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Moira Donegan

The Guardian

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‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power

You can’t say it was a fluke. If in 2016, Donald Trump’s novelty, combined with his loss of the popular vote, allowed liberals to retain a bit of...

13.11.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

Make no mistake: this Trump presidency will continue to attack abortion rights

Abortion rights initiatives were on the ballot in 10 states on Tuesday, and won in seven of them. One of the losers was prop 4, Florida’s abortion...

12.11.2024 50

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Moira Donegan

Today is a day of despair for America. We are plunged into an anticipatory grief

Today is a day of despair, and it would be futile to tell those who fear and grieve for what is to come in America that they will be OK. It would also...

06.11.2024 550

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This tight race is, in part, about sexist backlash. But feminists can lash back, too

There’s one story of the 2024 presidential contest that says that this election is all about men, and their anger. Men, in this account, have gotten...

02.11.2024 100

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A woman says Trump groped her in front of Jeffrey Epstein. Will anyone listen?

Does sexual assault matter politically? Eight years ago, in October of 2016, many people thought that it did. When the Access Hollywood tape was...

25.10.2024 4

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Moira Donegan

Trump’s proposal for mass deportation of immigrants is a moral abomination

If you didn’t know any better, you might think, from recent media coverage, that the problem with Donald Trump’s proposal to round up and expel as...

23.10.2024 20

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Moira Donegan

Time is running out for Kamala Harris to break with Biden on the Gaza catastrophe

In an appearance this week on the daytime talkshow The View, Kamala Harris was asked how her presidency would differ from Joe Biden’s. “There is...

14.10.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

The FBI conducted a sham investigation into Brett Kavanaugh. Surprised?

Maybe it was always obvious that the whole thing was a sham. Back in 2018, when Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and others accused then...

10.10.2024 70

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Both Trump and Harris are swinging to the ‘center’. What does that even mean?

Who, exactly, could be an undecided voter in 2024? It’s not as if the candidates do not draw a sufficient contrast. There can be few people alive...

08.10.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us?

Just how stupid does Melania Trump think we are? On Wednesday, my colleagues at the Guardian published a leaked excerpt of the former first lady’s...

04.10.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

JD Vance’s debate lines were so polished you could forget they made no sense

Maybe he thought the pink tie could help. JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s running mate, clearly set out to make himself seem less...

02.10.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

The leaked dossier on JD Vance is revealing in all the things it doesn’t say

The public got a peek into the inner workings of the Trump campaign last week, when the independent journalist Ken Klippenstein did what major news...

01.10.2024 60

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Moira Donegan

The real victims of Olivia Nuzzi’s affair with RFK Jr are other female journalists

Anyone who is not a moralist or kidding themselves will admit that a good piece of gossip is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Gossip exposes the...

27.09.2024 8

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Moira Donegan

Republicans think Kamala Harris can’t be president because she hasn’t had children

Introducing Donald Trump is a strange occasion to talk about humility. To put it mildly, humility is not a quality that the former president is known...

24.09.2024 50

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Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia’s abortion ban. There will be others

There are other names, but this is the one we know: Amber Thurman has become the first woman whose death was preventable in relation to an abortion...

19.09.2024 30

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Moira Donegan

The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio

Does it even matter that the Haitian immigrants who have flocked to Springfield, Ohio, are in the country legally? Does it matter that Springfield,...

18.09.2024 30

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Moira Donegan

We live in an era of political violence. The rich and famous aren’t the primary targets

It is not a good sign for US politics that an apparent second assassination attempt against the former president and current Republican nominee,...

17.09.2024 20

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Moira Donegan

The bar was low for him, but Donald Trump still didn’t manage to clear it

The bar was set low for him, but Donald Trump still didn’t manage to clear it. The former president has faced growing concerns from within his party...

11.09.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

Was Kamala Harris’s big interview a success? Sort of

How much of an incentive does Kamala Harris really have to lay out a thorough policy agenda? With fewer than 70 days until the general election, the...

30.08.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

Why is alleged predator Bill Clinton still welcome in the Democratic party?

One of the grim lessons of the #MeToo movement and its long backlash is this: whether someone finds a sexual abuse allegation credible largely depends...

27.08.2024 9

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Moira Donegan

AOC’s power comes from her outsider status. Can that endure?

She spoke loudly and with confidence, gesticulated broadly, and returned, several times over the course of her seven-minute remarks, to the struggles...

22.08.2024 30

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Moira Donegan

Kamala Harris’s VP pick may signal a shift away from pivoting to the center

“Historically, the vice-president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact,” Donald Trump told the National Association of Black...

06.08.2024 4

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Moira Donegan

The US supreme court is an electoral issue. Democrats can win on it

In some ways, there’s something enviable about Joe Biden’s position. As a lame duck, he now retains all the official powers of the presidency, but...

