The Next Big Fight for the Pro-Choice Movement: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions The Next Big Fight for the Pro-Choice Movement: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Once a political “third rail,” the effort to repeal the Hyde Amendment has gone mainstream.
Jul 8, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
The Pro-Choice Movement Is Finally Winning! The Pro-Choice Movement Is Finally Winning!
A new generation of activists have started talking about abortion as a normal event in women’s lives—and that’s made a huge difference.
Jul 6, 2016 / Katha Pollitt
Brexit’s Unlikely Lessons for Hillary Clinton Brexit’s Unlikely Lessons for Hillary Clinton
Ari Berman on the GOP’s war on voting rights, Zoë Carpenter on the Supreme Court and abortion, and D.D. Guttenplan on Brexit and Trump.
Jun 30, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
The Supreme Court’s Dramatic Left Turn The Supreme Court’s Dramatic Left Turn
Scalia’s death and Kennedy’s willingness to change his mind had enormous consequences.
Jun 29, 2016 / Editorial / David Cole
The Supreme Court Has Spoken: Texas Can’t Use Pseudoscience to Restrict Abortion The Supreme Court Has Spoken: Texas Can’t Use Pseudoscience to Restrict Abortion
The majority ruled that neither of two regulations on abortion providers “offers medical benefits sufficient to justify the burdens upon access that each imposes.”
Jun 27, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
VIDEO: Abortion Providers Know Who Suffers Most When Their Clinics Are Forced to Close VIDEO: Abortion Providers Know Who Suffers Most When Their Clinics Are Forced to Close
Laws across the country are increasingly restricting access to abortion. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether those laws are constitutional.
Jun 15, 2016 / Video / The Nation
If Women Were Less Poor, Would There Really Be Fewer Abortions? If Women Were Less Poor, Would There Really Be Fewer Abortions?
Reducing poverty and lowering the abortion rate are two different things—for a reason.
Jun 7, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Why Bernie Didn’t Get My Vote Why Bernie Didn’t Get My Vote
It’s not his focus on the economy—it’s that he doesn’t seem to understand that the economy is structured by gender and race.
May 4, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What Abortion Has to Do With the Minimum Wage What Abortion Has to Do With the Minimum Wage
Advocates and members of Congress want to reframe abortion as an issue of economic security.
May 2, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’? Half of the Abortion Clinics in Ohio Have Closed. And Kasich Is a ‘Moderate’?
Since when does moderate mean “one who does everything in his power to destroy women’s reproductive rights”?
Mar 31, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt