Matt Ford

The president is nobody’s idea of a technology expert, but thanks to his crypto broligarch pals, he has leveled up his grift.

The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.

The president-elect’s first term was a circus of self-dealing and plutocratic capture. His second term may end up making that look like an innocent era.

As the justices mull getting back into the business of strictly scrutinizing smut, their forebears offer some good reasons why they should not.

The notorious Reed O’Connor is back with another one of his patented-troll decisions, this time threatening to upend the world of socially conscious investing.

The Supreme Court declined the opportunity to halt the president-elect’s sentencing in a New York state court—at least for now.

The Roberts court used a novel doctrine to blunt or undo many of Biden’s policy initiatives. But the president-elect was left curiously untroubled by this de facto judicial veto during his last term.

The case is a harbinger of intrastate conflict to come, as red-state attorneys general ramp up their campaigns against blue-state governance.

We can all agree that Supreme Court justices shouldn’t face threats of physical violence. But only in the chief justice’s warped, cloistered world does criticism of the high court constitute intimidation.

The two major techbro obsessions—crypto and AI—have delivered mostly scams and hype. But this year, they managed to buy themselves a federal government.

When the president-elect says he wants to revive “impoundments,” he’s really talking about a vast expansion of his autocratic vision.

A massive lobbying push and a critical Supreme Court decision put the ability to wager our life savings in the palms of our hands. The gamble hasn’t paid off.

The assassination of Brian Thompson—and the reaction to it—suggests Americans are fed up and feel powerless.

The high court appeared ready to deal a savage blow to the rights and livelihoods of a group that conservatives have spent the year targeting.

After years of touting the need to preserve democracy and the rule of law, the outgoing president concludes his reign in the most cynical way imaginable.

The masterminds behind the proposed government efficiency agency have provided more detail about how it would function. Their explanations only makes their enterprise seem less plausible.

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.

The vanity agency the billionaire oligarch is getting from Trump probably won’t accomplish much beyond giving him and partner Vivek Ramaswamy more of what they desperately crave—attention.

The president-elect is contemplating taking up never-before-used presidential powers to create a separation of powers crisis on behalf of a favored political crony.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just threw a major wrench into the effort to protect the planet—and teed up another chance for the Supreme Court to take a bite out of the administrative state.