New! "Stand Up to Cancer?" Stand Up to Congress and the White House (Aug. 2008)

New! Pancreatic Cancer: My Mother's Death: Research Funding Urgently Needed (Aug. 2008). Read the piece a Washington Post editor called "smart and moving."

Of Missionaries, Zionists and Barbary Pirates -- I review Michael Oren's history of America's involvement in the Mideast, Legal Times (Feb. 26, 2007)

Don't waste your charity on rich colleges, Los Angeles Times (Nov. 25, 2006)

Oprah and Auschwitz, Baltimore Sun (Feb. 26, 2006)

Anti-Semitism on Display: Ugly Postings on Duke U.'s website.

Assessing Anti-Semitism -- I review books by the ADL's Abraham Foxman and Commentary's Gabriel Schoenfeld. Legal Times (June 7, 2004)

Sex, Drugs and Murder -- Inside a D.C. Homicide Trial

A Tale of Two Cities: NYC's Operation Atlas and DC's Operation Atlas Shrugged (March 29, 2003). (The "author's cut") You also can see the Washington Post's "editor's cut" here

Why cameras don't belong in the jury room. Washington Post (Dec. 22, 2002)

Regulating the Ferrari Set - on a Ford Salary, Washington Post (Jan. 4, 2000)

Read the article on pro-Palestinian media bias that infuriated a Washington Post editor (2002) (note: it's long)

Slackers, Stigma and Depression, Mental Health Net (1997)

Boyz 'N the Neck -about the racial crisis in my home town, American Lawyer (March 1996)

I review Defending Pornography by the ACLU's Nadine Strossen, Legal Times (Aug. 1995)

Does Free Speech Exist? - I review Stanley Fish, Legal Times (Apr. 1994)

Does the Jury System Need Repair? Legal Times (Jan. 1995)

Polish-Jewish Reconciliation: A Long Way to Go, originally published in The Forward (Dec. 1996) (scroll halfway down linked page)

LIGHTER PIECES

New! Harry Potter and the Foreign Knockoffs -- My satirical piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 16, 2007 (writer's cut).

Miers: She's Got Game (Oct. 28,2005)

Sixth Graders, Approach the Bench, Washington Post (Sunday, July 17, 2005)

Arnold and the Professor (Dec. 2004)

Kerry Retracts Concession, Demands Recount (Nov. 2004)

The Flack in the Hat, Chicago Tribune (Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003).

We'll Blow Them Out of the Water! The 2012 Olympics, Washington Post, (Jan. 2002)

Being Dave Eggers

Tanless (Fall 2002)

House-hunting Hell

TV hits you'll soon be talking about (with Gregory Baruch, 2002)

Look Good in Tux, Ready to Run the NEA, Wall Street Journal (April 1989)

Superlawyers storm the Continent! Baltimore Sun (Apr. 1992)

Regulating Wall Street Billionaires - Hear me on Public Radio's "Marketplace" (subscription required)

The Lullaby of Washington - Hail to the Redskins? Washington Post (Jan. 1991)

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