The GOP’s War on Obamacare Is Screwing Up Its War on Abortion
The Supreme Court was eager to revoke reproductive rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in part so that Republican governors and legislatures would be free to come up with...
View ArticleRepublicans Want You to Forget Their Complicity in the Nashville Shooting
The mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, which left six people dead, including three 9-year-olds, was the 13th school shooting this year that led to injury or death....
View ArticleDonald Trump Has Been Indicted. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.
Late Thursday evening, a Manhattan grand jury voted to bring charges against former president Donald Trump in connection with hush-money payments to actress Stormy Daniels. The specific charges are not...
View ArticleOne of America’s Worst Judges Just Gutted a Key Part of Obamacare
One of the most important parts of the Affordable Care Act is its requirement that insurance companies cover preventive care. As we approach a full generation of people who have come of age under the...
View ArticleTrump’s Indictment Is a Slap on the Wrist, but Accountability Has to Start...
It finally happened: Former president Donald Trump was charged this afternoon with 34 counts of falsifying business records by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In a spectacle that played out...
View ArticleA Zealot Judge Has Ordered a Nationwide Abortion Pill Ban
United States District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk outlawed distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone in a 67-page ruling Friday evening. The order revokes the Food and Drug Administration’s...
View ArticleClarence Thomas Doesn’t Have to Be Bribed to Shred Basic Rights and Democracy
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been an ethical disaster at least since he was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1991. He achieved official disaster status when Anita Hill accused him of...
View ArticleTrump Is Fighting His Indictment Like a Lawless Thug
Ever since Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Trump has responded by attacking Bragg as well as the district attorney’s...
View ArticleThe Fifth Circuit’s Abortion Pill Ruling Was All About Sowing Confusion
Judges are political actors. They want to be treated like apolitical legal scholars, merely divining legal principles from above the political fray, but most often their decisions cannot be understood...
View ArticleThe Lesson of the Dominion Suit? Corporations Won’t Save Us From Fox.
This week, Dominion Voting Systems settled its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News Corp for $787.5 million. The settlement was reached just before lawyers for the two sides made opening...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Has Preserved Access to the Abortion Pill—Over Alito’s...
Two weeks after Texas District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a nationwide ban on the abortion pill mifepristone—revoking the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug from 2000—the Supreme...
View ArticleWhat I’ll Remember Most About Tucker Carlson? His Ability to Unleash the Haters.
Nothing in my professional life has frustrated my ability to work as much as having my words attacked by Tucker Carlson. I’ve been called out by Sean Hannity and quoted out of context in the pages of...
View ArticleDemocrats Respond to the Festering Supreme Court Rot by… Calling a Hearing
Do the Democrats have a coherent strategy to address the ethical rot oozing from the Republican-controlled Supreme Court? Do they have any strategy, coherent or discombobulated, at all? Do they want...
View ArticleTennessee Republicans Are Showing Exactly How Deep American Racism Goes
I’ve been a Black person in this country for 44 years. There is very little about racism that still surprises me. Indeed, being able to anticipate what racist white folks will do next is an essential...
View ArticleOne Man Killed Jordan Neely—but We All Failed Him
A man was choked to death on the F train in New York City this week. The victim, who appeared to be homeless, was allegedly being “hostile and erratic” on the subway, but he wasn’t being violent. He...
View ArticleVigilante Killings on the Subway Are Not Legal or Moral
Daniel Penny, the man who choked another man to death on the F train on May 1, was finally arrested and charged with a crime late last week. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Penny with...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Has Decided Not to Break the Internet—Yet
The Supreme Court released opinions on two major social media cases on Thursday, and the justices unanimously decided to not break the Internet. The court could have used the cases to hold social media...
View ArticleIf Ken Paxton’s Staff Can Do It, Why Can’t Dianne Feinstein’s?
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been in office since 2015, and since 2015 he has been one of the most destructive forces in American law. He’s used his office as a Republican wish-fulfillment...
View ArticleThis Is Not the End of the Supreme Court’s War on Labor
Nobody should be surprised that this Supreme Court, controlled as it is by Republicans, is viciously anti-labor. We’d have to go back more than 100 years, to before the New Deal, to find a collection...
View ArticleThe Right’s War on Drag Is Flagrantly Unconstitutional
I was driving my family home after seeing the live-action Little Mermaid, and I offhandedly said to my wife, “The only thing that could have made that movie more inclusive was if Ursula was played by a...
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