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Facing embarrassingly weak test case, has SCOTUS' rightwing supermajority lost its nerve?
The current bid to yank mifepristone off the market is legal hackery whose sponsors deserve points only for shrewd venue-shopping.
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Think you understand Trump’s relationship with white evangelicals? Think again
Post-Roe, they’re still figuring out new ways of talking about old agreements over the proper role of women in American society.
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Why is Justice Clarence Thomas telling us he’s above the law?
There’s no downside to telling the truth.
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Should Feinstein resign? No
Progressives are dogpiling her, because they sense weakness.
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Why won’t Post columnist EJ Dionne say what needs saying?
It's probably a generational thing.
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How southern states export the effects of their gun laws, project power and dominate America
America’s “broader public opinion" means nothing to them.
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Pity Howard Schultz, the poor billionaire
A Senate committee was mean to him.
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Clarence Thomas keeps telling on himself. Are we listening?
He continues to think we’re fools, too.
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On 'big government,' the GOP has changed its mind
The biggest BFD in politics right now.
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The great white cope
Think Trump is damaged? Meet Mickey Mouse’s harasser.
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They want to outlaw the abortion pill, but they don’t want liberal states to protect their sovereignty. Guess what?
Rightwing politics presumes there won’t be a reaction.
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Blue states are moving to protect abortion rights and trans rights against a red state power grab
The far right refined a common playbook for projecting the power of red states beyond their borders, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.