Trump’s overreach, underpinned by his new efficiency agenda, ironically creates more inefficiencies than shortcuts.

In revolutionary art and in these “Liberated Zones,” we reward ourselves with aesthetic entitlement, call each other honorary comrades, and take pride in our gathering before dispersing shortly after.

There is still hope. Simply giving up and accepting the country’s current trajectory would be disrespectful to those who came before us and catastrophic for those who come after.

In the beginning, it was the Federalists and Anti-Federalists who put up their dukes, shepherding in a perennial clash between the powers of state and central government. Now, a malaise follows us everywhere we go. Conversations become reconnaissance missions, even warzones.

“Given the complications that rapidly advancing technology poses to gamete donation, lawmakers can and must sponsor new regulation to account for a reality in which privacy and anonymity are no longer secure.”

Thoughtful regulation can balance ethical concerns while protecting reproductive liberty—the problem appears to be in getting regulators to think in the first place.