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Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections
We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.
With a mandate affecting 100 million workers, Biden becomes a good ‘law and order’ president
Putting an end to the lawlessness.
No, Roe’s imminent demise won’t drive conservative white women away from the Republican Party
It will create new enemies, though.
The closer we get to the minority-majority tipping point, the more the Republicans are going to inflame white racism
To combat a damaging narrative, we must talk about it.
The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas
A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.
For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’
Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price.
The vaccine debate keeps denying the moral agency of people who refuse vaccinations
Grown Americans know what they should do. They are choosing not to.
GOP paramilitary takeover, sex worker rights, covid lab leak debunked, Roe still alive in 49 states, plus John Stoehr’s week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board!