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Every American knows about Roe v. Wade. It’s one of a handful of Supreme Court cases, along with Brown v. Board of Education and Bush v. Gore, that can be mentioned in journalistic writing without having to describe what the case was about. Fewer Americans are probably familiar with Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that rewrote Roe and set us on the course to Wednesday’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take up the Mississippi law that many legal experts expect eventually to overturn Roe v. Wade or at least make it obsolete. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, addresses a Mississippi law that prohibits abortion 15 weeks after “the first day of the last menstrual period,” an interval during which many people would not yet realize they were pregnant at all. Mainstream medical experts tend to measure “fetal viability”—the point at which a... Читать дальше...

Democrats are beginning to shift their focus from appealing to a party of two moderate senators to trying to better connect Joe Biden to the popular parts of his infrastructure and public investment bill.  

“When World War II came to an end,” Monica Black notes, “Germany lay in ruins. Entire cities had been shattered by bombs and artillery, expanses of land left bare where every tree had been cut down for fuel, parts of the country practically erased.” For 12 years, Germans had lived under a regime that had shaped their lives in ways so intense that large numbers of them could not imagine a life without Hitler and the Nazi Party and killed themselves in one of the greatest waves of mass suicide in history. Читать дальше...

In Kyle Rittenhouse’s first interview following being acquitted of all charges after killing two and seriously wounding another during last summer’s unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he insisted that he had been fundamentally and intentionally misunderstood by the media. Speaking to Tucker Carlson last week, Rittenhouse signaled allyship with the Black Lives Matter movement and insisted those alleged to have looted and committed violent acts in Kenosha were “opportunists, taking advantage of the BLM... Читать дальше...

Republicans have a secret: For all their professed horror of it, they adore inflation.

As the world learned of the omicron variant of the coronavirus last week, Western leaders responded in predictably counterproductive ways, banning flights to the region of Africa where the variant was first discovered—but too late to stop it from spreading around the world. It remains to be seen whether omicron is so dangerous that it will cause disease and deaths to spike and send us back to an earlier stage of the pandemic. But even if omicron isn’t the worst-case scenario, the worst-case scenario will come sooner or later... Читать дальше...