www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Before 1776, no one thought people could govern themselves at nation-scale. The Founders' radical idea: government exists to foster our rights, not rule us. 56 people risked death to sign it. I had a lot of fun talking to Mo Rocca about this on CBS Sunday Morning: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-fou...

Your periodic reminder that nationalism (as such) is not the problem. It’s the content of it.

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us-companies comments #semafor.com

"Texas is... so far the only state to mandate the reading of direct religious texts. Students will analyze around a dozen Bible passages and stories, from David and Goliath in second grade to the Book of Job in tenth grade." Super...

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

A federal judge today ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to release additional unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records or explain by July 2 why it can't.

4/4 Court's order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Court's memorandum opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

3/ Corresponding to the five categories, Judge Sullivan states it is "ORDERED that by no later than July 2, 2026, the Attorney General shall" produce the documents or show cause.

"Katie Phang ... brings this action against Todd Blanche ... claiming that he has improperly withheld information and failed to comply with other requirements in violation of the Epstein Act." "[T]he Court GRANTS Ms. Phang’s motion." 1/🧵

For @forward.com, I wrote about how Israel was so salient in NY's Democratic primaries in part because staunch Israel supporters made it so forward.com/opinion/8335...

For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about antisemitism, the American political right, and Ben Shapiro www.vanityfair.com/story/ben-sh...

I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

Good to see this reversal of Secretary Hegseth's ill-fated policy: "The Army, Navy and Air Force are once again requiring flu shots for basic trainees." abcnews.com/Health/milit...

I wrote an essay in the WSJ USA250 series - “How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age” www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse... It's also available here as a free PDF papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

Historian here, you want to celebrate the 250th without dealing with the hot mess at DC? Check out a new museum dedicated to a founder of the second American Republic, Thaddeus Stevens and his partner Lydia Hamilton Smith in Lancaster PA. I am a talking head.

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

A simpler version of my article :). www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

NEW searchable database: Immigration Habeas Tracker: Government Obstruction, Judicial Trust, and Accountability Over 800 cases where courts find government violating orders, giving false information, evading habeas review. Plus: tracks court contempt hearings, sanctions on officials, and more.

I know it’s just an advanced reader copy, but look at this beauty!! Thank you so much for sending, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social! (Sonya’s the one to ask if you’re looking for one!)

The Justice Department quietly deleted thousands of press releases about the Jan. 6 insurrection So Lawfare restored them: more than 5,700 pages recovered and publicly archived. @tylermcbrien.com, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org explain how.

I think Obama's speech is worth reading as a rebuttal to JD Vance's recent attacks on creedal nationalism. Vance misstates what creedal nationalists actually believe. Obama offers a corrective. (h/t @jamellebouie.net) newrepublic.com/article/2121...

My article is finally up on Urban Affairs Review. It's about conducting ethnographies, interviews and focus groups during a time of crisis. I talk about expectations between the researcher and participants, and rethinking what hard to reach means during a crisis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

I couldn't access the paper to evaluate it, but the results reported in the abstract are consistent with what I and professor-friends have observed on the ground: students who use AI to "help" with out-of-class assignments bomb in-class exams. Also unsurprising that AI hit is greatest for boys.

Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Today I am moved by power of this example of how Black people hold our own history. Without museums. W/o official declarations or monuments. In community. Happy Juneteenth!

It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has a new Legacy experience series of galleries that opened to the public last month. civilrightsmuseum.org/the-legacy-e...

Joyce Beatty is why the name came off the Kennedy Center. Her focus and tenacity... It should escape no one that she's also a Black woman.

Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology: results of a new large-sample survey of US voters, by @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.

Since the start of his tenure as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth has sought to delegitimize the accomplishments—and the very presence—of Black people in the military, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes.

OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

The commencement speech by @sifill.bsky.social at UC Berkeley Law provides important context behind the Fourteen Amendment and inspiring words to the graduates for the future of our democracy. youtu.be/MHuGJ66o4hE?...