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A Florida judge has struck down the state’s extreme anti-drag law, calling it “specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers.” And with his ruling, public drag is again legal in Florida.

Some members of the House Freedom Caucus would reportedly like to liberate themselves from Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Saturday brings the infamous first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Let’s begin by bearing in mind something that a lot of anti-abortion activists used to say before Roe was struck down: that the mere striking down of Roe was their goal, and all they wanted was to see the matter returned to the states.

One year ago, the Supreme Court overturned nearly five decades of constitutional law, declaring in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and the Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy does not cover the decision—or, it turns out, even the medical necessity—to have an abortion. The ruling returned the decision to criminalize any or all abortions (or anything lawmakers might eventually decide was abortion, like so-called “abortifacients”) to the states, with no further federal oversight. Читать дальше...

In early June, as wildfires in Canada raged over record amounts of acreage and blew smoke across the eastern seaboard, local news in Buffalo, New York took photos of the haze covering the city. The health department of Erie County issued a warning urging people to stay indoors and provided free N-95 masks for residents.

Saturday marks one year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a decision which widened the gulf between Americans who can acquire an abortion and those who cannot. In the time since Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ability to obtain medication or procedural abortion has largely become predicated on which party controls a state’s government, as well as an individual’s personal and financial capacity to travel significant distances. Читать дальше...

This year, I became an Airport Person—an awkward position to be in as a climate journalist. Before, I tried to limit my regular travel to buses and trains where possible. But over the winter, I started a relationship with someone who lives on the West Coast, and now I find myself haunting JFK Airport every few months on jaunts to go see her. (I even bought one of those dorky neck pillows—all in the name of love.)

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s writings on Indian law have received plenty of attention in recent years. The court’s only Westerner has set himself apart from his colleagues on the left and the right for his strong defenses of tribal sovereignty, his empathetic understanding of Native American history, and his ability to write about one of the most complicated areas of the American legal system with unusual clarity.

At the beginning of Mao Zedong’s reign, China was a poor, underdeveloped country with a shallow industrial base. Mao’s Great Leap Forward Campaign of 1958–1961 was intended to increase food production dramatically while creating a credible industrial base for the country. It turned out to be a horrifying fiasco, resulting in the deaths from hunger of millions of Chinese peasants. Five years later, Mao instigated what came to be called the Cultural Revolution, whose avowed purpose was to purge... Читать дальше...

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This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. In the wake of that momentous ruling, abortion has been a critical issue in special elections, midterm contests, and ballot measures. Abortion rights advocates say that the passage of time will not dim the matter’s salience with voters but will continue to motivate them to turn out at the ballot box.

“Abortion is a kitchen table issue for voters,” argued Angela Vasquez-Giroux, the... Читать дальше...

Progressive Democrats boycotted Narendra Modi’s speech to Congress Thursday, citing the Indian prime minister’s terrible human rights record.

A Moms for Liberty chapter has apologized after receiving blowback for quoting Hitler in its newsletter, but they still justified using the quotation.