Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

UC Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo should be persona non grata, but if you quote him, you should always identify him as the author of the torture memos

"Luckily we can predict what our machine guns will do”: A line from Katy Evans-Bush’s “Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle” and its echo in a SCOTUS decision

Remembering reading Philip Levine’s poem “28” in “The New Yorker” in September 1986

Two Swiss People’s Party politicians in a scuffle with the police

The alleged “weaponization” of the legal system in the United States and the conviction of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on felony gun charges

United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the “polarization” of United States politics