Abortion Activists Need to Win Back the Culture Before We Can Win Back the Court
Make abortion normal again.
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Perspectives on the news from Intercept columnists, reporters, and freelance contributors.
Racist “Replacement” Conspiracy Is Undergirded by a Real Resource Scarcity
It would be folly to ignore the inequality, resource scarcity, and ecological calamity that lurk behind the Buffalo shooter's racist conspiracy theories.
The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft opinion to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point.
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)
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.
My Story: How I Was "Groomed" by My Elementary School Teachers
From encouraging me to read and write, to nudging me to think for myself, their pernicious influence burdens me to this day.
The End of Roe: Saving Abortion Rights Means Taking Them Into Our Own Hands
The relentless right and feckless Democrats brought us here. Now, preserving access to abortion will require breaking some laws.
The New New Right Was Forged in Greed and White Backlash
While disaffection with liberal progress myths certainly propels the New Right, there’s much more to it.
The Must-Read (Parody) Beauty Blog of a Top CIA Girlboss/Torture Queen!
(Alfreda Bikowsky Scheuer did not write this.)
Joe Biden Deserves the Blame for Killing the Iran Nuclear Deal
To make sure the Iran deal wasn't revived, Donald Trump introduced a poison pill — but Biden is the one demanding that Iran swallow it.