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August 23, 2022
Magazine
Kalena Thomhave
How Red States Use Regressive Grocery Taxes to Feed the Rich
Conservative state legislatures are using pandemic-era surpluses to give tax cuts for the wealthy while maintaining unfair flat taxes that punish the poor.
December 1, 2021
Molly Osberg
“Patients Call, and They Think Abortion Is Already Illegal”
As the Supreme Court hears arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, the director of a clinic in the South reflects on the damage already done.
October 21, 2021
Magazine
Marion Renault
Red America’s Compassion Fatigue: A Report From Mobile, Alabama
We’ve heard repeatedly from the country’s vaccine resisters. But what about the people who follow the rules? They’re ignored and forgotten—and they are in pain.
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November 6, 2020
Matt Ford
Racial Tolerance Was on the Ballot—and Won
Trump’s apparent defeat wasn’t the only election result this week that suggested voters’ growing support for a multiracial America.
May 23, 2019
Katy Fallon
What It’s Like to Live Under an Abortion Ban
Northern Irish women are still restricted by legislation crafted in 1861.
May 17, 2019
Laurie Penny
The Criminalization of Women’s Bodies Is All About Conservative Male Power
The goal of the wave of anti-abortion laws in America is to put female sexuality under strict and brutal state control.
May 16, 2019
Emily Atkin
Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants.
April 5, 2019
Matt Ford
The Everyday Brutality of America’s Prisons
It's not just Alabama. Inmates across the country are living—and dying—in horrific conditions.
June 5, 2018
Magazine
Mychal Denzel Smith
Rough Justice
How America became over-policed
May 9, 2018
Magazine
Vauhini Vara
California Dreaming
Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall. But Democrats need more than anti-Trump anger to win.
April 23, 2018
Caleb Gayle
No Reconciliation Without Truth
A new museum and lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, constitute a watershed moment in the way America remembers its racist past.
February 27, 2018
Matt Ford
The Cruelty of Executing the Sick and Elderly
Two controversial cases in Alabama reveal a disturbing trend in the death penalty in America.
December 28, 2017
Emily Atkin
Roy Moore’s election lawsuit is straight from Donald Trump’s playbook.
December 20, 2017
Graham Vyse
Democrats: We Can Win Suburban Republicans With a Progressive Platform
What the party has learned from its two biggest wins of 2017.
December 15, 2017
Elizabeth Drew
The Danger of Reading Too Much Into Alabama’s Special Election
Whether Democrats will be able to replicate their upset victory in the 2018 midterms is far from certain.
December 13, 2017
Carson Leigh Brown
Beware the “black voters are superheroes” narrative from Alabama’s election.
December 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Steve Bannon’s war against the Republican Party is only going to get uglier.
December 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Is Losing His Only Superpower
Roy Moore's loss in the Alabama election reveals the president's limits in motivating his voters.
December 13, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Cost of Supporting Roy Moore and Donald Trump
Doug Jones's upset victory in Alabama's special Senate election is the latest evidence that Republicans are facing a historic backlash.
December 12, 2017
Alex Shephard
Roy Moore Will Haunt Republicans for Years
Whether he wins or loses his race for the Senate, the GOP will rue the day it embraced the accused child molester.
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