Gavin Newsom’s Gun Stunt Is Inspired—and Doomed to Fail Gavin Newsom’s Gun Stunt Is Inspired—and Doomed to Fail
There is little chance the conservatives on the Supreme Court will let California treat gun manufacturers the way it’s letting Texas treat pregnant people.
Dec 14, 2021 / Elie Mystal
The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Ruling Isn’t the Victory Many Want It to Be The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Ruling Isn’t the Victory Many Want It to Be
Sonia Sotomayor said it best: “The Court should have put an end to this madness months ago.… It failed to do so [earlier], and it fails again today.”
Dec 10, 2021 / Elie Mystal
What Will It Take to Build a Mass Movement for Abortion Rights? What Will It Take to Build a Mass Movement for Abortion Rights?
It’s time to turn a committed core of supporters into a force capable of reclaiming what has been lost.
Dec 9, 2021 / Editorial / Amy Littlefield for The Nation
The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy The Right’s Bad-Faith Argument About Bodily Autonomy
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines.
Dec 8, 2021 / David M. Perry
What We Get Wrong About Adoption What We Get Wrong About Adoption
Activists and political leaders promote adoption as a social good, looking past the complex experiences of adoptees and the parents who relinquish them.
Dec 7, 2021 / Gretchen Sisson and Jessica M. Harrison
We Are Witnessing the End of “Roe v. Wade” We Are Witnessing the End of “Roe v. Wade”
If there is one lesson to be learned from yesterday’s Dobbs hearing, it is that the Supreme Court will gut abortion rights, one way or another.
Dec 2, 2021 / Elie Mystal
Thinking Beyond “Roe” Thinking Beyond “Roe”
If Supreme Court rules as expected, a group of committed abortion rights supporters is ready to fight to “liberate abortion.”
Dec 2, 2021 / Amy Littlefield
The Christian Legal Army Behind the Ban on Abortion in Mississippi The Christian Legal Army Behind the Ban on Abortion in Mississippi
The Alliance Defending Freedom has been laying the groundwork to end legal abortion for years. But that’s just the beginning.
Nov 30, 2021 / Amy Littlefield
A Cop Is Finally in Trouble for Using Excessive Force—Against Dogs A Cop Is Finally in Trouble for Using Excessive Force—Against Dogs
Why can’t we expect at least this much from the courts when it comes to Black people?
Nov 17, 2021 / Column / Elie Mystal
As the Supreme Court Weighs the Future of Abortion, Women Are Already Suffering As the Supreme Court Weighs the Future of Abortion, Women Are Already Suffering
Attacks on reproductive rights have metastasized well beyond abortion in recent years, endangering women’s health and lives.
Nov 12, 2021 / Editorial / Michele Goodwin