The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency
Biden’s move to ban Russian oil imports shows he can act boldly when he wants to.
Mar 11, 2022 / Jean Su and Maya Golden-Krasner
Congress Is Eager to Sanction Russia, Whatever the Cost Congress Is Eager to Sanction Russia, Whatever the Cost
With an unprecedented array of sudden financial restrictions, ordinary Russians are carrying the burden of the global conflict.
Mar 11, 2022 / Aída Chávez
The Overlooked Strategies of the Anti-Abortion Movement The Overlooked Strategies of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The movement and its ideological predecessors have spent centuries honing reproductive control tactics, from forced pregnancy to sterilization to criminalization.
Mar 11, 2022 / Michele Goodwin
Why Is Biden Letting States Like Missouri Defund Planned Parenthood? Why Is Biden Letting States Like Missouri Defund Planned Parenthood?
Missouri is poised to be the fourth state to strip Medicaid reimbursements from the reproductive health provider. So far, the Biden administration has not enforced the law that wou...
Mar 10, 2022 / Amy Littlefield
Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry
Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.
Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot
The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic
Structural violence, social murder, and our national policy of organized abandonment.
Mar 10, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
Religious Objectors to LGBTQ Equality Will Return to the Supreme Court Religious Objectors to LGBTQ Equality Will Return to the Supreme Court
Advocates will ask the court to protect faith-based objections to laws they find objectionable through the First Amendment’s Free Speech clause.
Mar 9, 2022 / Katherine Franke
Is Manchin Duping Democrats Again? Is Manchin Duping Democrats Again?
The omnipotent senator is said to be floating a new inflation-busting package. But he insists there are “no formal talks.” How is that going to work?
Mar 8, 2022 / Joan Walsh
Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good
With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn't be higher.
Mar 8, 2022 / Eric Blanc