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Anti-abortion believers have been fighting Roe v. Wade since it was decided nearly 50 years ago. We all have our own opinions, but the Supreme Court has held to the Roe ruling primarily to provide a stable legal framework in which people can make rational decisions. They rely on the doctrine of “stare decisis,” which obligates the court…

It’s unconstitutional to make it harder for people of a certain race to vote, even when the intention was partisan instead of racist, a North Carolina superior court has found. That means that a voter ID law that Republicans pushed through in 2018 is unconstitutional. A 2-1 majority of the court made clear that…

Johnny Autry Jr., 44, died at Pamlico Correctional Institution in January under suspicious circumstances. In a report, a pathologist at East Carolina University said it was a methamphetamine overdose. His family isn’t so sure. True, Johnny was at Pamlico after a drug conviction. And, the prison said that he was seen “smoking something” before…

There is bipartisan backlash against the Biden administration’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. Senator Mitt Romney said he “cannot understand why [withdrawal] has been done with such tragic human cost; without an effective strategy to defend our partners; and with inestimable shock to our nation’s credibility, reliability, and honor.” “For months,” said Democratic Representative Seth…

On Aug. 10, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he will resign, effective Aug. 24, in response to allegations that he sexually harassed at least 11 women while on the job. He is also accused of retaliation against people who complained about the harassment. After the allegations were initially made, Cuomo refused to…

On April 11, 2021, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, an unarmed African-American man, was fatally shot by a police officer. She was a 26-year veteran of the force, but she claims to have mistaken her pistol for her taser. On video, officer Kim Potter can be heard shouting “Taser! Taser! Taser!” before firing her pistol and…

Milo Yiannopoulos came this close to becoming a household name. (Janet Van Ham/HBO via AP) He came close, and for a time perhaps was, but for now even far-right publisher Breitbart News seems to have seen the light, as they say. Breitbart, the “platform for the alt-right,” as President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon put it,…

People keep saying, “Well, at least the Wetterlings have closure…” now that Danny Heinrich has confessed. But there’s no such thing as “closure” in a case like this – a case that went unsolved for roughly 27 years, and kept Jacob’s parents in the dark on what happened to their son all that time,…

Some movies feature the abandoned psychiatric hospital, in which characters roam the halls amid piles of tattered, dirty gowns, overturned chairs, and all manner of medical tools that doctors used to “treat” patients suffering from mental illness. The “abandoned psych hospital” in pop culture seems to imply that it’s a thing of the past….

A great many would argue that prisoners deserve nothing – no TV, no books, no nothing. On the other hand, some organizations, like the Center for Constitutional Rights, argue that the ordeal inmates go through when serving time in solitary – perhaps the worst form of punishment other than the ultimate punishment – is tantamount…