Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionToday is the day that this nation sees, with eyes that are briefly clear, , and exactly No clouds today where I live. Only a stark and chilling truth in a bright blue sky: , and so is Casey.The , co-authored by the Supreme Court’s three liberals, is explicit: “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens.” They write that, in the wake of this decision, “from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionToday is the day that this nation sees, with eyes that are briefly clear, , and exactly No clouds today where I live. Only a stark and chilling truth in a bright blue sky: , and so is Casey.The , co-authored by the Supreme Court’s three liberals, is explicit: “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens.” They write that, in the wake of this decision, “from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionThis article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.The news of Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning on Monday didn’t just break — it shattered. It was the unexpected timing, yes. And the unprecedented nature of the . And the retro-pig stylings of the draft’s author, who made ample use of the term “abortionist” and unctuously averred that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” as if any of the hard-won protections of oppressed classes...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionThis article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.The news of Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning on Monday didn’t just break — it shattered. It was the unexpected timing, yes. And the unprecedented nature of the . And the retro-pig stylings of the draft’s author, who made ample use of the term “abortionist” and unctuously averred that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” as if any of the hard-won protections of oppressed classes...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIn 1979, Maxine Waters was serving her first term as a California state assemblywoman from Los Angeles when one of her constituents, a 39-year-old widow named, was shot eight times and killed in her own front yard after a dispute with police over a $22 gas bill. Love’s case was Waters’s public entrance into the fight against racist policing; she took up Love’s case and publicly lambasted Daryl Gates, Los Angeles’s police chief at the time, in a series of newspaper editorials highlighting the racial disparities of his police...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIn 1979, Maxine Waters was serving her first term as a California state assemblywoman from Los Angeles when one of her constituents, a 39-year-old widow named, was shot eight times and killed in her own front yard after a dispute with police over a $22 gas bill. Love’s case was Waters’s public entrance into the fight against racist policing; she took up Love’s case and publicly lambasted Daryl Gates, Los Angeles’s police chief at the time, in a series of newspaper editorials highlighting the racial disparities of his police...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.Joel Wertheimer took a job in Andrew Cuomo’s administration in February 2017, straight from his position in Barack Obama’s White House. He came on alongside almost 30 other new hires, many of whom had also worked for the outgoing president or on Hillary Clinton’s campaign and were seeking a progressive professional path through the Trump years. Some saw New York State government as a bulwark against what they feared Trumpism would...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.Joel Wertheimer took a job in Andrew Cuomo’s administration in February 2017, straight from his position in Barack Obama’s White House. He came on alongside almost 30 other new hires, many of whom had also worked for the outgoing president or on Hillary Clinton’s campaign and were seeking a progressive professional path through the Trump years. Some saw New York State government as a bulwark against what they feared Trumpism would...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.Joel Wertheimer took a job in Andrew Cuomo’s administration in February 2017, straight from his position in Barack Obama’s White House. He came on alongside almost 30 other new hires, many of whom had also worked for the outgoing president or on Hillary Clinton’s campaign and were seeking a progressive professional path through the Trump years. Some saw New York State government as a bulwark against what they feared Trumpism would...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.Joel Wertheimer took a job in Andrew Cuomo’s administration in February 2017, straight from his position in Barack Obama’s White House. He came on alongside almost 30 other new hires, many of whom had also worked for the outgoing president or on Hillary Clinton’s campaign and were seeking a progressive professional path through the Trump years. Some saw New York State government as a bulwark against what they feared Trumpism would...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionDemocratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus after being sequestered for several hours during last week’s siege on the Capitol building in a room with maskless Republican colleagues.After armed, pro-Trump insurgents on Wednesday, January 6, many congressmembers and their staffs — including Jayapal, who had initially been stranded in the gallery of the House chamber — were evacuated to a secure location; though over 100 people were crowded into a poorly ventilated room for...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionDemocratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Washington has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus after being sequestered for several hours during last week’s siege on the Capitol building in a room with maskless Republican colleagues.After armed, pro-Trump insurgents on Wednesday, January 6, many congressmembers and their staffs — including Jayapal, who had initially been stranded in the gallery of the House chamber — were evacuated to a secure location; though over 100 people were crowded into a poorly ventilated room for...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIn the math-addled hours after polls closed on Election Day, as the New York Times needle tipped delicately toward blue in Georgia, the nation’s attention followed, homing in on one of its most transformative political figures: Stacey Abrams.She is extraordinary, partly because she has one of the most detailed-oriented, forward-looking, compulsively organized brains in politics. Abrams — who served as minority leader in Georgia’s state legislature for seven years before running for governor in 2018, losing narrowly to Georgia’s...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIn the math-addled hours after polls closed on Election Day, as the New York Times needle tipped delicately toward blue in Georgia, the nation’s attention followed, homing in on one of its most transformative political figures: Stacey Abrams.She is extraordinary, partly because she has one of the most detailed-oriented, forward-looking, compulsively organized brains in politics. Abrams — who served as minority leader in Georgia’s state legislature for seven years before running for governor in 2018, losing narrowly to Georgia’s...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionThis article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.The story of an awakening must begin with how many had been permitted to sleep in the first place.I often think back to a , which aired after the release of the Access Hollywood tape. Lin-Manuel Miranda was the guest host, and in the cold open, he directed a line from his fanatically beloved musical Hamilton at a photo of Donald Trump, declaring with ferocity, “You’re never gonna be president now.”You could feel viewers, Hamilton fans,...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionThis article was featured in , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. to get it nightly.The story of an awakening must begin with how many had been permitted to sleep in the first place.I often think back to a , which aired after the release of the Access Hollywood tape. Lin-Manuel Miranda was the guest host, and in the cold open, he directed a line from his fanatically beloved musical Hamilton at a photo of Donald Trump, declaring with ferocity, “You’re never gonna be president now.”You could feel viewers, Hamilton fans,...WW…

Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIf you’ve been paying careful attention, you’ll know that this year’s presidential election is — factually speaking — between two septuagenarian straight white men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But one of those guys is working diligently to figure out how he can instead run against a Black woman.On Monday, Trump sent a claiming that Biden’s “handlers” and the “Fake News Media” were doing “everything possible” to get Biden, whom Trump has long tried to portray as physically and mentally infirm, “through the election. Then he will...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commissionIf you’ve been paying careful attention, you’ll know that this year’s presidential election is — factually speaking — between two septuagenarian straight white men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But one of those guys is working diligently to figure out how he can instead run against a Black woman.On Monday, Trump sent a claiming that Biden’s “handlers” and the “Fake News Media” were doing “everything possible” to get Biden, whom Trump has long tried to portray as physically and mentally infirm, “through the election. Then he will...WW…

When the Democratic National Committee released its schedule for its big socially distanced convention this week, we learned that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, inarguably among the party’s most dynamic figures, would have just sixty seconds to address the nation. Ocasio-Cortez responded by tweeting out a poem by Benjamin E. Mays, the same that late Rep. Elijah Cummings had read in his to the House of Representatives in 1996:I only have a minute. Sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, I did not choose it, But I know that I must use it. Give account if I abuse...…When the Democratic National Committee released its schedule for its big socially distanced convention this week, we learned that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, inarguably among the party’s most dynamic figures, would have just sixty seconds to address the nation. Ocasio-Cortez responded by tweeting out a poem by Benjamin E. Mays, the same that late Rep. Elijah Cummings had read in his to the House of Representatives in 1996:I only have a minute. Sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, I did not choose it, But I know that I must use it. Give account if I abuse...WW…