Новости за 02.12.2021

Reform of the state abortion laws is not a popular cause even though these statutes result in extraordinary inhumanity when they are enforced, and lead to spurious medical practice when disregarded, as they commonly are. In practice, abortion is treated as illegal throughout the country unless the operation is undertaken to save the mother’s life. This has meant that zealous hospitals have refused to abort a 14-year-old girl impregnated by her father, a woman raped on the street by a man she had never seen... Читать дальше...

If in fact the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade next June, who is to blame? Some people say that when disaster strikes, casting about for blame is an unproductive exercise. Oh, no. Not in this case. This is a looming calamity not just for women and their bodily autonomy but potentially for broadly shared personal freedoms more generally, for the Fourteenth Amendment, for the Supreme Court, and much more. If there ever was a moment for blame, it’s now.

December is a jam-packed month for the Senate, with the legislative Advent calendar including such treats as must-pass government funding and defense authorization bills and President Joe Biden’s social spending, tax, and climate bill. But in the midst of considering these priorities, Senate Democrats are also mulling how they can pass critical voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster.

As voting came to a close in Honduras’s presidential election this Sunday, there were still those who doubted things could somehow end peacefully. They had reason to worry: During the previous elections, in 2017, the theft of the vote by the corruption-stained ruling National Party had been so blatant and the repression that followed so savage and murderous, many believed this time around there was no way that opposition candidate Xiomara Castro would be allowed to win fairly, despite her overwhelming popularity. Читать дальше...

On Tuesday, CNN finally did what it should have done many months ago: It took Chris Cuomo off the air. Since the spring, the cable news network had stood idly by, even after a series of reports revealed that Chris’s involvement in advising his brother—disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—amid his many sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, had gone much further than previously disclosed. This week, the scandal ratcheted up even more after reports circulated that Chris had been... Читать дальше...

Dismantling segregation in the United States has proven exceedingly difficult. In 1966, when Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow marchers were pelted with rocks and bottles in a fair housing demonstration in Chicago, King said he saw a level of hatred far greater than in campaigns for voting rights or nondiscrimination in employment. King persisted, Sheryll Cashin writes in her searing new book, White Space, Black Hood, because he and others knew that housing segregation was the fountainhead of so many other inequities... Читать дальше...

Last month, Representative Peter Welch of Vermont announced that he would run to succeed Senator Patrick Leahy, after the longest-serving senator and famed Batman enthusiast announced his retirement. Welch, Vermont’s at-large representative, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the still wide-open race and has already been endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders.

“Conservatism in 2021 means radicalism,” announced Nate Hochman, a 23-year-old writer at National Review. Describing the posture of his political milieu, Hochman spoke with urgency and without pretense, less eager to impress than to be understood. “We have to think of ourselves as counterrevolutionaries or restorationists who are overthrowing the regime.” He doesn’t mean by violence, necessarily. “But … there’s not a lot left to conserve in the contemporary state of things. There are things that... Читать дальше...