1. Blind Optimism and the Financial Fleecing of Ameri
(Newsletter)

...r day, “activist judge” is itself an empty slogan.  Republicans use it to mean a judge who won’t overrule Roe v. Wade, believes in protecting individual rights, and won’t give government carte bl...

2. Universal Single Payer Health Care Coverage
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...said the "Bill Obliterates Women's Fundamental Right to Choose" that became law in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and is still the law of the land. The Court held that a woman may a...

3. Leading Political, Legal Blogger Glenn Greenwald
(Opinions/Interview)

...ir, to block the President’s Supreme Court nominees, if they thought—if he thought they were going to overturn Roe v. Wade, to humiliate him by saying, “You will not have this chairmanship unless you ...

4. Empathy is Code for Being Human–Not a Bad Thing
(Opinions/Politic)

...r day, “activist judge” is itself an empty slogan.  Republicans use it to mean a judge who won’t overrule Roe v. Wade, believes in protecting individual rights, and won’t give government carte bl...

5. GOP's New McCarthyism
(Opinions/Daily)

...n Smith’s deceptive ads. Smith votes with George Bush 90 percent of the time: for the war in Iraq, to overturn Roe v. Wade, and to ship our jobs overseas. Smith can’t change his record, and he won’t c...

6. Vice presidential ventriloquists
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...en's movement sees the anti-abortion, so-called Pro-Lifers, marching to end those conditions held sacred since Roe v. Wade. Left and liberal media see the hoards of moralising evangelicals imposing ce...

7. A Palin Theocracy
(Editor/Editorial)

... Samuel Alito; these would also be Palin’s preferred judges. Another conservative on the Court would mean that Roe v. Wade will be overruled. That will return us to back alley abortions with coat hang...

8. Does John McCain Want to Ban Contraception?
(Opinions/Society)

...ortion.  Participants in focus groups are surprised to learn that, not only does McCain favor overturning Roe v. Wade, he opposes requirements that health plans provide contraception coverage.&nb...

9. Saving the American Left
(Opinions/Features)

...turalism and identity politics are tolerable but class concerns are ruled out of order. Affirmative action and Roe v. Wade are fine but prenatal care and maternity leaves are “fiscally imprudent.” Whi...

10. Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Parents’ Fanatical Faith
(Editor/Editorial)

...to by politicians—in the overly religious United States, which is one Supreme Court vote away from overturning Roe v. Wade in order to protect the rights of an undifferentiated bundle of cells in a wo...