Rich Countries Should Give Poor Countries Money out of Sheer Self-Interest
A major sticking point at the last U.N. climate change conference, known as COP26, was the matter of how much money rich countries are going to give poor countries to fight climate change. This...
View ArticleRoe Leak Fallout: Democratic Attorneys General Plan Push to Make Abortion an...
Ever since the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade surfaced, Democrats have been grappling with the fact that the worst-case scenario may very well be nigh. The emerging argument has...
View ArticleWhat Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy
With an eye to this November’s elections, Paul Spink—like many union leaders in Wisconsin—plans to do his utmost this year to salvage what’s left of democracy in his state. Spink, president of the...
View ArticleA Shipwreck, an Insurance Scam, and a Murderous Cover-Up
In July 2011, David Mockett was dividing his time between Yemen, where he worked as a marine surveyor, and England, where he, his wife, and two adult daughters lived. His job was to conduct independent...
View ArticleThe Feigned Ignorance and Callous Indifference of the Supreme Court’s...
This summer, Roe v. Wade will fall. It should be dangerous to write such an emphatic prediction about a decision the Supreme Court won’t issue for at least a month, if not longer; at this point, we...
View ArticleBiden Is Smart to Attack Rick Scott’s Tax Hike on the Poor. But He Needs to...
Republican Senator Rick Scott professed bafflement last week that President Joe Biden is “obsessed with my plan to rescue America.” It’s true, he kind of is. On Tax Day, the White House released a fact...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
It’s often said that every crisis begets an opportunity, and while it’s eminently reasonable to wish for less distressing times, the Covid-19 pandemic helped to illuminate numerous frailties within our...
View ArticleMitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Moscow Mitch just handed Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi the biggest gift they could imagine. Will they open it and seize on it?In an interview with USA Today late last week, McConnell acknowledged that...
View ArticleThe Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute Roe Goes Down
Should the leaked draft decision that recently ended up in the hands of reporters at Politico eventually become the majority holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—and thus overturn...
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Donald Trump’s Brazen Bid to Control MAGA Minds
In the summer of 2007, Donald Trump—his businesses in ruin, hanging on to relevance for dear life via The Apprentice—cut an advertisement to introduce his newest namesake product. “When it comes to...
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The Last Abortion Clinic in Knoxville Draws Patients From Hours Away. What...
Aaron Campbell has known for most of his life that he wanted to be an OB-GYN. When he was 14, in 2005, he dressed up as a doctor for Halloween. It wasn’t a terribly difficult costume to put together,...
View ArticleThere’s No Good Reason for the United States to Stay out of the International...
Now that the Biden administration has pledged to help the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague—“and other efforts”—to prosecute Putin and others for war crimes committed during the...
View ArticleWith Roe, the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
There’s one clear reason why the right has spent much of the last week fulminating over a leak of a draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade: It’s the easiest way to not have to talk...
View ArticleWill House Democrats Vote to Let Their Staffers Unionize?
Editor’s Note: This piece was written by two Democratic congressional staffers on behalf of a 12-member organizing committee. Since they face possible retaliation until the House vote takes place, The...
View ArticleIf These Intel Leaks Don’t Stop, We Could Be Headed for Conflict With Russia
Over the past two weeks, unnamed U.S. intelligence officials have been falling over themselves to boast to reporters about what a great job they’re doing in helping Ukraine kill Russian soldiers and...
View ArticleAnti-China Bills Aren’t the Climate Solution Democrats Think They Are
As the country focused last week on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Senate pushed through language to divert $8 billion in climate aid to the...
View ArticleYou Go to the Labor Ward, and You Are Treated Like Meat
In many ways, the worst has already happened in Poland. In October 2020, the country’s constitutional court, which is closely aligned with the conservative Law and Justice party, made abortion on the...
View ArticleJennifer Egan Weaves a Tangled Social Web
A few years ago, I found myself in a stranger’s home when she was not there. I looked into her shower, checked the knobs on her stove, walked the path from the front door to the garage where the washer...
View ArticleHow Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights
The court’s apparent decision to deprive women of a constitutional right to control their bodies, health, and destiny is the direct consequence of the pact between the Republican Party and American’s...
View ArticleOverturning Roe Could Make Ectopic Pregnancies Extremely Dangerous
With the looming prospect of the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, several Republican-led states are lining up bills to restrict access to abortion. But enacting sweeping legislation could...
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