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Like Bad Science Fiction: The Growing Danger of Anti-Abortion Extremism

Like Bad Science Fiction: The Growing Danger of Anti-Abortion Extremism

| 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...
Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

Nothing Is More Personal Than the Right to Control Your Own Body

| May 4, 2022 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body. So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion —...
The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Medicare for All

The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Medicare for All

| Jul 29, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedPeople of the menstruating persuasion: how dare you. The highest court in the land demands to know. This July, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that President Trump, who does not have a uterus, was quite right to object to Obama-era rules under the...
Grabbing ‘Em

Grabbing ‘Em

| Oct 18, 2017 | Cartoon|Environment / Health|Rights / Democracy
Your Boss Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Your Boss Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

| Oct 11, 2017 | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthWhen Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became law in 2010, it mandated coverage of birth control without co-payments. Some employers didn’t like the rule, and Hobby Lobby hated it so much that the company filed a lawsuit to stop it. Company owners said...

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