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There’s one clear reason why the right has spent much of the last week fulminating over a leak of a draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade: It’s the easiest way to not have to talk about the fact that Roe is about to be overturned. As I argued earlier this week, part of that focus is a desperate, bad-faith effort to protect the legitimacy of the court—the right’s decades-long takeover of the American legal system is dependent on it being seen as legitimate and apolitical in the eyes of voters. Читать дальше...

Moscow Mitch just handed Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi the biggest gift they could imagine. Will they open it and seize on it?

Should the leaked draft decision that recently ended up in the hands of reporters at Politico eventually become the majority holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—and thus overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two landmark decisions that currently undergird the right to an abortion—the country will face immediate upheaval across the legal landscape as rights that women have held for decades suddenly vanish. And it’s not a stretch to emphasize how immediately American life is going to change. Читать дальше...

In the summer of 2007, Donald Trump—his businesses in ruin, hanging on to relevance for dear life via The Apprentice—cut an advertisement to introduce his newest namesake product. “When it comes to great steaks, I’ve just raised the stakes!” Trump says, sitting in his midtown office in front of stacks of black-and-gold boxes. “Trump Steaks are by far the best tasting, most flavorful beef you’ve ever had. Truly in a league of their own.”

Aaron Campbell has known for most of his life that he wanted to be an OB-GYN. When he was 14, in 2005, he dressed up as a doctor for Halloween. It wasn’t a terribly difficult costume to put together, since his father, Morris Campbell, was the medical director at the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, now the eastern Tennessee city’s sole independent abortion clinic. Sure, there was that double major in philosophy when Campbell was a student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but... Читать дальше...