I wrote about the SCOTUS decision in Trump v Barbara—just 5-4 on what the majority rightly called “the promise” of birthright citizenship in the Constitution. Trump, alarmingly, is not alone in trying to break that promise—and he never has been. @newyorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

The Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship—but the Fight May Not Be Over newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

I wrote about Jill Biden’s new, wearying book for @NewYorker

Some background in here on Josh Turek, who just won the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Iowa—an open GOP-held seat that now seems to be in play. @newyorker newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Post-Birthright Citizenship oral arguments, a prospect Kavanaugh raised—Trump’s E.O. is thrown out, but on statutory, not constitutional grounds—deserves more attention. Not the likeliest outcome, maybe, but one that would unsettle what had been seen as a settled right.

“It’s a new world; it’s the same Constitution”—Chief Justice Roberts (reassuringly) in the Birthright Citizenship oral arguments

Trump, as a party to the case, is at SCOTUS—but what about Sarah and Matthew, the American babies who are among the respondents?

Here’s my briefing on what’s at stake in tomorrow’s SCOTUS birthright-citizenship oral arguments, for @newyorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

I wrote about Trump’s loss in the SCOTUS tariff case (and more than people may want to know about Gorsuch’s 46-page concurrence on the “major questions doctrine”) for @NewYorker