by Aisha Sultan The conservative “pro-life” movement managed to do something that abortion-rights activists have been trying to do for decades — they have destroyed the stigma around abortion. When the same Supreme Court justices who had testified during Congressional hearings ...
by Melinda Burrell As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock’s cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting. Those 1970s cartoons weren’t wrong. Voting is the most fundamental act of democratic ...
Our story so far ... The Extreme Court just gutted reproductive rights, shredded a New York law that helped keep guns out of public spaces for more than a century, and crippled the Environmental Protection Agency in the face of a global climate crisis. Georgia may soon send to the ...
Will history repeat without Roe v. Wade? In 1944-45, Helen Cooper was a first-year teacher in Cincinnati when she told her seventh-graders their classmate had died from a “botched up” abortion. My mother related the story in a letter to the Cincinnati Post on Dec. 30, 1985: “Our ...
Despite some polls that put incumbent Alex Mooney ahead of incumbent David McKinley, we were still surprised to see Mooney prevail. After all, this is McKinley’s home district — the counties McKinley previously represented account for more than half of the new District 2. And for all ...
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