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After two years of tracking anything and everything happening with abortion rights ina daily newsletter, I’ve outlined the most important, urgent, and useful information in my new book: Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win. In a moment when anti-abortion legislators and activists are launching …

Faress Arafat, 22, worked as a volunteer nurse in Gaza — first in the emergency department at al-Shifa Hospital and then in displacement camps in Rafah. It has now been one year since Israel’s war on Gaza began. More than 41,000 people have been killed, and 100,000 have been injured. …

The recent identification of 400 Iraq War veterans potentially exposed to chemical weapons has brought renewed attention to the critical role of the Veterans Exposure Team-Health Outcomes Military Exposures (VET-HOME) program. This initiative, launched under the PACT Act of 2022, offers specialized care for veterans suffering from military environmental exposures, …

It’s Sunday afternoon near the Washington Monument and the clouds overhead are suitably dark and impenetrable. All your friends are here. The accidentally Russia-funded Tim Pool slips into a VIP tent while Russell Brand shows off his chest hair to his partner Jordan Peterson, the victor in many imagined battles …

In the Democratic National Convention’s reimagined fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the Beltway,” President Joe Biden played the part of the porridge. “I was too young to be in the Senate,” he quipped, and now he’s “too old to stay as president.” Biden’s candid admission was met with a standing ovation …

T his summer has seen a political season unlike anything in our nation’s history. An assassination attempt on a former president running for a second term. An aging president bowing out of the election weeks before his party’s convention. A vice president giving a zombie campaign a desperately needed adrenaline …

Donald Trump’s politics of chaos and division are sucking America into a dark vortex, just seven weeks before an Election Day that could propel him back to the profound, and perilous, powers of the presidency. Trump is at his most dangerous when he’s in a bind. Months after president Joe …

Every time I hear “voting is your civic duty,” I cringe. As a climate activist and Get-Out-The-Vote organizer, I can’t help but feel our election system is disconnected from the reality of actual Americans. The platitudes traditional politics offer feel so oblivious to the constant political buffoonery people are expected …

Let’s say you were going to your high school prom in the spring of 1969, and you turned on the (probably AM) radio in your Mustang on the way to the school cafeteria — the Number One song in America? Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In. Fast forward 55 years, and …

Thanks to the conservative Supreme Court, thousands of Veterans Affairs Department rules and regulations are now vulnerable to court challenges, a scenario that could be ignited by a new Trump administration. As a young political staffer, one of the first hard lessons I learned was that in politics, there are …