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Moira DoneganThe Guardian |
A Woman’s Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their...
Usually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts...
The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
What most people experience of government most of the time is local – the condition of roads, bin collections and other services that make the...
Just why do the Conservatives so dislike London? The former deputy chair of the Tory party Lee Anderson recently described the capital’s Labour...
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...
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...
Something that’s important to remember about last week’s ruling by the Alabama supreme court, which held that frozen embryos were persons under...
Elena Kagan once referred to Jonathan Mitchell sarcastically as “some genius”. That was in oral arguments surrounding SB8, the bounty-hunter...
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...
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...
The journalists came in and issued their ritual dispatches from the bucolic midwest, describing the state in terms heavy on sentiment and light on...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The settlement came almost immediately. Cassandra Ventura, the R&B singer better known by the stage name Cassie, had filed her blockbuster lawsuit in...
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,...
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...
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...
Late last month, when House Republicans ended their chaotic, weeks-long search for a new speaker by elevating Louisiana’s Mike Johnson, a curious...
It happened the way Ernest Hemingway, in The Sun Also Rises, described going bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” Last month in Georgia, Scott...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
W hen the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Tuesday, he subverted the normal procedures for...
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?...