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The 14th Amendment does not make abortion unconstitutional
There’s little evidence writers of the 14th Amendment considered fetuses or abortion or pregnancy or really even women.
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Why is anti-vaccination emerging as a distinctly right-wing phenomenon across the globe?
They were made for each other.
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If millions can't afford roofs over their heads, the floor will fall out from under the country's feet
We cannot continue to choose this broken system.
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The next time the GOP attempts a coup d'état, it won't be loud. It will be quiet. It will be legal
The press and pundit corps should assume this in all political discourse.
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At his best and most useful
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We can enrage liars by telling them the truth or we can neutralize them by telling them to stop lying
The choice is ours. Time is running out.
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People who desire a leader to save them from the humiliations of democracy are people who will do what they're told
No, you're wrong. The authoritarians among us do not want freedom.
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The Harvey Weinstein of politics
The most damning account of sexual predation by a public official in living memory.
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Is the era of NIMBYism giving way to a new era of YIMBYism? Data suggests big changes ahead
The old arguments no longer hold up, writes Christopher Jon Sprigman.
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Toxic masculinity is killing us
Whether the obsession with guns or refusal of vaccines.
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Here's why a vaccine mandate would convince authoritarian holdouts to get the shot voluntarily
The key is understanding what they fear.
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We conquered the moon, the genome and the microchip. We can't get people vaccinated?
What’s killing us, literally, is a stunning lack of ideas.