Tell Us, Susan Collins, Are You Really Surprised the Supreme Court Is...
Well of course Brett Kavanaugh is going to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. Is there a single human being in this country who is surprised by this news? One? No one could be that gullible and naïve. Oh...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Won’t Stop With Abortion Rights
Politico confirmed on Monday night what was clear from oral arguments in December as well as from a half-century of conservative legal activism: Roe v. Wade is poised to fall in the next two months....
View ArticleThe Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress
Where will you be when Roe ends? Whether or not Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reflects the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision on the right...
View ArticleOverturning Roe Is an Attack on the Modern Family
The American right’s obsessive focus on abortion is many things: misleading—it’s not about protecting the lives of innocent potential humans but about denying the essential humanity of women—shameless,...
View ArticleRepublicans Cast Themselves as the True Victims of the Supreme Court’s Roe Leak
Mitch McConnell could have taken a victory lap. Monday night’s revelation about Roe v. Wade—and, potentially, a whole host of other liberal legal victories, from gay marriage to legal access to...
View ArticleSo Long, DDT. See You Around Soon.
In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human health, corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for...
View ArticleWomen Wouldn’t Lose Their Right to Choose If We Elected Presidents by Popular...
The publication by Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward of Justice Samuel Alito’s February draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey confirms the reactionary nature...
View ArticleI Argued Roe v. Wade. It Would Be a Tragedy to Overturn It.
In January, Roe v. Wade will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. In the meantime, as the United States Supreme Court deliberates over whether to support or disarm the 1973 ruling, the nation watches...
View ArticleDemocrats Can Go Scorched Earth on Abortion Rights, or Go Home
“I feel like Senate Democrats care exponentially less about keeping my doctors out of jail than Republicans care about putting them there.” This is what I wrote in an email to a senior Senate...
View ArticleOhio Republicans Send Marin County Wine-Sipper Into November Battle
The MAGA circus was back in town on Tuesday night, my town of Cincinnati, this time in the person of past and more recent Ohioan J.D. Vance, looking to secure the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate...
View ArticleTexans Went to Oklahoma for Abortions—but as of This Week, Oklahoma’s Law Is...
Over her nine years of escorting patients to the Tulsa Women’s Center—Tulsa’s only independent abortion clinic—Susan Braselton has noticed an alarming increase in the aggression of the protesters...
View ArticleNever Trump Never Stood a Chance
J.D. Vance, the former globalist and current America Firster, completed an improbable comeback on Tuesday, winning an Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate despite trailing by a wide margin for most...
View ArticleWhat Could Biden Do If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned?
If the Supreme Court follows through with its plans to overturn Roe v. Wade in the next two months, what could President Joe Biden do about it? The short answer: not much. Biden has no power to...
View ArticlePankaj Mishra Counts the Costs of Success
There is a moment in Pankaj Mishra’s new novel, Run and Hide, when a young billionaire introduces his old college friends to the new world he inhabits, of summers in the Hamptons and homes scattered...
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An Unnatural Disaster: How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black...
The office of civil rights at the Agriculture Department is located on the third floor of a building named after a white supremacist. The Jamie Whitten Building, named in 1994, honors a member of...
View ArticleThe Rise of the No-Compromise Climate Candidate
When the New York State legislature approved the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) in 2019, The New York Times called it “one of the world’s most ambitious climate plans.” It...
View ArticleThe Rising Criminalization of Pregnancy
One night in May 2015, Kenlissia Jones was driving with her cousin and her 19-month-old son to pick up her godsister, who had had car trouble and was waiting on the side of a road in Putney, Georgia....
View ArticleThe End of Roe v. Wade Won’t Motivate Democrats
In January 2016, the biggest pro-life event of the year was a bust. As a blizzard dropped some two feet of snow on D.C., thousands of would-be March for Life attendees stayed home, leaving just a...
View ArticleJanuary 6 Recap: What’s Up With All These Cooperating Trump Associates?
Here’s what happened this weekAdd Donald Trump Jr. to the list of Trump family members who have quietly cooperated with the January 6 committee. On Wednesday the Associated Press reported that the...
View ArticleHow Mitch McConnell Wrecked the Senate
The disgraceful performance by the Senate Republicans at the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Jackson shows that they pose a continuing threat to the mutual respect, civil discourse, and good...
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