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December 16/23, 2019, Issue
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Feature
In Virginia, Democrats won back the statehouse despite Republicans’ blatant lies.
Abortion has never been less taboo than it is today.
As abortion access in Ohio erodes, reproductive justice groups are bringing new activists to the fight.
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?
Janet Folger Porter was once deemed too radical even for conservatives. Now she’s behind a wave of “heartbeat” bans sweeping the states.
From remaking the judiciary to repealing Hyde to removing the global gag rule, Trump’s successor has their work cut out for them.
The movement for abortion access—not just rights—has arrived, and it’s winning fights across the country.
Editorial
Despite job growth, employees face daunting precarity—and they’re fed up.
The Supreme Court won’t protect abortion access anymore. But thousands of activists will.
Passed in support of the ongoing protests, its China-versus-the-West framing hurts progressive causes on all sides of the divide.
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Column
When society values the life of a fetus over that of a living person, women pay the steepest price.
Books & the Arts
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.
Mixing sacred imagery and snatches of memoir, the British artist’s new album is Magdalene a beautiful and eerie statement.
As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.
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Letters
Off base… “Can’t” versus “won’t”…