The right-wing organization blames “feminism” for falling fertility rates. Not surprisingly, its “solutions” are hostile to women.
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Glenn Youngkin’s Big Fat 15-Week Abortion Ban Belly Flop
The aw-shucks Republican made reproductive rights the issue in Virginia’s statehouse elections and got clobbered, proving his 15-week ban isn’t “a place we can come together.” Here’s why.
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The Surveillance Threat After Roe Is Worse Than You Think
Justin Sherman, a Duke University expert on data brokers, discusses the dangers to reproductive health and all that can go wrong in a brave new world of menstrual tracking apps.
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Biden Wounded Himself With His Hyde Amendment Decision
The former vice president just revolted all progressives and a key Democratic constituency: pro-choice women.
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Abortion is a Normal Part of Everyday Life
The GOP is uniformly the party of forced pregnancy and the party committed to eliminating female autonomy.
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Will Anyone Really Be Surprised if Roy Moore Wins?
In an infamously bloody scene in The Untouchables (1987), Robert De Niro declared, “I get nowhere unless the team wins.” Three decades later, De Niro’s line is, in effect, Donald Trump’s motto–and if that motto is shared by a majority of the Alabama electorate, then Roy Moore is guaranteed to win the state’s special US […]
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How Not to Save the Planet
Last year, I expressed misgivings about efforts by those concerned about the climate crisis to rely upon the “necessity defense” when prosecuted for acts of civil disobedience intended to raise awareness about America’s refusal to commit to an expedited transition away from fossil fuels. At the time, I was concerned that if climate hawks were […]
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Rich Lowry, Donald Trump, and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Rich Lowry doesn’t understand the resonance of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in Donald Trump’s America.
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The Ghost of Primaries Future
I started last week being ticked off at Bill Maher for his suggestion that members of the Democratic Party’s base are too obsessed with so-called “identity politics.” As part of his tirade, Maher mentioned Democrats lamenting perceived racism in sports–something that was remarkably tone-deaf in light of, well, racism in sports. Something tells me Adam […]
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What Unites and Divides Democrats
It’s not the big picture, but the specifics of how we achieve it.
