I’m Michael Starr Hopkins. I burn the playbook because

I spent twenty years inside Democratic politics — Obama, Clinton, Delaney, a decade of campaigns, congressi

I wrote op-eds in The Hill, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and Fox News. I
was a Manhattan public defender befo

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

• Michael Starr Hopkins