Letters From the February 2024 Issue Letters From the February 2024 Issue
Modern midwifery… Idle laws…
Feb 20, 2024 / Our Readers
There Is Only One Way for Biden to Fulfill His Promise to “Restore Roe” There Is Only One Way for Biden to Fulfill His Promise to “Restore Roe”
If the president truly wants to protect reproductive rights, he’s going to have to do what he’s so far refused even to consider: expand the Supreme Court.
Feb 20, 2024 / Column / Elie Mystal
The Magic of Reading Bernard Malamud The Magic of Reading Bernard Malamud
His work, unlike that of Bellow or Roth, focused on the lives of often impoverished Jews in Brooklyn and the Bronx and bestowed on them a literary magic.
Feb 20, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Black History, All Year Black History, All Year
Acknowledging the history and perspective of Black people in America should be a daily practice.
Feb 19, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November? Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November?
Not only is Florida the last bastion of abortion access in the Southeast, it’s a state with the third highest number of electoral votes and a memorable record of swinging president...
Feb 19, 2024 / Amy Littlefield
What Happened to the Democratic Majority? What Happened to the Democratic Majority?
Today the march of class dealignment feels like an inexorable fact of American political life. But is it?
Feb 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Karp
The Invisible Labor of Women Who Love Incarcerated People The Invisible Labor of Women Who Love Incarcerated People
There are few things more important for people in prison than keeping links with the outside world. That task falls overwhelmingly to women.
Feb 19, 2024 / Rachel Zarrow and Christopher Blackwell
Trump Gets (Almost) the New York Business Death Penalty Trump Gets (Almost) the New York Business Death Penalty
The crime family is paying for its real estate sins. Eventually, we hope, Trump will pay for more than that.
Feb 16, 2024 / Joan Walsh
