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Moira Donegan

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OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had

OJ Simpson is dead, and Nicole Brown should still be alive. Simpson, the longtime batterer and stalker of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the man who all...

12.04.2024 200

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Moira Donegan

Republicans want to use an 1873 law to ban abortion. Congress must repeal it

They don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and...

08.04.2024 40

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Florida just crushed abortion rights. But it also created a tool to fight back

It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have allowed Governor Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban to...

03.04.2024 10

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Even the US supreme court was baffled by conservatives’ attack on abortion pills

It is a testament to how weak the plaintiffs’ case is that the justices seemed so skeptical. Erin Hawley, a lawyer for the far-right antifeminist...

27.03.2024 80

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Biden’s State of the Union: raucous, strident and insistently optimistic

Like a budget, a State of the Union speech is a moral document: it reflects a president’s values and priorities, distilling his own view of his...

08.03.2024 7

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It’s Trump v Biden again. Why were there no better options for voters?

You would hardly know from the 2024 cycle that primaries are supposed to be political contests. Each party’s primaries, if they can be called that,...

07.03.2024 4

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The Guardian view on local government finance: a crisis that corrodes democracy

What most people experience of government most of the time is local – the condition of roads, bin collections and other services that make the...

29.02.2024 2

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The Guardian view on London: diversity thrives while Tories pander to prejudice

Just why do the Conservatives so dislike London? The former deputy chair of the Tory party Lee Anderson recently described the capital’s Labour...

28.02.2024 4

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Moira Donegan

It is our loss that Aaron Bushnell is no longer with us

The horror of it is beyond my capacity to describe. On Sunday afternoon, a US air force airman named Aaron Bushnell doused himself in gasoline outside...

28.02.2024 2

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Mitch McConnell’s time in the Senate will be remembered as sad and cynical

For a moment, it looked like his face was going to fall off. At a press conference at the Capitol last July, Mitch McConnell, a senator for Kentucky...

28.02.2024 3

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Alabama is using the notion that embryos are people to surveil and harass women

Something that’s important to remember about last week’s ruling by the Alabama supreme court, which held that frozen embryos were persons under...

26.02.2024 4

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US supreme court justices have strange views on whether Trump is disqualified

Elena Kagan once referred to Jonathan Mitchell sarcastically as “some genius”. That was in oral arguments surrounding SB8, the bounty-hunter...

09.02.2024 20

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Why is the Biden administration still afraid to talk about abortion?

For years, the beltway set had a standard line of advice for Democratic candidates: stick to the economy. The idea was that white, male, blue-collar...

29.01.2024 30

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Nikki Haley has been running to lead a Republican party that no longer exists

Can we stop pretending now? After weeks of speculating by the media that perhaps Nikki Haley might eke out a win in New Hampshire – or at least lose...

24.01.2024 30

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Trump won Iowa handily. The idea that he won’t be the nominee is absurd

The journalists came in and issued their ritual dispatches from the bucolic midwest, describing the state in terms heavy on sentiment and light on...

16.01.2024 10

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Do pregnant women have a right to urgent medical care? No, according to a US court

Do doctors have an obligation under federal law to keep their patients alive, even if their patients happen to be pregnant women? Do doctors have an...

10.01.2024 9

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files – cartoon

06.01.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

Claudine Gay’s resignation had nothing to do with plagiarism

Any political observer who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that the resignation of Claudine Gay, the...

04.01.2024 3

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Kate Cox begged Texas to let her end a dangerous pregnancy. She won’t be the last

In most cases, we would never have learned her name. Kate Cox, a Texas woman, is in a sadly common set of circumstances: a 31-year-old mother of two,...

12.12.2023 4

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There’s a big reason Joe Biden is losing younger voters: Israel and Palestine

The 2024 presidential contest should not be close. Joe Biden’s opponent, Donald Trump, is a bigot, a liar and a crook, with dozens of credible...

23.11.2023 20

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Diddy’s alleged abuse of Cassie is a sad reminder of how power works in society

The settlement came almost immediately. Cassandra Ventura, the R&B singer better known by the stage name Cassie, had filed her blockbuster lawsuit in...

21.11.2023 8

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The US supreme court’s new ‘ethics code’ is an embarrassment

One of the unspoken rules of the US supreme court is that the justices will never admit that they were wrong, and no one else is allowed to admit it,...

15.11.2023 6

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The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism. We’re worse off without it

Jezebel is dead. After 16 years, the women’s news site, launched by Gawker Media under the editor Anna Holmes in 2007, shuttered for good this past...

11.11.2023 30

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The Republican presidential debate was a televised temper tantrum

Because I did something terrible in a past life and have to be punished for it in this one, on Wednesday night I watched the Republican presidential...

09.11.2023 4

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Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, is a gender extremist

Late last month, when House Republicans ended their chaotic, weeks-long search for a new speaker by elevating Louisiana’s Mike Johnson, a curious...

08.11.2023 50

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Why are so many of Trump’s supposed loyalists flipping on him?

It happened the way Ernest Hemingway, in The Sun Also Rises, described going bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” Last month in Georgia, Scott...

27.10.2023 5

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Why are Republicans failing over and over to find a speaker of the House?

In times of chaos and dissension, you will often hear pundits, professionals, and those who self-identify as serious call for an “adult in the...

18.10.2023 3

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The ouster of Kevin McCarthy shows Republicans don’t care about governing

T he worst job in America has just become available. On Tuesday, after a weeks-long struggle with his caucus to fund the government and avert a...

04.10.2023 40

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Moira Donegan

This pointless Republican debate left us all feeling a little bit dumber

“E very time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber,” Nikki Haley said onstage at the second Republican presidential primary debate last night. She...

28.09.2023 4

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Why are celebrities rushing to defend convicted rapist Danny Masterson?

I n the video they are wearing T-shirts, looking unkempt. Maybe a consultant from a crisis PR firm told them that it would be a bad look to appear on...

14.09.2023 5

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Moira Donegan

The Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into Biden is laughably cynical

W hen the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Tuesday, he subverted the normal procedures for...

13.09.2023 2

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Moira Donegan

Anti-choice states aren’t satisfied. Now they want to punish traveling for abortions

H ow free can any woman be in a country where her right to control her body and family depends on the jurisdiction where she happens to live?...

12.09.2023 20

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