Baby Formula Industry Successfully Lobbied to Weaken Bacteria Safety Testing Standards
The current formula shortage is traced in part to a contamination-induced shutdown at a key manufacturing plant.
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Liberals Are Celebrating a New Book on Rural Trump Voters That Falls Apart Under the Simplest Inspection
Maine state Sen. Chloe Maxmin correctly recognizes that coastal Democrats are confused by rural America. She’s exploiting their ignorance in “Dirt Road Revival.”
![View of anti-abortion demonstrators, many with signs, at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 1st Street NW during a counter-protest to the Pro Choice March for Women's Lives, Washington DC, March 9, 1986. Among the signs are ones that read 'If You Knew Jesus You Will Not Kill Babys [sic]' 'Abortion Destroys God's Greatest Creation,' 'Feminists For Life, Real Feminists Don't Kill,' and 'I am not a 413-Mo-Old Fetus.' (Photo by Ann E. Zelle/Getty Images)](https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-12778417931-e1652217440502.jpg?fit=768%2C382)
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How America's Evangelicals Turned Themselves Into an Anti-Abortion Machine
The books and lectures of Francis Schaeffer played a key role in politicizing Protestant evangelicals and turning them against Roe v. Wade.
White House Rejects Rep. Seth Moulton’s Characterization of a “Proxy War” With Russia
Biden has dished out his own escalatory rhetoric, calling Putin a war criminal and suggesting that the Russian president couldn’t remain in power.
The End of Roe
A “Woodstock” for Right-Wing Legal Activists Kicked Off the 40-Year Plot to Undo Roe v. Wade
Two hundred conservatives gathered at Yale Law School and coalesced into a group whose name was a joke: the Federalist Society.
Democrats’ Major Campaign Tech Firm Shifts Under New Private Equity Owner
The acquisition of NGP VAN gave British venture capital firm Apax some of the Democratic Party’s most critical infrastructure.
The Implosion of a Democratic Socialist Campaign
Brandy Brooks, an equity consultant running for Maryland office, was well-positioned to resolve a harassment complaint by a campaign staffer and friend. Mediation was successful — but it fell apart anyway.
The End of Roe
How a Supreme Court Investigation of the Roe v. Wade Leak Might Unfold
The leak investigation of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade raises important issues for journalists as well as potential sources.
Until Ukraine, Russia Lobbyists Successfully Blunted U.S. Sanctions After Foreign Adventurism
After unpopular assaults on Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Russia and Kremlin-associated interests spent millions on lobbying in Washington.
Mark Esper Waited Two Years to Tell Us Trump Wanted Troops to Shoot George Floyd Protesters
The former defense secretary is not the first Trump aide to save damning information for a memoir, but Esper knew Trump wanted an American Tiananmen and still kept quiet.