Newsom’s Montana Vacation Stirs Scrutiny of California Travel Bans
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared caught off guard by a backlash against his vacation this week in Montana, one of 22 states subject to California’s ban on official travel based on those states’ “discriminatory laws” against the LGBTQ community. Newsom’s communications team quickly revved into gear after reports that the governor was spending his downtime […]
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It’s Not ‘Minority Rule’; It’s the Point
One of the more popular complaints of the contemporary left is that the Constitution subverts “democracy” for “minority rule.” The United States is now more divided than ever. We have less reason not to use the institutions and mechanisms that diffuse power and limit one side from dominating the other. Institutions such as the Senate […]
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Ari Fleischer Exposes ‘Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias’
Ari Fleischer was my press secretary during 2001 and 2002 when I was in the White House Press Corps. He was unflappable and mild-mannered for President George W. Bush. He would also tell you that the reporters back then were less confrontational. Their aggression has grown so dramatically that Fleischer wrote a new book titled […]
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Biden to Sign Executive Order on Abortions — But Does It Do Enough?
President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order on Friday to expand protection for those seeking abortion services or contraceptives — but many reproductive rights advocates have said that his planned order doesn’t go far enough. Biden receives your order as Democrats and progressives have been demanding a more actionable response from the […]
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Democrats Introduce Bills to Protect Abortion Travelers, Contraception Access
Two bills have been introduced by House Democrats that would protect access to reproductive healthcare. The far right has attacked abortion rights and could potentially make contraception available to millions of Americans. Representatives Jamie Raskin, Lizzie Fletcher (D.Texas), and Marilyn Strickland(D-Washington). introduced a bill on Thursday safeguarding people’s right to travel across state lines in […]
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The Time to Plan for Winter COVID Needs to Start Now
The true beginning of COVID-19, the first winter in the valley under the shadow of death, is when my most vivid memories are. It was the political and social chaos that broke out at the start of the holiday season. It seemed as if nobody in positions of power had thought about families gathering for […]
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Newsom Announces California Is Going to Start Making Its Own Low-Cost Insulin
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California will soon begin making its insulin in an effort to expand access to the drug and ensure affordability for those who need it. “California is going to make its own insulin. Nothing, nothing epitomizes market failures more than the cost of insulin,” Newsom saidIn his announcement, he stated that […]
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Wisconsin State Supreme Court Rules Ballot Drop Boxes Are Illegal
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that absentee ballot drops boxes are illegal under the state constitution. The court’s controversial ruling, which will likely benefit Republicans in the state, ran along partisan linesAll four conservatives found that drop boxes were illegal, and all three liberals disagreed. This ruling means that voters can no longer use drop […]
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Protests Outside Justices’ Homes Have Increased Since the Overturning of “Roe”
This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. On July 2, hours after the Supreme Court’s chief security officer asked state officials to enforce laws prohibiting protests outside the homes of justices, a group of protesters read the First Amendment out loud in an impromptu march past Brett Kavanaugh’s house. “They have an incredible amount […]
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My University “Rebranded.” Instead, It Should’ve Actually Confronted Injustice.
For more than 10 year, I have been an American Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston). This is a community that I have wanted to join since the mid-1990s. I really wanted to be a part of the faculty at Boston’s only public research university, a place whose “urban mission” embodied […]
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