| Feb 28, 2024 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s 2024, but it feels like we’re back in 1991 this Women’s History Month. Back then, President George H.W. Bush was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Ronald Reagan by continuing to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench, and Roe v. Wade was...
| Feb 21, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials...
| Jul 19, 2023 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyUnfortunately, it’s 1984 again in America. Not the year. The book. George Orwell’s classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses “newspeak” and “doublethink” to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society. Their regime held power...
| 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...