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At a grassroots level, New York advocates have long been helping women where abortion is effectively unavailable. Now, they’re doing even more

It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.

Who’d have thunk it? Income support, such as welfare, reduces crime.

Boris Johnson agonistes.

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.

Concerns are rising about the EU Commission’s ongoing opacity over its relations with Pfizer. But this is not the first time von der Leyen has been caught deleting sensitive information regarding deals with large corporations.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s possible to get books published about Putin based on accounts by spooks not in Russia when Putin was in office.

free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.

The filibuster: Senatorial arcana, the Senate as a deliberative body, and blowing it all up with a lawsuit based on a theory of “legislative entrenchement”

Severe racial differences in initial conditions after Emancipation have contributed greatly to today’s stalled progress in closing the racial wealth gap.