The midterms displayed a polarized America. Paradoxically, the thin Republican House majority and some substantive areas of convergence produce opportunities.
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Grotesque, Wonderful Respect for Marriage Act
The bill is a sensible response to a deep division among Americans about a fraught moral issue.
Posted inEducation in America
Parents Fear Culture Wars Have Hijacked K-12 Learning
While candidates battle over book lists, kids fall behind in the classroom and worry about bullying and school shootings.
Posted inPolitics
The Missing Factor in the Election Story: Turnout
It’s the variable that matters most, but you won’t see it in most of the punditry predicting Democratic losses.
Posted inPolitics
A Swing-Seat Candidate Runs Against Corporate Power
Will Rollins, campaigning against a long-serving Republican, is waging much of his race by fighting money in politics and corporate concentration.
Posted inTAP
Senate Democrats Take a Run at Messing Up Same-Sex Marriage Wedge Issue
Today on TAP: Linking same-sex marriage codification to a government funding bill draws mass opposition.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Post-‘Roe,’ Transgender People Fear for the Future
States that restrict abortion access have also put harsh anti-trans laws on the books that threaten people’s lives.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The ‘Dobbs’ Backlash and the Democrats’ Choice
Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the will of the majority; do liberals have the leadership to fight back?
Posted inTAP
Codifying Sexual Privacy Rights
Today on TAP: It’s time for Democrats in Congress to protect past landmark decisions from the current lunatic Supreme Court—and to force Republicans in Congress to take awkward votes.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Sense of an Ending
On ‘Dobbs,’ ‘Roe,’ ‘Casey,’ and life in a gender hierarchy state
