I’m Michael Starr Hopkins. I burn the playbook because the old one was written to keep you quiet.

I spent twenty years inside Democratic politics — Obama, Clinton, Delaney, a decade of campaigns, congressional races, and courtrooms where the stakes were real.

I wrote op-eds in The Hill, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and Fox News. I
was a Manhattan public defender before I ever worked a campaign. I know how power talks when it thinks no one is listening.

Burn the Playbook is a daily column for people who are done pretending the system works. Corruption. Power.

If you work in politics, media, or law and you’re tired of being lied to in your own language, this is for you.

• Michael Starr Hopkins