Teri has written novels, short stories, nonfiction for both young readers and adults, and lots of legal briefs. She is currently working on a book on disinformation to be published by Macmillan Publishers. Her political commentary has appeared on the NBC Think Blog and CNN.com. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications as diverse as Education Week, Slate Magazine, and Scope Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in the American Literary View, The Iowa Review, and others. For twelve years she maintained a private appellate law practice limited to representing indigents on appeal from adverse rulings. She believes with the ACLU that when the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled. She also believe with John Updike that the purpose of literature is to expand our sympathies. Teri lives with her family on the beautiful central coast in California.
A little bit of agitation is good. It motivates us to action. It stimulates voter turnout. Too much is paralyzing. And pointless.
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Here’s the part that is hard for people to grasp: The GOP doesn’t want a democracy. They want fascism. They’re trying to destroy truth. That, of course, explains Fox, Trump, and the GOP. They are actively trying to undermine factuality.
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Last week I wrote about Trump’s lawsuit requesting a special master to screen the Mar-a-Lago documents. To recap, his lawsuit was based on the outlandish claim that he had the right to
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Donald Trump’s stealing, mishandling, and concealing of US defense secrets is on the Republican Party for refusing to remove him from office when it was clear he was not fit to be
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This week, at least some of the media narrative about Attorney General Merrick Garland went from “Garland is doing nothing because he’s too timid,” to “Garland is doing it all wrong,” to
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This is three parts: The decision overturning Roe v. Wade, what it means, and where we go from here And . . . people blame the Democrats It’s all about controlling women
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I: What We Know There was an interesting series of events this week involving the Justice Department, Peter Navarro, Mark Meadows, Steven Bannon, and Dan Scavino. Here’s the timeline: Peter Navarro worked
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On Dec. 21, 2012 — one week after Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced during a
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I had a blog post all ready to go, and then I threw it out and wrote this. (I write quickly when I feel annoyed.) People are constantly telling me some version
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First I’ll talk about how and why the Republican Party embraced Vladimir Putin and what it means that so many prominent Republicans are now either hiding from or backpedaling their previous support
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I. Destructive Lies Last week, after laying out the seditious conspiracy charges, I left off with the question: So what the heck is going on with the Republican Party? Really, the question
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On Friday, Taylor Budowich (Trump spokesperson and one of the planners of the Stop the Steal Rally on Jan. 6) sued the select Congressional committee investigating the insurrection. Now that several of
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