Conservative positions on abortion and LGBT rights are astoundingly unpopular. It could be better sledding for moderates than condemning their own party.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
The Red-State War Against Women, Gays, Transgender Americans …
Republicans’ culture-war legislation is both wedge-issue politics and a subjugation of women and minorities.
Posted inWorking in America
Ron Kim Targets a New York Progressive Heavyweight in Allegations of Wage Theft
Kim accuses the Chinese-American Planning Council of rampant wage theft—and, in coordination with 1199SEIU, of blocking workers’ access to the courts.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Care Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Our problems are deeper than a lack of care infrastructure.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Court and the Rise in Vigilantism
Last Friday’s ruling on Texas’s new anti-abortion law makes it possible to undo long-established rights.
Posted inPolitics
How the New York Times Enables Right-Wing Spin
Its op-ed editors are played for fools by the right’s propagandists.
Posted inLaw and Justice
God Save the United States and This Honorable Court
The Supreme Court is poised to act on radical arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Abortion and the Beginning of the End of the Right to Privacy
A Q&A with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sets the stage for more restrictive policies.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Abortion Will Not Be Sent Back to the States
Republican jurists invoke democracy in preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but democracy functionally doesn’t exist in much of the country.
Posted inTAP
A ‘Roe’ Repeal Would Drive a Wedge Into Republicans’ Aspirations
Today on TAP: The party base is all for it, but the suburban swing voters who went Republican last month in Virginia would be appalled.