Letters to America: My Appendix Burst - It Cost Me Nothing. Yours Would Have Cost You a House
I had the emergency surgery. The NHS picked up the bill. Nobody suggested a GoFundMe.
Letters to America - Thoughts from A Broad, from Abroad
Observations on the changes to America and American democracy - and how that affects businesses, people, and the rule of law across the globe - written from the perspective of a concerned and informed friend on the outside looking in...
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Letters to America: Lawn of the Free, King for a Day?
From Trooping the Colour to cage fights on the South Lawn, the real divide isn’t crown versus republic. It’s whether anyone can still tell the person at the top: “Nope, this isn’t yours.”
Letters to America: First You Made the Mess - Now You Export the Arsonists...
On the coups America has conveniently forgotten, the migrants it made, and the European democracies it's now trying to reshape in its own image.
Letters to America: This Is Not a Pendulum...
How courts, Congress, the media and the rest of us will have to move if we want this damn crisis in America's democratic experiment to actually end
Letters to America: Refuge Is a Luxury Item Now
On the inequality of escape, the limits of shield laws, and what has to be dismantled before survival stops being the best Americans can hope for.
Letters to America: Nine Robes, Fifty States, and a Bent Playing Field...
How Supreme Court doctrine and State Courts, together, are reshaping who really gets represented.
From One Democracy to Another: Your Supreme Court Is Not OK
Or why America’s highest court now looks less like a conservative institution- and more like a structural risk to democracy itself.
Letters to America: We May Never Know What Really Happened...
On violence, spectacle, and the uncomfortable work of checking your own biases | Written the day after the latest attempt on Trump’s life, not in the heat of the first headlines
Letters to America: The Acceleration
When the Guardrails Are Gone - Seven Questions for the Next Phase of Your Democracy
Letters to America: The Peace We Built, and the Bullet That Killed It
What Washington never told you about the peace it helped dismantle...