To Save Democracy, Let’s Reform the Courts
Where Do We Go From Here? is a series of stories that explore the future of abortion. It is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Rewire News Group. You can read the rest of the package here. After a horrifying court term that saw reproductive health rights obliterated at the same time we got guns gone wild, there’s no reason to…
When Abortion Was Illegal, Adoption Was a Cruel Industry. Are We Returning to Those Days?
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A few weeks ago, before the final decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which ended the constitutional right to an abortion, I downloaded the audio version of American Baby: A…
The Real Target of the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Getty Images This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In yet another major blow to democratic constitutionalism, the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that the Clean Air Act does not give EPA authority to regulate the power grid as a whole. The decision will likely limit the…
IVF Worked, and 2 Embryos Remain. Soon She May Not Be Allowed To Decide What Happens to Them.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When Emily and Mike Allen got married in 2009, they immediately started trying for a baby—at 32, Emily was eager to become a parent. But as it turned out, she would have…
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in today to replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, becoming the first Black woman justice in history and the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with experience as a…
Supreme Court Has Just Ruled the Biden Administration Can End Remain in Mexico Policy
Migrants wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.Veronica G. Cardenas/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In one of the biggest immigration cases before the Supreme Court, and the last case…