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Americans may have been surprised to learn on Wednesday that requiring insurers to cover HIV-prevention medication is not a “compelling government interest.” Federal judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee in Texas’s Northern District, ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s mandated coverage of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, violated the religious liberty of a Christian-owned business, Braidwood Management. Braidwood’s owner, Steven Hotze, had argued that the pills “facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior... Читать дальше...

In Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro, writer James Baldwin observes, “History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us. To think otherwise is criminal.” Baldwin’s remarks succinctly capture our relationship to the past. They also address the role of “presentism”—the use of a present lens to interpret the past—within the historical profession.

With its hopes of retaking both chambers of Congress suddenly in tatters, the Republican Party is dusting off one of its oldest moves: resuscitating an idea that worked to great effect in some bygone era in the hopes that it will work again. 

Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon signed legislation that has turned out to be a de facto super PAC tax. Starting Friday, and continuing until the election, political candidates are entitled to discounted TV ad rates while super PACs, dark money groups, and party fundraising organizations have to pay the often inflated market price for the same time slots.