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Ohio Shows Abortion Rights is a Winner. Transphobia is a Loser.
Anti-abortion conservatives tried to win the referendum battle by scaring parents about transgender policies in schools. They failed.
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Ohio Republicans Go All-Out to Crush Majority Rule and Kill a Pro-Choice Referendum
It’s bad enough that the state’s GOP is trying to raise the threshold for a pro-choice referendum to 60 percent because they know they’ll lose. The chef’s kiss is all the norms they must break to get there.
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Thirteenth Amendment Abortion Rights and the Job of a Judge
Critics on the left and right pounced on a jurist for hearing arguments about whether the Civil War-era amendment provides a right to abortion. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Political Lessons of 2022 from Bill Scher
Our prescient political writer explains why swing voters matter, why bipartisanship is popular and possible, and how to beat voter suppression.
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Why Did Democrats Do So Well in the Midterms?
We have clues, but we don’t know the whole story—and won’t for a while.
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Losing the Culture Wars, Republicans Are Desperate
The Herschel Walker scandal underscores the GOP’s main problem: Long-term trends are against them.
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Herschel Walker and the Moral Bankruptcy of Anti-Abortion Leaders
As the “pro-life” candidate faces charges of paying for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion, leading advocates of criminalizing abortion shrug and rally behind the Republican.
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How Democrats Could Actually Keep the House
In times of crisis, the president’s party has proved that it can buck the trend of losing seats in the midterms—and voters are experiencing several crises this year.
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The Ads That Won the Kansas Abortion Referendum
Avoiding progressive pieties, the ad makers aimed at the broad, persuadable middle of the electorate.
