December 16/23, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Blue Lens, LLC / Mark Dixon (photo)

Feature

Republican Attacks on Abortion Don’t Send Democrats Running Scared Anymore

In Virginia, Democrats won back the statehouse despite Republicans’ blatant lies.
Joan Walsh
The Pro-Choice Movement Has Won the Culture War

Abortion has never been less taboo than it is today.
Moira Donegan
What Does Reproductive Justice Activism Look Like As Clinics Close?

As abortion access in Ohio erodes, reproductive justice groups are bringing new activists to the fight.
Dani McClain
Meet the Prosecutors Resisting America’s Frightening New Abortion Bans

A group of progressive attorneys is refusing to enforce new abortion laws. But in a legal landscape so hostile to choice, is deliberate inaction enough?
Cynthia Greenlee
Meet the Fringe Zealot Behind One of the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Abortion Measures

Janet Folger Porter was once deemed too radical even for conservatives. Now she’s behind a wave of “heartbeat” bans sweeping the states.
Zoë Carpenter
How the Next President Can Expand Reproductive Freedom

From remaking the judiciary to repealing Hyde to removing the global gag rule, Trump’s successor has their work cut out for them.
Ilyse Hogue
How Abortion Funds Showed America That ‘Roe’ Is Not Enough

The movement for abortion access—not just rights—has arrived, and it’s winning fights across the country.
Amy Littlefield

Editorial

Workers Are Heading Back to the Picket Lines

Despite job growth, employees face daunting precarity—and they’re fed up.
Bryce Covert
The Politics of Abortion Is Entering a New Era

The Supreme Court won’t protect abortion access anymore. But thousands of activists will.
Emily Douglas
Congress’s Hong Kong Bill Is Giving Cover to Nationalism

Passed in support of the ongoing protests, its China-versus-the-West framing hurts progressive causes on all sides of the divide.
Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
Comix Nation

Peter Kuper
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Books & the Arts

Eric Foner’s Story of American Freedom

Charting the ironies of freedom won and lost during and after the Civil War, the American historian has also helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.
Michael Kazin
FKA Twigs, High Priestess of Pop Music’s Avant-Garde

Mixing sacred imagery and snatches of memoir, the British artist’s new album is Magdalene a beautiful and eerie statement.
Julyssa Lopez
From ‘Diary’

Marisa Crawford
Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power

As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.
Namwali Serpell
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