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New York Woman Faces Up to Eight Years Behind Bars for Selling Abortion Pills Online

Imani Gandy

Ursula Wing ran a business providing medication abortion pills to customers who needed them. Then the FDA showed up at her door.

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We Need to Talk About the Media’s Complicity in Violence Against Immigrants

Tina Vasquez

At what point are journalists doing Trump’s dirty work, aiding in the normalization of violence against immigrants and stripping them of their humanity?

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Paid Sick Leave Has Finally Come to the South

Auditi Guha

Legislators in 13 states have passed laws giving 16 million people access to paid sick time. Dallas could be the first city in the South to implement the policy.

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Eighth Circuit Unbothered by North Dakota Law Stripping Right to Vote From Native Americans

Imani Gandy

North Dakota is one step closer to ensuring that these Native American voters will never be able to vote.

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How Anti-Abortion Organizations Are Exploiting Personal Data

Sara Nelson

It is incredibly worrying that groups like Heartbeat International provide no clarity about how this intimate information is being shared.

[Photo: Representative Kenny Marchant smiles while posing in front of an American Flag.]

‘When Gerrymanders Fail’: Texas Republicans, Facing Tough Re-Elections, Quit

Dennis Carter

A spate of Texas Republicans have announced their retirements from Congress amid shifting demographic and electoral trends.

Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

Chrissy Stroop

In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty.

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Advocates of Color Are Creating Alternatives to Detention for LGBTQ Migrants

Tina Vasquez

“The solution to detention already exists. We are the solution."

Toni Morrison, Prophet of America’s Demons (1931-2019)

Ed Simon

Morrison’s witness to language’s power to both destroy and create has been on ample display in our current season of American blood-letting. In 1993 Morrison warned of “Tongue-suicide,” which is “common among the infantile heads of state and power merchants whose evacuated language leaves them with no access to what is … human.”

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Mitch McConnell Mislabeled Election Security as a ‘Wish List of the Left.’ Period.

Ali Javery & Edgardo Cortés

Despite the chorus of support across the political spectrum for election security reform, Mitch McConnell insists on stonewalling.

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