Is There Still Room for an Anti-Abortion Hardliner in the Democratic Party?
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his wife, Donna, during his primary election watch party in Baton Rouge on October 12.Brett Duke In the past four years, the governor of Louisiana has signed both a statewide expansion of Medicaid and one of the country’s most restrictive abortion bans. He’s a Democrat in one of the…
The 2020 Election, Not the Supreme Court, Could Decide Dreamers’ Fate
Demonstrators arrive in front of the Supreme Court on Sunday after marching from New York City in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and temporary protected status.Jose Luis Magana/Getty The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in the case that will decide whether the Trump administration violated the law when it stripped undocumented…
The Trump Administration Is Giving Family Planning Funds to a Network of Anti-Abortion Clinics
When I walked into the Obria clinic in Whittier, California, one evening in July, a woman in a modest floral-print dress organizing bundles of diapers in a back room greeted me hopefully. She thought I’d come for a class. Instead, I asked if I had come to the right place for birth control. Furrowing her…
Voters Want Presidential Action on Climate—With or Without Congressional Support
John Nowak, ZUMA Last month, in a joint interview with Mother Jones and The Weather Channel, Elizabeth Warren promised that if elected, she’d use the power of the president to address climate change. “I will use all the executive power tools available to me to fight back against the climate crisis,” she said. Listing a…
Trump Jr. Gets Booed Out of His Own Book Event as White Nationalists Eat Their Own
Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump Jr. apparently failed to grasp the hypocrisy in refusing to answer questions for an event to promote his new book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, which is dedicated to mocking liberals and their so-called political correctness. But the president’s eldest son’s missteps were not lost…
Trump’s Draconian Border Lockdown Has a New Target
A Mexican woman and her children fled one of Mexico’s most dangerous states in search for asylum in the United States. They are now stuck living at the migrant encampment in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri For the past year, the bridges that cross from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso have been surrounded by encampments…