John L. Micek

Even if you’ve only been casually following the fiery debate over abortion rights in the days since a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion eviscerating ... Read More

In the hours after the bombshell leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion toppling Roe v. Wade, I awaited the torrent of Republican-authored ... Read More

Writing in his diary in the spring of 1759, John Adams mused aloud on the images that were likely to run through his head as ... Read More

More years ago than I really care to count, the children’s librarian in my little town in rural northwestern Connecticut, apparently tired of my endlessly ... Read More

Since it seems to have become something of a thing of late, here’s what the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says about the right ... Read More

The other day, the host of a television public affairs show asked me what I thought a group of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers were trying to ... Read More

Victoria Schiano’s son, Cole, is five-and-a-half. And he’s enduring what no kid his age should ever be asked to endure. He has mitochondrial disease, lives ... Read More

There’s a lot that’s terrible about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s brutal attempt to erase Ukraine from the map of Europe. From the incalculable humanitarian disaster ... Read More

Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), who once advised President Donald Trump’s White House on undermining the 2020 election results, and who was a target of ... Read More

If this were an ordinary column, I'd offer some neat prescription or exhort policymakers to take action on the solution to the crisis happening in ... Read More