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Lose Roe, lose right to privacy
Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.
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The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short
Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.
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The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them
Why democracy is its own worst enemy.
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History doesn't care if the GOP is on the wrong side
Progress is a consequence of politics.
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The mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
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Democracy isn't 'backsliding.' Equality is
Equality has been presumed in the word 'democracy' since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.
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Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal
The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.
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Stop laughing at Michael Flynn
The former Trump advisor is spearheading a project to build a violent, ultra-nationalist, ultra-Christian right to take control of America.
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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
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Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
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The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting "life." They are fearing "race suicide."
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Is the US ‘truly one nation’?
It feels good to think so.