Despite What Pundits Claim, Most Elections Don’t Tell Us Much of Anything About America
The message from most elections is “Americans Still Disengaged From What the Political Class Spends Its Life Yammering About."
Politics
The End of Roe
Teenagers Already Face Extra Barriers to Abortion Care. It’s About to Get Worse.
Will states seeking to provide safe haven for abortion patients in the wake of Roe reconsider their parental consent laws?
Pentagon Explores Using SpaceX for Rocket-Deployed Quick Reaction Force
U.S. Transportation Command hopes Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets could prevent the next Benghazi.
The End of Roe
ReproJobs’ Emily Likins-Ehlers: Overly Cautious Organizations and Imminent Roe Overturn Are Driving Staff Dissent
“We're fucked. Roe is going to fall any day now. And we are going to have to set up bail funds.”
Nancy Pelosi Rebukes AIPAC Ads Against Donna Edwards
The response is a shift for the House speaker, a stalwart supporter of Israel and longtime ally of the flagship Israel lobby group.
Voices
In the Shadow of the Jan. 6 Hearings, Right-Wing Militancy Is on the Rise
The Patriot Front’s fascist rhetoric could make it a natural successor to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers as Donald Trump’s favorite white nationalist group.
Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill at a Critical Moment in World History
Locked in a cycle of Slack callouts and healing retreats, left-wing groups — from reproductive rights to climate to racial and economic justice — have brought themselves to a grinding halt.
Voices
Anti-Trans Campaigns Set the Stage for Far-Right Attacks on Pride Festivities
Threats against pride events and reports of suicide attempts by trans kids are only the first violent consequences of the far right’s campaign.
History Says Democracy Will Die if Democrats Don't Try “Going Big”
Robert Kuttner warns Biden's presidency may be the "heartbreaking interregnum between two bouts of deepening American fascism."
Voices
The Truth Never Mattered at Guantánamo
The deceit and lies and cover-ups of the worst moments in post-9/11 history have created an endless stage of hypocrisy for all the world to see.