Comparison: . . . the legal architecture is one of those cursed American contraptions with twelve brass levers and a smoking boiler. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. That was the big one. The Court basically looked at this whole setup and said, no, sorry, this item is not unlocked. You cannot just rummage around in the statutory attic, find a wrench, and declare it a crown. Shanley Hurt legally takes readers

Comparison: Trump seems to have his own set of deflector shields: his cabinet secretaries and other top officials, whom he uses to absorb some of the blowback from his most contentious policies. . . . When the shields are at reasonable strength, they can keep taking fire, and the ship of state continues flying. But when the shields are battered and begin to malfunction, the entire enterprise is exposed. And right now, a lot of Trump’s shields seem to be faltering at once. Car

Comparison: . . . picture the campaign playlist as a kind of retail theft. Not the glamorous kind, not the ‘Ocean’s Eleven‘ kind, just the plain kind where someone strolls out with something small because they assume no one is going to stop them. That is how political campaigns sometimes treat music, like it is a communal resource, a public utility, a mood-setting spray bottle you can mist over the crowd. You want triumph, you want swagger, you want nostalgia, and you want th