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J.D. Vance, the former globalist and current America Firster, completed an improbable comeback on Tuesday, winning an Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate despite trailing by a wide margin for most of the race. But the real victor in the race was Donald Trump—and the most telling loser was not the runner-up, Josh Mandel.

Over her nine years of escorting patients to the Tulsa Women’s Center—Tulsa’s only independent abortion clinic—Susan Braselton has noticed an alarming increase in the aggression of the protesters outside her clinic. These protesters—who are associated with churches as far away as Muskogee, as well as in Missouri and Kansas—became vitriolic first around Donald Trump’s presidency and then, more recently, at the passage of the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban, in Texas, last September, and on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Dobbs v. Читать дальше...

The MAGA circus was back in town on Tuesday night, my town of Cincinnati, this time in the person of past and more recent Ohioan J.D. Vance, looking to secure the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.

The publication by Politico’s Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward of Justice Samuel Alito’s February draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey confirms the reactionary nature of the current Supreme Court majority. The salient fact about this majority isn’t that it’s a Republican-appointed majority. It’s that it’s an Electoral College majority. 

In the 1940s, the pesticide DDT exploded in popularity. Corporations and governments sprayed the chemical for decades, ignoring warnings that it might poison the environment and endanger human health—until countries finally began outlawing its use for precisely those reasons. On episode 47 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with Elena Conis, the author of How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT. They explore how corporations dismissed the dangers of DDT to protect profits... Читать дальше...

“I feel like Senate Democrats care exponentially less about keeping my doctors out of jail than Republicans care about putting them there.” 

In January, Roe v. Wade will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. In the meantime, as the United States Supreme Court deliberates over whether to support or disarm the 1973 ruling, the nation watches and waits. I am the former attorney for Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the case, better known as Jane Roe, and I have profound concerns—not for history, for the future. My co-counsel Sarah Weddington and I forged for American women the right to privacy, not just in abortion law, but in all parts of one’s personal life. Читать дальше...