Jane Mayer on Ohio’s Lurch to the Right
Last month, the story of a 10-year-old rape victim captured national headlines. The young girl was forced to travel out of state because of Ohio’s draconian abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or...
8 Aug 202224min
Can Suing Gun Manufacturers Reduce Gun Violence?
Gun manufacturers are the only industry explicitly protected by federal statute from liability lawsuits. Carmakers and cigarette companies can be taken to court if their products or marketing endanger...
4 Aug 202234min
Did the U.S. Miss the Chance to Stop Monkeypox?
The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency. There have been nearly twenty thousand cases worldwide and nearly thirty-five hundred in the United States,...
28 Jul 202231min
New Mexico Is a “Safe Haven” for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona
In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a “reproductive safe haven” between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the east. Already, she says, New Mexico’s few abortion clini...
27 Jul 202213min
Trump’s Hundred and Eighty-seven Minutes of Inaction on January 6th
On Thursday evening, the committee charged with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol presented what it has learned so far about President Trump’s behavior on that eventful day. As membe...
22 Jul 202232min
How White Christian Nationalists Seek to Transform America
The past few weeks have been full of unsettling indicators of the fragile state of our democracy. The January 6th committee has assembled a frightening account of how near the 2020 election came to be...
21 Jul 202229min
The Queer Children’s Books Targeted By the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill took effect this month. Signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis, it limits the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in grade school classrooms,...
14 Jul 202233min
