What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy
I learned from an early age that honoring an individual’s wishes for their body is a sacred act.
Jun 27, 2023 / Feature / Angela Garbes
Without Apology: Abortion in Literature Without Apology: Abortion in Literature
Some of the most powerful, important abortion narratives show working-class women terminating their pregnancies without regret or anguish.
Jun 26, 2023 / Feature / Edna Bonhomme
Matchmaker Leonard Leo Helps Unite Billionaires With Supreme Court Justices Matchmaker Leonard Leo Helps Unite Billionaires With Supreme Court Justices
High-court corruption is built on a network of plutocratic coziness.
Jun 23, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Abortion Any Time Isn’t Just a Rallying Cry—It’s True Reproductive Freedom Abortion Any Time Isn’t Just a Rallying Cry—It’s True Reproductive Freedom
A year after the fall of Roe, affordable, meaningful access to abortion throughout pregnancy remains an indispensable goal of reproductive justice for all.
Jun 23, 2023 / Feature / T.S. Mendola
Texas Could Have Taken My Trans Child Away. Here’s What I Did to Protect Our Family. Texas Could Have Taken My Trans Child Away. Here’s What I Did to Protect Our Family.
Or, how to make a “safe folder.”
Jun 15, 2023 / Karen Krajcer
War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad
In the US, so many of us do feel the painful results of our disastrous distant wars of this century, whether we know it or not.
Jun 14, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino
Can the Rich and Powerful Live Forever? Can the Rich and Powerful Live Forever?
The madness of new longevity treatments.
Jun 12, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s Time to Call Abortion Bans What They Are—Torture and Cruelty It’s Time to Call Abortion Bans What They Are—Torture and Cruelty
The US must learn from other countries where denials of abortion are considered intentional, state-inflicted torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
Jun 9, 2023 / Payal Shah and Akila Radhakrishnan
It’s Not “Unreasonable” to Want to Change Our Rotten Health Care System It’s Not “Unreasonable” to Want to Change Our Rotten Health Care System
The pandemic showed how callous, unequal, and ineffective American health care can be—but some medical bigwigs seem to want people to stop pointing that out.
Jun 1, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves
Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Dying? Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Dying?
In a country that treats disabled people like expensive burdens and that teaches people to hate and fear disabilities, activists argue that true bodily autonomy is not possible.
May 31, 2023 / Feature / Sara Luterman