Neil H. Buchanan

"US supreme court ‘demolishes' Voting Rights Act, gutting provision that prevented racial discrimination." That is the headline atop

An old friend of mine had a go-to joke that made me laugh every time. Whenever we were watching a TV show or movie, or talking about a natural disaster, or reacting to news about an unprovoked attack by an animal or a person, my friend would say: "What if we tried to reason with them?" A flock of locusts descends on a town: "What if we tried to reason with them?" A series of tornadoes tears through the Midwest: "What if we tried to reason with them?" Rage zombies dismember and eat humans in a post-apocalyptic hellscape: "What if we tried to reason with them?"

Bonus Weekend Content on Dorf on Law Tomorrow Note to readers: My second column of this week was supposed to run today, Friday the 8th.

If you are one of the people who makes important decisions at The New York Times -- a newspaper whose publisher actually had the nerve to write in 2024 that he has " no

Reasoning With the Other Zealots While Under Attack Should professors reflect on their successes and failures, taking the

When I come across a particularly inane news article, I save the link and jot down a few words to remind myself what I was thinking when I flagged it. For this column, the

I will offer below some updates on the ever-changing US situation regarding the effects of gerrymandering on the 2026 midterms. Spoiler alert: It is still looking good for Democrats overall -- though definitely bad for Black Democratic officeholders, due to the recent dirty deeds of the Supreme Court. Before I get there, however, it is worth looking back on some very recent history.

Are there members of the Trump Administration who are anything other than interchangeable parts in that creaking machine? That is, are there Trump appointees or advisors who create what economists call "value added" (although in this case the accurate term has to be value

We all agree that racism is bad, right? Right? At least as of this moment, opposing racism still appears to be the public position even of some -- but

The big news in American racism this year is that the bigots have decided to stop pretending that White men like them are being passed over in favor of supposedly inferior "diversity hires." Well, that is not quite right, because of course they will continue to whine about what they insist on calling reverse racism against (presumptively superior, I guess) White men. But the new and surprising (even to a cynic like me) addition to the White grievance canon in the US is that they are now tacitly admitting that they are afraid of a fair contest. Now, even when their competition bests them fair and square, that is still somehow evidence that the world is rigged against White men.