Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.
Conservatism
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Red-State Abortion Tactics Push Into Deep-Blue Illinois
How pro-choice advocates in two cities moved to take on anti-abortion lawmakers
Posted inPolitics
Our Cults, Ourselves
Is the best way to understand the MAGA movement to binge-watch docuseries about charismatic leaders sending their acolytes to ruin? Tune in and find out.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Saving Wisconsin’s Publicly Owned Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.
Posted inBooks
Cascading Shame
Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to study the motivations of the left-behind right.
Posted inPodcasts
American Political Freaks
North Carolina Republicans nominated seemingly the most deranged pervert in the state for governor.
Posted inPolitics
Mark Robinson: A Product of the Republican Controversy Pipeline
Robinson became famous for a viral comment at a city council meeting. His rhetoric is now coming back to haunt him.
Posted inPolitics
The Zeal of the Convert
Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.