Katha Pollitt on How to Protect Abortion Rights and Kelly Lytle Hernandez on “Bad Mexicans”

Katha Pollitt on How to Protect Abortion Rights and Kelly Lytle Hernandez on Bad Mexicans

Writers join the Start Making Sense podcast for discussions on protecting reproductive freedom and for a tale about revolutionaries in 1910 who fought on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

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The Supreme Court’s coming repeal of constitutional protection for abortion leaves us with a lot of work to do—to protect and expand abortion rights in the states where it will remain legal, and to help women in states where it will be banned. Katha Pollitt joins the Start Making Sense podcast to explain what we need to do now—in politics, health care, and funding.

Plus: “Bad Mexicans”—that what the revolutionaries of 1910 were called as they fought on both sides of the US-Mexico border against the robber barons and their political allies. UCLA historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez tells that story, which is the subject of her new book.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


Start Making Sense Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.  


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