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The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths

The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths

“When you deny people the opportunity to have a safe abortion procedure and replace it with the higher risk of continuing pregnancies, more people are going to die.”

Jan 13, 2022 / Mary Tuma

Drone Strikes

Automated Warfare Is Nothing New Automated Warfare Is Nothing New

It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.

Jan 13, 2022 / Rebecca Gordon

Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot

Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot Madison Cawthorn’s Incitement of Insurrection Should Knock Him Off the Ballot

The Republican representative’s words and deeds disqualify him from office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Jan 13, 2022 / John Nichols

Author Kathy Acker

Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker

In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.

Jan 13, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights

Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights Lani Guinier Taught Me Almost Everything I Know About Voting Rights

A brilliant professor, she showed me how the old Confederacy never really gave up—not after the Civil War, not after the Voting Rights Act, not ever.

Jan 12, 2022 / Elie Mystal

Statues Down!

Statues Down! Statues Down!

A changing of the guard.

Jan 12, 2022 / OppArt / Mohsin Mohi Ud Din

Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering

Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering

The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.

Jan 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Marina Magloire

Dakota Access Pipeline Protest

It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change It’s Time to Hold Law Firms Accountable for Their Role in Climate Change

Students are boycotting Gibson Dunn for representing the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, undermining the Indian Child Welfare Act, and more.

Jan 12, 2022 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona and David Cremins

Biden at Fort Bragg

The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises The “Credibility” Factor and Biden’s Foreign Crises

The US must resist the impulse to intervene in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran.

Jan 12, 2022 / Michael T. Klare

How the Left Alienates Jews

How the Left Alienates Jews How the Left Alienates Jews

Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should be leading.

Jan 12, 2022 / Column / Alexis Grenell

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