Public writing
Essays and op-eds
Selected pieces on state capacity, administrative law, and health policy.
The Atlantic
- The Blue-State Delusion Over UnionsThey don’t always work in the public interest.
- The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the TorchThat isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
- The Supreme Court’s Green Double StandardThe Court is encouraging deference to the executive branch—when it likes the results.
- The Birthright-Citizenship Case Isn’t Really About Birthright CitizenshipAnd there’s good reason for that.
- What Alito’s Dissent Fails to UnderstandThe justice and his allies want to treat the foreign-aid case like an everyday spat over the terms of a government contract. It couldn’t be more different.
- Musk and Ramaswamy Are Making a Big MistakeThey want to blame the bureaucrats, but they’re going to need those very same bureaucrats if they want to get anything done.
The New York Times
- Mamdani Will Need to Change How He GovernsWith Robert Gordon.
- America’s Health Care Is Under Existential ThreatWith Andy Slavitt.
- Some of Trump’s Most Devious Lies Are About Health Care
- ‘Most of Government Is Unconstitutional’On Gundy v. United States and the revival of the nondelegation doctrine.
- Why Trump’s New Push to Kill Obamacare Is So Alarming
- The Republicans’ Uncertainty StrategyWith Craig Garthwaite.
Other outlets
Writing regularly
On Substack
Everything published on Substack, including essays for Divided Argument, The Argument, and the Searchlight Institute.
Read the archiveFrequent contributor to The Incidental Economist
Years of posts on health law, administrative law, and the pandemic.
Read the archiveNotice & Comment
Posts on administrative law and regulatory practice for the Yale Journal on Regulation’s blog.
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