31.07.2024 7

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Moira Donegan

The Republican party’s obsession with families has taken a fanatical turn

“It’s possible,” writes Jessica Winter in the New Yorker, “that if JD Vance had his way, citizenship in the United States would be conferred...

29.07.2024 90

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Unlike Joe Biden, Kamala Harris will be a genuine champion for abortion rights

When he was still the nominee, Joe Biden’s preferred euphemism for abortion was “Roe”. He would talk about “upholding” Roe v Wade even after...

25.07.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

Joe Biden has given America a fighting chance to defeat Donald Trump

The best time for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race would have been several weeks ago, in the panicked days after his disastrous debate...

22.07.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

Is there anything that JD Vance actually believes?

How many faces does JD Vance have? For one thing, he looks a lot different these days. Around the time the election denier first ran for Senate in...

19.07.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

American rule of law is vanishing at the tips of Trump-appointed judges’ pens

Donald Trump stole thousands of classified documents when he left the White House in 2021, according to prosecutors, and shoved them in unsecured...

18.07.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

The Trump shooting is a reminder: we live in a grim new era of political violence

The apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, evidently carried out by a lone shooter at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killed one...

14.07.2024 90

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Moira Donegan

Was Donald Trump a king during his presidency? The US supreme court thinks so

01.07.2024 9

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Moira Donegan

The supreme court abortion ruling hides conservative justices’ partisan agenda

The supreme court is a messy institution. It’s six conservative justices are mired in infighting over both the pace of their shared ideological...

28.06.2024 50

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Moira Donegan

This debate was a disastrous opening performance for Biden

The Biden campaign is probably hoping that you did not watch the first presidential debate. Over the course of 90 minutes in Atlanta, the president...

28.06.2024 70

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Moira Donegan

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery

Did you know you could give your local government officials tips when they do things you like? Brett Kavanaugh thinks you can. In fact, if you’re...

27.06.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

The US supreme court’s rightwing justices are fighting legal monsters of their making

In the late 18th century, when the constitution was ratified, men’s abuse of women was penalized by neither custom nor by the law. Men were allowed...

22.06.2024 30

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Moira Donegan

Rightwing cases built on made-up stories keep making it to the US supreme court

The first of many lies at the center of Moore v United States, the major tax case that the supreme court decided on Thursday, was that the issue at...

21.06.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

The supreme court’s abortion pill ruling isn’t the end of a fight. It’s the beginning

On Thursday, the US supreme court unanimously ruled that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine – a sock-puppet group of fanatically anti-choice...

14.06.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

I had convinced myself Trump would never be convicted. I’m happy I was wrong

The former president of the United States, and the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election, is now a convicted felon 34 times...

01.06.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

Louisiana’s move to criminalize abortion pills is cruel and medically senseless

This week, Louisiana moved to expand the criminalization of abortion further than any state has since before Roe v Wade was decided. On Thursday, the...

29.05.2024 80

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Moira Donegan

Congress’s latest ‘antisemitism’ hearing was an ugly attack on Palestinian rights

If you didn’t know what was really going on at US college campuses, the congressional hearing on Thursday – in which the presidents of...

24.05.2024 50

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Moira Donegan

Why did it take a humiliating video for us to believe Cassie’s claims about Diddy?

If you haven’t seen the video yet, please trust me that you don’t need to watch it. Last week, CNN released surveillance footage of an attack by...

21.05.2024 90

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Moira Donegan

Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it

Joe Biden’s re-election team is playing it cool. The Biden campaign has long been shrugging at the president’s fading polls, turning down...

21.05.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

The US supreme court is neither honorable nor functional any more

These people can’t help themselves. Last week, the New York Times revealed that during the days after the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 January...

20.05.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power

He seems to have understood it as a business deal. That’s what Stormy Daniels – the former porn star whose account of a sexual encounter with...

09.05.2024 50

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Moira Donegan

Florida’s abortion ban has brought fear and chaos. This is the right’s vision for the US

A Woman’s Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their...

03.05.2024 60

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Moira Donegan

The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

Usually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts...

27.04.2024 60

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Moira Donegan

The supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

The risk of stating plainly what Idaho argued at the US supreme court on Wednesday morning is that it is so sadistic and extreme that people might not...

25.04.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents,...

19.04.2024 100

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Moira Donegan

OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had

OJ Simpson is dead, and Nicole Brown should still be alive. Simpson, the longtime batterer and stalker of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the man who all...

12.04.2024 200

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Moira Donegan

Republicans want to use an 1873 law to ban abortion. Congress must repeal it

They don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and...

08.04.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

Florida just crushed abortion rights. But it also created a tool to fight back

It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Florida state supreme court would not have allowed Governor Ron DeSantis’s six-week abortion ban to...

03.04.2024 10

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