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Last week, the near-total abortion ban in Texas was blocked and unblocked in just under 48 hours. On October 6, federal judge Robert Pitman ordered an injunction, requested by the Justice Department, on Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions well before many people know they are pregnant. Not long after, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, implored by the state of Texas, granted an administrative stay on Pitman’s ruling, effectively suspending it. That night, Attorney General Ken Paxton, leading the war on abortions with blithe gusto... Читать дальше...

It was a historic day, decades in the making. Last Wednesday, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine for children in sub-Saharan Africa. Global health experts hailed it as an important move forward that would save thousands of lives. But they also wondered: What took so long? 

There are Democrats I admire tremendously, like my own Congressman Jamie Raskin, and there are Democrats I’m not crazy about. But there’s only one Democrat for whom I wish future defeat, scandal, and humiliation, and I bet you can guess who that is.

The night of September 1, when Hurricane Ida arrived in New York City, Wanda Mathis heard a noise in the bathroom. She went in to check it out and saw water “gushing from the bathroom light. It was just sliding all over the walls, falling heavy, like we were outside,” she said. Water leaked down into her bedroom, pouring out of her closet. Mathis and her son have lived in their building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for more than 20 years, and her elderly mother was staying with them when the storm hit. Читать дальше...

It is perilous for a person to become a political symbol. Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff at the center of Roe v. Wade, knew perhaps better than anyone the difficulties of representing something much larger than herself. When she stepped into public view, identifying herself as Jane Roe, she became an important voice in the pro-choice movement—the woman who carried her own unwanted pregnancy to term in order to secure the rights of millions of women not to. Later, she made a shocking conversion... Читать дальше...