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Monday’s ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo is a victory for the status quo. The 5–4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that would have closed all but one of the state’s abortion clinics if it went into effect. Those clinics remain open; the prevailing order remains in effect. The high court’s abortion-rights precedents—especially a strikingly similar case from four years ago that concerned a similar law in Texas—pointed toward no other outcome, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote.

The first time I glanced at the images, I thought, My God, the Naval Academy is under attack. It was the only way my brain could process what I’d seen: a middle-aged white man wielding a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle, just outside the gated portico of a vast, shimmering beaux-arts structure whose lofty pillars, red-bricked decking, ornate windows, and greenery-filled terrace boxes seemed reminiscent of buildings I’d once marched to on Annapolis’s turn-of-the-nineteenth-century military campus. It didn’t seem so far-fetched... Читать дальше...

It’s common to hear the words of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in times of political unrest—particularly when this country’s destructive legacy of racism and white supremacy once again come to the fore. Echoes of King’s sonorous voice find their way into the demands of today’s Black activists, who understand the full radical power of his ideas. King’s less confrontational counsel also crops up in the Facebook posts of white moderates who eagerly embrace his message of peace but... Читать дальше...

What, exactly, counts as a women’s issue? In 1972, the activist Johnnie Tillmon famously argued in Ms. magazine that welfare was a women’s issue because the overwhelming majority of recipients were women with families, who were forced onto the program by poverty wages and then subject to sexist surveillance by both society and the state. “Survival. That’s why we had to go on welfare. And that’s why we can’t get off welfare now,” Tillmon wrote. “Not until we do something about liberating poor women in this country.” A few decades later... Читать дальше...

A vaccine for Covid-19 could hardly arrive soon enough. Level heads agree, however, that a vaccine will only be ready, in the best case, by autumn of 2021. Vaccines take time. They require an infrastructure to mass-produce and deliver on a large scale. Before they can be bought and sold, companies have to trudge through the first three of the four phases of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval process. And to get FDA approval, companies need a raw material essential for any drug or vaccine to go to market: healthy human bodies. Читать дальше...

For many people, the so-called Southern strategy was the original sin that led directly to the many racial and political problems we face today. Richard Nixon, it is said, implemented this nefarious strategy by appealing to Southern racists with coded phrases like “law and order” to gain the White House in 1968. In truth, the seeds of the Southern strategy were sown in the West 100 years earlier, as detailed in a new book by Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War. Читать дальше...

Lately, critics of the racialized maldistribution of wealth have seized on the notion of a “racial wealth gap” as a defining feature of the American political economy—and insisted that this gap has been a key factor in the radically disparate economic impact of the present Covid-19 recession across our racial divide. Yet the racial wealth gap is not the single-bullet explanation of uneven economic development in black and white America that adherents of the thesis imagine it to be. This becomes... Читать дальше...

The Trump administration’s response to a pandemic that has killed more than 120,000 Americans and forced much of the country into a devastating economic slowdown has been a massive failure, leading to new levels of anger and disappointment at the president. But none of that has stopped Donald Trump and his aides from rolling back as many environmental protections as they possibly can.