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Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing."
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights
2022 has seen right-wing attacks on trans rights increasingly aided by the tacit, if sometimes unwitting, transphobia of liberal institutions.
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Why Queer Communities Are Welcoming Armed Antifascist Protection
After the Club Q massacre, there’s no comparing far-right violence and community self-defense.
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Black Liberation Elder to Be Freed From Prison — but Only on His Deathbed
Mutulu Shakur should have been released long ago, but the cruelties of carceral system know no bounds.
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Midterms Show Republican Anti-Abortion Agenda Relies on Minority Rule
But that doesn’t mean we can rest easy in the fight for reproductive justice.
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Michigan’s New Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Care-Providing Parents With Life in Prison
And in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to bring the same penalty to the national level.
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In Pig Welfare Case, Supreme Court Could Doom State Regulatory Laws Aimed at Industry
The right-wing justices who claim to support “states’ rights” could once again expose their hypocrisy in the service of big business.
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It’s a Girl (Fascist)!
Giorgia Meloni will be Italy’s first woman prime minister — and part of a long tradition of white womanhood being central to fascism.
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Lindsey Graham's "Late-Term" Abortion Ban Is a Lie
Graham's bill feigns a flawed compromise while drastically increasing enforced births and criminalizing medical care.
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Right-Wing Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas Ban on Trans Health Care
The injunction against a law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans children holds lessons for the moderates who have enabled GOP bigotry.