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Will 2024 be just a hangover from 2023?

If we want to build a strong, safe world for pregnant people and our families, let’s start with a floor we can all stand on. Policies that claim to keep the government out of abortion are being written to criminalize abortion later in pregnancy.

Looking back/Looking ahead

There are more insights in this week’s elections than in polls about a vote that won’t happen for a year. Defense of abortion rights, legalizing marijuana, aligning with labor and saving the planet are winning issues.

Ohio has Republicans in control of all three branches of government, but the state’s voters still managed to approve a ballot initiative on reproductive rights.

And we’ll do it again

Rethinking Israel, Jewish identity and antisemitism

In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme.

When celebs disappoint, and creators turn against their industries

News and analysis from, and about, left social movements and parties around the world