Abortion, Adoption, and Abduction
With the Supreme Court poised to eradicate reproductive freedom, and ICWA on the docket, will America’s indigenous parents be incubators for wealthy white adoptions?
Politics
If United States democracy were a stock, I would short it.
I’m sorry to be a downer, but all indications show a bleak future for the American people and our government.
I have left Twitter.
I have heard good arguments to stay, but ultimately I neither like or trust Elon Musk, and I won’t be part of his empire.
“Jugendverführer and Jugendverderber”: The Republicans borrow another strategy from Nazi Germany.
I suspect you’re as tired as me of hearing how today’s Republican fascism parallels European fascism in the early 20th century. Nevertheless, the recent surge in anti-queer rhetoric from the US Right requires a brief lesson in history. Ideas about defending masculinity and the traditional family, and about protecting youth from indoctrination, were key to Nazi …
The new (old) fight over Critical Race Theory
In the wake of 2021’s very bad Election Day for Democrats, much talk has rightly focused on education as a wedge issue. In Virginia, particularly, schools and education were a cornerstone of Republican Glenn Younkin’s successful campaign against Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Some of the contentiousness around schooling comes from pandemic-related closures, but much of it …
On Free College for Billionaires
Pete Buttigieg has a talking point he returns to often, in explaining his opposition to proposals that college should be free: He thinks millionaires and billionaires, who can afford tuition, should have to pay for it. He thus supports only means-tested tuition support programs, which are complicated and prone to error–see, for instance, the calamitous …