| May 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA federal advisory committee has unanimously recommended that the Food and Drug Administration allow the sale of Opill, an over-the-counter birth control pill. Coming amid a widespread assault on reproductive health care, this could be a game-changer. Margery Gass, an...
| Jul 27, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s January 2026. The Republican president thanks Congress for banning all abortions and makes an enthusiastic plea for a law that would require a national registry of pregnant women, so their pregnancies could be subject to surveillance. Far-fetched? Not the way...
| Jul 13, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyBarely a month ago we lived in a world where all Americans had the right to decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy. For much of the country, that’s now history. Just weeks ago, states could implement at least some common-sense limits on carrying guns....
| Jul 11, 2018 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Why should you care? Because everything from reproductive rights to voting, education, and health care is now at stake. Kavanaugh, a judicial ideologue...
| Jul 16, 2014 | Environment / HealthSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to take action that will counter the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision. Thanks to that ruling, big employers may deny birth control coverage to the female employees whose health insurance they must provide. In...
