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The Left Case for Fertility Awareness The Left Case for Fertility Awareness
No pill, intrauterine device, or ultra-ribbed piece of rubber could provide the sexual liberation I experience practicing a method associated with anti-choice religious zealots.
Dec 26, 2019 / Megan Magray
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President Scrooge and His Dickensian Cabal President Scrooge and His Dickensian Cabal
The administration’s holiday greeting is a plan to slash food stamp benefits for roughly 700,000 unemployed Americans.
Dec 25, 2019 / John Nichols
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The Climate Movement Is Gaining Momentum in Spite of Trump The Climate Movement Is Gaining Momentum in Spite of Trump
The Trump administration cannot suppress the will of millions of people driving for the large structural change needed to save our species.
Dec 24, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
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The Low Point? The Low Point?
President Trump on Thursday found time to insult 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg after she was named Time’s Person of the Year, an honor he has coveted for year…
Dec 24, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
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Letters From the January 13/20, 2020, Issue Letters From the January 13/20, 2020, Issue
Is a deficit really a strength?… Sharp quills (web only)…
Dec 24, 2019 / Our Readers, Marshall Auerback, and Donna Minkowitz
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Book of Dolls 45 Book of Dolls 45
God’s carpenters are busy putting nails in the idea of heaven. Make no mistake. It’s hell. If you see my hand shake, do not worry. It is just the motion that persists, with or with…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Bond
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Grid Grid
All energy, to the engineer, or the soul, is the same. Today’s illumination might have come, way back, from either love or pain— no whiff, when the light flicked on,…
Dec 24, 2019 / Books & the Arts / James Richardson