The time has come to connect popular anger over the conservative supermajority with concrete ideas for reform.
Roe v. Wade
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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.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why Radical Supreme Court Reforms Are Not the Answer to the Radical Roberts Court
Ending affirmative action in higher education, permitting anti-gay discrimination, and forbidding the education secretary from canceling student loan debt solidified the sorry legacy of the John Roberts Supreme Court. As both Garrett Epps and Joshua Douglas have thoroughly documented in the Washington Monthly, this is a radical Court dominated by six conservative justices willing to […]
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Ron DeSantis’s Moderate Sabbatical Year
In his first months as Florida’s governor, DeSantis actually governed as an inclusive center-right politician before becoming a crazed culture warrior. What does this mean for his 2024 bid?
Posted inHealth Care
The Sorry State of Maternal Health Care in America—And Signs of Hope
In Mississippi and other red states, Republicans are coming around to expanding Medicaid benefits for new mothers. It’s about time.
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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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Forced Labor: Why the Thirteenth Amendment Protects Abortion Rights
Roe v. Wade was built on a less-than-compelling Constitutional argument. But the right to choose is solidly grounded in the amendment that abolished slavery.
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Why You Didn’t Read About a “Red Wave” in the Washington Monthly
Our ace political writer Bill Scher never bought into the theory.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
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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What Joe Biden and LBJ Have in Common
Each saw the expansion of rights as key to their national ambitions, writes a noted historian. For LBJ, it was civil rights; for Biden, it was abortion.
