Today on TAP: The Supreme Court is not above politics
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inLaw and Justice
Bostock: What Two Conservatives Realized and Three Dissenters Missed
By following Antonin Scalia’s textualist criteria, Neil Gorsuch ruled that gay and transgender employees can’t be discriminated against.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The ERA and the Dynamic of Deafness
The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated less by Phyllis Schlafly than by an inward-looking failure to listen. Are we now in a moment when potential movement allies at last listen to one another?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Filling the Maternal-Care Gap in Prison
Nonprofit pregnancy support organizations help strengthen bonds between incarcerated women and their newborn children.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Will Win by Championing Everyone
Unions must lead the charge for programs—Medicare for All, comprehensive child and elder care—that are as universal as the pandemic’s threat.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’
A discussion with documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, whose work chronicles labor, women, and the American left, and who won an Oscar this year for ‘American Factory’
Posted inPolitics
On the Perils of Ignoring Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Claim
Democrats cannot simply hope that charges levied at Joe Biden will be ignored by Donald Trump.
Posted inPolitics
Will Democrats Give Unmarried Women a Reason and a Way to Vote?
Voting laws can make it hard for groups like single mothers to get to the polls. We need smarter laws—and more compelling campaigns.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will the Court Ignore Past Rulings in Its Zeal to Demolish Abortion Rights?
In last week’s Supreme Court arguments, pro-choice attorneys hoped the Court’s respect for precedent would temper its non-respect for women’s rights.
Posted inPolitics
‘Resistance’ Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Why Their Groups Didn’t Fight for Her.
Wary of factional battles and worried about beating Trump, resistance groups withheld endorsements.