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Lose Roe, lose right to privacy
Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.
The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short
Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.
The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them
Why democracy is its own worst enemy.
History doesn’t care if the GOP is on the wrong side
Progress is a consequence of politics.
The mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
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Democracy isn’t ‘backsliding.’ Equality is
Equality has been presumed in the word ‘democracy’ since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.
Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal
The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.
Stop laughing at Michael Flynn
The former Trump advisor is spearheading a project to build a violent, ultra-nationalist, ultra-Christian right to take control of America.