NYC Doctors, Doulas, Activists Prep for a Massive Influx of Abortion Seekers
At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
Read more...At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more
Read more...Who’d have thunk it? Income support, such as welfare, reduces crime.
Read more...Severe racial differences in initial conditions after Emancipation have contributed greatly to today’s stalled progress in closing the racial wealth gap.
Read more...In “Horizons,” a historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.
Read more...To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...A useful reminder that the health costs of bad air are more extensive than most people realize. But what to do?
Read more...Small farmers are the world’s primary suppliers of food. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates
Read more...Yves here. This personal abortion account is from a known reader and is accurate. By Jane Doe Dear person who believes abortion is murder, I write to explain why I don’t, hoping you will listen and understand. I accept I cannot persuade you. I understand your beliefs; I want you to understand mine. We Americans […]
Read more...Yves here. I hate to come off as a knee-jerk skeptic, but I question some of the premises of the post. First, Neuberger states, without a link to a study, that most people think solving crimes is the most uncontroversial/important thing police do (his statement about the popular view of the role of crime solving […]
Read more...Yves here. This using Nigeria as a forecast for the US is hyperbolic, since even if Roe v. Wade is overruled or narrowed, it then becomes a states-rights matter, and quite a few states will allow for abortions and many are likely to strengthen their laws. Moreover, laws by states to criminalize abortions and facilitating […]
Read more...The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social condor has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species.
Read more...On the burgeoning homeless problem in Portland, and the city’s well-meaning but insufficient measures.
Read more...The Fed, following neoclassical orthodoxy, hates having ordinary workers properly paid.
Read more...Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.
Read more...An in-depth study reveals the scope and severity of medical debt in the US is much worse than previously thought.
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