Congress “Certainly Could” Ban Abortion Nationwide, McConnell Says
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Since Politico published a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade will likely be struck down, Republicans have been reluctant to take the usual victory tour, instead focusing their attention on just how the opinion leaked.…
Republicans Would Really Prefer You Just Not Talk About the Roe Opinion
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Overturning Roe v. Wade has been a foundational purpose of Republican politics for nearly half a century. The quest to end constitutional protections for abortion rights has determined who runs…
Texas’ Electoral College Lawsuit Was So Bad the State Bar Just Filed a Lawsuit About It
Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The people who worked the hardest to overturn the 2020 presidential election have faced few professional consequences. I don’t mean the jet-setting realtors and ex-NYPD officers and children of conservative…
Biden Must Start Getting Creative to Protect Abortion Rights
Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.There will be no deus ex machina from the federal government when the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, as it is now virtually guaranteed to do since Justice Samuel…
The Atrocities I Saw Outside Kyiv Hint at Monstrous Discoveries Yet to Be Made
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Bucha was known as Ukraine’s Switzerland. Now it is synonymous with unimaginable horror. I first traveled to the town five years ago to film a documentary about the country’s struggle to build a democracy enshrined in human…
Abortion Has Always Been a Part of America—Even if Alito Won’t Admit It
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This article is adapted from the forthcoming book No Choice: The Past, Present, and Perilous Future of Abortion in America, published by Hachette Book Group. In Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion that, if made official as…