JD Vance Is Couching His Misogyny in a Fake Cat Fight
Trump’s ghoulish VP pick is awful at selling the GOP’s terrifyingly regressive platform. He’s even worse at taking potshots at VP Harris and her exciting presidential campaign.
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The Mifepristone Battle Isn’t Over Yet
On the eve of Dobbs’s second anniversary, we celebrated a small victory with the mifepristone decision. But the time is now for Dems to make a preemptive strike to protect abortion rights before SCOTUS takes another swing at them.
Twelve NY Jurors Did What the Media Won’t
Trump has always shown us who he is. But neither mainstream news outlets nor GOP lawmakers would do what a dozen brave New Yorkers did yesterday: Call it like they saw it and hold the former president to account.
Justice Alito’s Politics Are Literally Flying in Our Faces
The Supreme Court judge has been flouting his duties, flying insurrectionist flags at his home while refusing to recuse himself from cases deciding the future of democracy in America. So what are we going to do about it?
Trump Employs an Abuser’s Approach to Abortion Rights
The GOP presidential candidate has promised to punish and prosecute anyone who has an abortion. For those who've experienced domestic violence, these tactics feel all too familiar.
Hiring Ronna McDaniel Is a Symptom of Our Media Literacy Crisis
Journalism is a vital part of a healthy society, and we not only need to fund and sustain it—we need to defend it. But we also need to listen to news consumers, because the media industry is terribly broken.
The War on Women Didn’t Stop With Overturning Roe
From bounty-hunters to “fetal personhood” bills, GOP state lawmakers are finding new ways to criminalize not only terminating pregnancies, but nearly all forms of bodily autonomy.
Anti-Abortion Folks Want Us to Feel Hopeless. Don’t!
Since the overturning of Roe—which would have celebrated its 51st anniversary yesterday—the GOP has been threatening our bodily autonomy at every level. Here are 7 effective ways to fend off their attacks—and win.
We’ve Gone Censorship Mad
For a nation that prides itself on its freedom of speech, we are banning books, firing intellectuals, censuring lawmakers, and terrorizing communities on both sides of the aisle for expressing opinions and disseminating facts that make some of us uncomfortable.
Getting the News Has Never Been More Complicated
An imploding mediascape has driven independent journalists to publish their work in newsletters like Substack. But a la carte news is not a sustainable model for anyone.