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Planned Parenthood @PPact: #Birthcontrol became legal 50 years ago today. See that and more in our 100-year birth control timeline! #Griswold50 Planned Parenthood: Our 5 favorite things about birth control Abortion should be safe and […]
The nominating conventions, when the Democratic and Republican parties will pick their general election candidates, are more than 15 months away. This far out, polls are generally not worth wasting pixels on. But NPR readers […]
Yesterday, June 4th, was the 96th anniversary of the day that Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right of women to vote, and sent it to the states for ratification. That act was an […]
(Author’s note: I no longer have the citation to the report that gave me the “25% of rapes result in pregnancy” stats. I believe it was from a study done on college campuses so it […]
It’s June! Time for legal geeks to look to the Supreme Court for rulings on the cases argued this session before the court adjourns on June 30th for the summer. The calendar calls for orders […]
Last night, Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, died of the brain cancer he had been battling since 2013. This is Beau Biden at the DNC in 2008, introducing his Dad: (grab kleenexes) […]
Clean water rules released on Wednesday will give the EPA more power to protect our drinking water: The Waters of the United States rule, developed by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, offers […]
Scott Walker, brave bully governor of Wisconsin, destroyer of little old schoolteachers’ pensions and incarcerater of protest singers, appears to be intimidated by the money needed to be competitive in an important electoral college state: […]
President Obama pushes back against GOP revisionist history ” I know that there are some in Republican quarters who have suggested that I’ve overlearned the mistake of Iraq, and that, in fact, just because the […]
In an address to Coast Guard graduates, President Obama on Wednesday made his strongest statements yet about the impact of climate change not only on our ability to survive as a species but on the […]
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