no, it’s iowa by Carrie Courogen

Carrie Courogen rewatches Field of Dreams, the 1989 tearjerker for boys, and is inspired to pen several smart, funny, artfully digressive paragraphs about the experience. I’m envious of the sheer amount of personality present in her prose as she still manages to make inspired, persuasive points about storytelling, baseball, and reckoning with heightened emotions. The piece stirs up an unexpected desire to mount my own fresh viewing of Field of Dreams, a movie I don’t think I’ve seen — or been all that interested in revisiting — since its original release. Courogen published this in her own blog, Bed Crumbs.

The Courts Cannot Save Us From Trump by Duncan Hosie

The Right’s Crusade Against Birthright Citizenship Is Just Getting Started by Jay Willis

As the Supreme Court of the United States seems poised to flatly reject one of the more absurdly illegal orchestrations by the miscreants currently in the White House, I’m still gravitating towards cynicism. For The New York Times, legal scholar Duncan Hosie offers an appropriately scathing assessment of the response to date by the broader legal system, including law firms and courts. That piece was written and published solidly before the recent arguments in the case on birthright citizenship. Following that day in the highest court in the land, Jay Willis examines how the likely repudiation of the executive branch’s obviously faulty premise is a beginning rather than an ending for the Republicans. Willis writes about the Overton Window of it all: “Simply by getting an audience with the justices, Trump has managed to transform a long-settled principle of constitutional law into what feels and sounds like a contestable policy position, especially on the political right.” Willis’s article is published by Balls and Strikes.