Public writing
Essays and op-eds
Selected pieces on state capacity, administrative law, and health policy.
The Atlantic
- The Blue-State Delusion Over UnionsWhy the party of labor keeps mistaking public-sector union power for a progressive end in itself.
- The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the TorchOn Trump v. CASA and what the end of universal injunctions actually means.
- Musk and Ramaswamy Are Making a Big MistakeDOGE’s mental model of the federal government gets the binding constraint backwards.
- The Plan to Incapacitate the Federal GovernmentWhat overruling Chevron would do to the agencies that run the country.
- How to Fix the GovernmentState capacity, and why competence is a progressive value.
- A Single Judge Shouldn’t Have This Kind of National PowerThe mifepristone ruling and the structural problem of the single-judge division.
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.
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