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Editorial

A sign reading

We Need a New Body Politics

Our new special issue is about one thing: defending the right of everyone to be able to do what he or she or they want with their own body, free from political constraint.

Emily Douglas and Regina Mahone for The Nation

Resources: What You Can Do

The activists connecting patients to abortion care need you.

How the Supreme Court Got This Powerful

It goes all the way back to Marbury v. Madison.

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2023.

A Forum on “Dobbs”: “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”

One year after the overturning of Roe, contributors in the Nation-verse have much to say about its impact.

Various Contributors

Column

Kennedy Welcoming The Leaders Of The 1963 Civil Rights March On Washington

From Full Employment to Racial Democracy

In the second half of the 20th century, Black politics began to shift away from its focus on economic inequality.

Adolph Reed Jr.

Supporters of affirmative action rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on October 31, 2022.

Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Court’s Crosshairs

And the man who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.

Sean O'Brien at a Bernie Sanders ralley

Contract Talks by Teamsters and the UAW Have the Potential to Change Our Politics

Upcoming negotiations by these two unions could swing the 2024 election—and help rebuild democracy.

Subscribers Only Trump Stored Some Documents in the Bathroom

Feature

“The Message They’ve Received Is That You Don’t Deserve to Be Cared For”: Life on the Abortion Borderland

Patients seeking abortions are flooding across state lines—while anti-abortion activists try to shut clinics down.

Amy Littlefield

Abortion Any Time Isn’t Just a Rallying Cry—It’s True Reproductive Freedom

A year after the fall of Roe, affordable, meaningful access to abortion throughout pregnancy remains an indispensable goal of reproductive justice for all.

In the Attacks on Trans Rights, We’re Seeing the Rise of a New Confederacy

These legislative assaults constitute the spear tip of a nation within a nation, threatening the foundations of democracy.

Justyna Wydrzyńska

The Conviction of Justyna Wydrzyńska

The Polish activist became the first person in Europe to be convicted for helping another woman get an abortion—and galvanized a movement behind her.

Without Apology: Abortion in Literature

Some of the most powerful, important abortion narratives show working-class women terminating their pregnancies without regret or anguish.

When Teens Send Nudes

Teenagers are sexting. Their parents are afraid. How can they find a middle ground for a better, safer way forward?

What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy

I learned from an early age that honoring an individual’s wishes for their body is a sacred act.

The Embodied Politics of Black Motherhood

Alienating Black women from our bodies is a strategy for domination. Yet we continue to rise and resist.

Michal Kaliszan and his mother at Michal's graduation from the University of Waterloo, where he studied computer science.

When Death Is the Best Choice, Is It a Choice at All?

Disabled Canadians need support, but without proper government funding, voluntary death through MAID may be their only option.

Books & the Arts

The Long and Sometimes Lost History of Trans

To borrow a phrase from the photographer and activist Samra Habib, “We have always been here”—or, at least, people somewhat like us have always been here.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933.

When FDR Took On the Supreme Court

The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?

John Fabian Witt

Don DeLillo’s Cold Wars

His 1980s novels take the story of America’s postwar years, usually seen as a triumphal rise to perpetual dominance, and converts it into one about a long and chaotic decline.

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