The Threat of a Post-Roe America Is Already Changing How Women Get Abortions
When lawmakers in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky passed legislation this year effectively ending all or most abortions in their states, it seemed to confirm...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst of Abortion TV Since the 1970s
Previously, on TV: the abortion-quandary plotline, featuring an uncertain pregnant woman agonizing over her decision. For years, this was how abortion was portrayed—a right-wing fantasy, essentially,...
View ArticleThe White-on-White Canon of Modern Art Is Being Reimagined. What Belongs in It?
On Monday, New York’s Museum of Modern Art reopens after a four-month renovation to its permanent collection. This was an expansion in every sense, not just of the collection but of the modern art...
View ArticleHeroes of the 2010s: Megan Rapinoe
The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Confession: I spent a good amount of time this year checking out the photos in Sports Illustrated’s...
View Article“If You Knew the Bay Area, You Knew We Weren’t Going Inside Without Fighting”
Thousands of people flooded the streets of d0wntown Oakland Wednesday night, in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew, to protest police brutality and the killing of George Floyd. The curfew was announced...
View ArticleJudge Denies Trump’s Effort to Stop Publication of John Bolton Book
A federal judge on Saturday rejected Trump’s efforts to halt the publication of former national security advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book about his 17 months in the White House. The judge ruled...
View ArticleFirst Person Arrested Ahead of Trump’s Tulsa Rally
Tulsa police have arrested a woman for trespassing in the arena where the Trump rally will take place later today. The woman, who told an MSNBC reporter that she had a ticket for the event, was wearing...
View Article“It Affects Virtually Nobody”: The 3 Weeks of Denial Leading Up to Trump’s...
Even by the warped standards of the Trump era, the past few weeks have been an unusually exhausting blur, culminating in the shocking yet not entirely surprising news that the president has COVID-19....
View ArticleSuperspreader in Chief
On January 22, two days after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, President Donald Trump breezily declared, “We have it totally under control.” Since then, we have witnessed the...
View ArticleDHS Secretary Says What We’ve All Been Thinking: The Immigration System Is...
Speaking with candor on Meet the Press on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged that “we are working in a completely broken system.” No kidding. After a week...
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