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Moira Donegan

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Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None

Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None
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Moira Donegan

Why are US supreme court justices starting to sound like Trump?

Why are US supreme court justices starting to sound like Trump?
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Moira Donegan

How did transgender children in the US become so politicized?

The politicization of transgender children in the US is one of the most astounding coups of propaganda and organized animus in recent history....

06.12.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us

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...

05.12.2024 60

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Moira Donegan

Let’s be honest with ourselves: Cormac McCarthy groomed a teenage girl

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...

28.11.2024 30

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Moira Donegan

We must defend elective abortions, not just the most politically palatable cases

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:...

25.11.2024 6

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Moira Donegan

‘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...

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...

12.11.2024 10

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Moira Donegan

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 60

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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...

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 50

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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 20

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Moira Donegan

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...

04.10.2024 30

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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 100

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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 2

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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 10

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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...

24.09.2024 40

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Moira Donegan

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 2

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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 a second assassination attempt against the former president and current Republican nominee, Donald...

17.09.2024 40

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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...

27.08.2024 30

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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...

22.08.2024 20

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Moira Donegan

The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

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...

06.08.2024 1

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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 1

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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 50

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Moira Donegan

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 10

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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...

22.07.2024 80

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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 20

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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 80

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