Category: Civil Liberties
Richard C. Gross: Eyes Wide Shut
Steven Hill: It’s time for a constitutional convention
Republican right-wing extremists are putting together an agenda from hell to prepare for a GOP president in 2025
Mehrdad Mirdamadi: Iran’s Hijab Law Exposes Divisions In The Islamic RepublicA new crackdown by Iranian authorities on women who violate the country’s “hijab and chastity” law has been widely criticized, even by figures within the clerical establishment
Judith McDaniel: Abortion decision demands disruptionWe need to be loud and confrontational and disruptive. We need to be willing to take the consequences of our disruptions
Mekela Panditharatne: 2020 Election Deniers Organize to Challenge Votes in 2022The effort by Trump advisers and January 6 supporters is an extraordinary investment in sustaining and bolstering the false narrative of widespread voter fraud
Nina Burleigh: Right-Wing Extremists Are Making Fiction Come TrueCan Democrats Craft a Winning Message Off a Smorgasbord of Misogynist Madness?
Sarah Hughes: What Can Unions Do Now to Defend Abortion Rights?Unions should support workers in defying the laws. Abortion access was originally won through sustained, public civil disobedience
Brianna Griffith: Austin, Texas, partially decriminalizes abortion: what comes next?On July 21, Austin City Council passed the Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone (GRACE) Act
Mekela Panditharatne: 2020 Election Deniers Organize to Challenge Votes in 2022The effort by Trump advisers and January 6 supporters is an extraordinary investment in sustaining and bolstering the false narrative of widespread voter fraud
With a narrow mandate focused on modernizing US democracy, a Con Con with broad representation is the best path to resolve the deepening crisis of US democracy
Gregg Barak: With the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling, Can Trump’s Damage to the Environment Ever Be Repaired?Trump’s appointments reveal the frightening far-reaching power of a corrupt president