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Crowd at a rally for a ballot measure for reproductive rights in Michigan

Get Ready for More Ballot Initiatives to Restore Abortion Rights in Red States Get Ready for More Ballot Initiatives to Restore Abortion Rights in Red States

There’s a cavernous gap between public support for reproductive rights and the restrictions pushed by deep-red states. Ballot initiatives are one way to fight back.

Nov 17, 2022 / Amy Littlefield

I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.

I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You. I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.

Twitter is an effective tool for challenging the status quo and powerful people and institutions. That’s why Elon Musk snatched it up.

Nov 16, 2022 / Olayemi Olurin

Close Rikers

Close Rikers Close Rikers

Street demonstration, downtown Manhattan, November 3, 2022, organized by CampaignToCloseRikers.org. Eighteen people have died in Rikers Island this year, the deadliest since 2013.

Nov 16, 2022 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo and Steve Brodner

A poll worker

In the War Against Voting, Poll Workers Are on the Front Lines In the War Against Voting, Poll Workers Are on the Front Lines

During the 2022 midterms, election officials faced an unprecedented level of harassment. After the Republicans' poor performance, antidemocratic conspiracies will only become more ...

Nov 16, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia

Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia Michelle de Kretser’s Unsettled Australia

Her novels examine how migration and globalization have changed the country's identity and relation to the rest of the world.

Nov 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nawal Arjini

Democrats Should Use This Moment to Codify “Roe v. Wade”

Democrats Should Use This Moment to Codify “Roe v. Wade” Democrats Should Use This Moment to Codify “Roe v. Wade”

The midterms proved that Americans support abortion rights, and Democrats should enshrine them—even though the Supreme Court will promptly strike them down.

Nov 15, 2022 / Elie Mystal

David Lambourne sits in a tropical shirt alongside some luggage.

Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court Kiribati’s Disorder in the Court

The Pacific island nation's attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.

Nov 15, 2022 / Pete McKenzie

A police car on a chase

White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police

If Biden cares about what he calls the white supremacist “poison…running through our body politic,” his administration had better get busy purging the strain that courses through t...

Nov 15, 2022 / Column / Kali Holloway

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) speaks at a press conference to discuss his runoff campaign in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 10, 2022.

Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy Georgia Isn’t Just Gravy

Democrats can do a lot more with 51 Senate seats.

Nov 14, 2022 / Jeet Heer

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

Patrick Julney is one of many longtime US residents who found himself detained under hellish conditions in a country in which he’d never been formally charged with a crime.

Nov 14, 2022 / Feature / Tanvi Misra

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