--- title: Steven Brill | TIME description: Brill, the author of Tailspin, is the founder of Court TV and the American Lawyer canonical: https://time.com/author/steven-brill/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/steven-brill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steven Brill ## Steven Brill Brill, the author of [ _Tailspin_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524731633/ref=as%5Fli%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=tmtailspinstevenbrill-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1524731633&linkId=8a6b700f650c049463efec6f99d75e91), is the founder of Court TV and the American Lawyer ## Steven Brill *  May 17, 2018 ### [How Baby Boomers Broke America](https://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 5, 2015 ### [What the Legal Battle Over Trump U. Reveals](https://time.com/4101290/what-the-legal-battle-over-trump-university-reveals-about-its-founder/) Inside the litigation [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Nov 5, 2015 ### [Donald Trump’s Most Useful Enemy](https://time.com/4101270/trumps-most-useful-enemy/) [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Jan 8, 2015 ### [What I Learned From My $190,000 Surgery](https://time.com/3659191/what-i-learned-from-my-190000-surgery/) The author of "America's Bitter Pill" recounts his own experience with our broken healthcare system ... [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Jul 31, 2014 ### [How Kentucky Got Obamacare Right](https://time.com/3062886/how-kentucky-got-obamacare-right/) In the deep-red, Bluegrass state, the Affordable Care Act is an unlikely hit. Just don’t call it by ... [U.S.](/section/us/) *  May 29, 2014 ### [The Hidden Cliffs in Obamacare](https://time.com/135462/the-hidden-cliffs-in-obamacare/) As the Affordable Care Act becomes reality, so do some of its little-known inequities [U.S.](/section/us/) *  Feb 27, 2014 ### [Obama's Trauma Team](https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/) How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website [POLITICS](/section/politics/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-brill/","name":"Steven Brill"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-brill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-brill/"},"name":"Steven Brill","jobTitle":null,"description":"Brill, the author of Tailspin, is the founder of Court TV and the American Lawyer","url":"https://time.com/author/steven-brill/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```