Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon, author, activist, and organizer, is dead at 92, leaving those of us in the women’s rights movement mournful—and determined.
Roe v. Wade
Posted inBooks
What Makes Sam Alito So Angry?
Irked by liberals from Princeton to Yale and the Justice Department to the Supreme Court, the conservative jurist finishes another term unbowed.
Posted inBooks
Who Killed Roe v. Wade?
The decades-long plot against abortion rights had many fathers, who were largely lost to history until now.
Posted inHigher Education
The United States of America v. Higher Education
Harvard’s lawsuit fighting the Trump administration’s freeze on its research grants is one that every higher education institution should join. Here’s why.
Posted inMagazine
How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of telehealth and the free sharing of mifepristone and misoprostol.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
Why They Reign Supreme
A fresh and readable one-volume history of the Court explains how we got from Marbury to Dobbs.
Posted inPolitics
What Trump and Vance Could Do to What’s Left of Reproductive Freedom
Dobbs was a disaster. A national abortion ban would make it worse, but a MAGA White House could install judges ready to take down the abortion pill to laws in legal abortion states.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Abortion and the Comstock “Chastity” Law Time Bomb
The 19th-century law banning materials “producing abortion” is still on the books and is a ready tool for anti-choice forces. But there are legal arguments that can defuse it.
Posted inNewsletter
Trump Can’t Run From His Biggest Accomplishment: Overturning Roe
Trump says abortion laws are up to the states. But some of the swing states already have extreme bans. More in our April 9, 2024 newsletter.
Posted inNewsletter
Will DeSantis’s Terrible Governing Give Florida to Biden?
Plus, Biden’s secret weapon: Kamala Harris, the case against selling U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, which states help college grads find jobs, and more in the April 4, 2024, Washington Monthly Newsletter.
