Gender and Sexuality

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These Cities and States Are Fighting the Tide and Expanding Abortion Access These Cities and States Are Fighting the Tide and Expanding Abortion Access

For decades, the anti-choice movement has focused on state- and local-level victories. Now, the abortion-rights movement is too.

Sep 24, 2021 / Amy Littlefield

The Virginia State Capitol

A Tough Candidate Forum in Virginia Previews the GOP Playbook for 2022 A Tough Candidate Forum in Virginia Previews the GOP Playbook for 2022

Democratic delegate Nancy Guy is facing an über-Trumper using culture war garbage against her. And it could work.

Sep 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Osama bin Laden Newspapers

Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance Pick Up the Stone: The American Way of Vengeance

The line from defeat in Afghanistan to deputizing bounty hunters in Texas can be traced in blood—and history.

Sep 22, 2021 / John Scagliotti and JoAnn Wypijewski

Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction

Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction

In her new novel, Wayward, Spiotta offers an intricate portrait of how one woman experienced the uncertain days and months after Trump’s election.

Sep 22, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick

Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since Occupy Wall Street

Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since Occupy Wall Street Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since Occupy Wall Street

Dozens of Zuccotti Park activists pushed the movement to confront race and gender oppression—and have continued that work in the decade since.

Sep 20, 2021 / Feature / Sarah M. Seltzer

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There’s No Good Reason FBI Director Chris Wray Still Has a Job There’s No Good Reason FBI Director Chris Wray Still Has a Job

Wray has a pattern of refusing to pursue powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh and Larry Nassar on behalf of women and people of color.

Sep 17, 2021 / Elie Mystal

How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas

How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas

Elisa Wells, a Plan C cofounder, discusses the future of reproductive care after SB 8.

Sep 17, 2021 / Q&A / Gloria Oladipo

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Problem Solved Problem Solved

Just don’t have sex in Texas. You’re welcome!

Sep 15, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow

Texas Abortion

Boycott Texas Boycott Texas

The rest of the country needs to take decisive action to stop the state’s appalling new abortion law.

Sep 14, 2021 / Katha Pollitt

Senator Susan Collins

Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas’s Abortion Ban Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas’s Abortion Ban

Collins cleared the way for Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, and Kavanaugh cleared the way for this new assault on reproductive rights.

Sep 10, 2021 / John Nichols

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