Follow Joanna L. on Twitter @JoannaGrossman. Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She is also a licensed attorney in Texas who represents pregnant minors.
A ban on the procedure after six weeks creates a virtually impossible time frame to identify and terminate a pregnancy—especially for minors.
Much like the economy at large, the media eco-system favors big players over independent creators.
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A new book treats old age, or ‘gerontocracy,’ as the central crisis of modern politics. The framing obscures more than it explains.
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In the 1980s, serious people feared World War III and acted to prevent it. Today, our slouch toward World War III is being orchestrated by egotistical sociopaths.
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Nicholas Lemann’s family history illuminates what it means to be Jewish in America and explains how we choose our religious and ethnic identities.
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Two rulings this year, including one this month, have laid bare the court’s fundamental misinterpretation of the landmark law and the Reconstruction Era Constitutional amendments that transformed America.
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I studied with the late Harvard professor who had a nuanced understanding of class and race in America.
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The Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate was seen as a cutting-edge adopter of artificial intelligence, but it only cut down his chances of winning.
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