Donald Trump did not just reinstate a pre-Obama ban on U.S. assistance to overseas groups that perform or even talk about abortion, he vastly expanded its reach.
Dorothy Samuels
Dorothy Samuels, a former member of the New York Times editorial board, is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Big Money’s Other Casualty: Fair Courts
Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.
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For Women’s Reproductive Freedom, a Chill Wind Blows
Roe v. Wade will stand for now, but the essential right it protects is in Trump’s line of fire.
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Trump’s Awful Behavior Drives Away Women, But So Does His Anti-Woman Platform
The Republican Party will never solve its woman problem until its leaders abandon candidates and policies that seek to rob women of their basic right to make their own child-bearing decisions.
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Secret Money Floods Judicial Elections
Unlimited, undisclosed spending is playing an ever-greater role in state supreme court races, undermining the fairness of the courts and putting judges at risk of conflicts of interest.