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Moira DoneganThe Guardian |
The politicization of transgender children in the US is one of the most astounding coups of propaganda and organized animus in recent history....
It takes a lot to get a man’s mother to declare him an “abuser of women”. Mothers, as a rule, are not known for their ungenerous assessments of...
Augusta Britt, now 64, says that she met the novelist Cormac McCarthy in 1976 beside a motel pool in Arizona. McCarthy, who died last year, was 42...
A Kentucky woman known by the pseudonym Mary Poe recently filed a lawsuit against her state, seeking an abortion for what was once a banal reason:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Just how stupid does Melania Trump think we are? On Wednesday, my colleagues at the Guardian published a leaked excerpt of the former first...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Does it even matter that the Haitian immigrants who have flocked to Springfield, Ohio, are in the country legally? Does it matter that Springfield,...
It is not a good sign for US politics that a second assassination attempt against the former president and current Republican nominee, Donald...
One of the grim lessons of the #MeToo movement and its long backlash is this: whether someone finds a sexual abuse allegation credible largely...
She spoke loudly and with confidence, gesticulated broadly, and returned, several times over the course of her seven-minute remarks, to the...
In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer said he would repeal Tory measures to limit the right to strike, while keeping a distance between Labour and trade...
“Historically, the vice-president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact,” Donald Trump told the National Association of Black...
“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...
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...
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...
Donald Trump stole thousands of classified documents when he left the White House in 2021, according to prosecutors, and shoved them in unsecured...
The apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, evidently carried out by a lone shooter at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killed one...