Claudia Rankine: “Eventually they’re coming for you too”
The poet on how America’s racism epidemic intersects with the erosion of women’s rights.
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Abortion is an economic issue – and the Democrats know it
A pledge to protect reproductive rights is a pledge to help working-class families and push poverty rates down.
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Three things to watch out for in the US midterms
The nationwide results will determine the future of Joe Biden’s presidency, and of American democracy itself.
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From Anthony Quinn to Andrey Kurkov: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring No Choice: Becca Andrews on the right to abortion, and Servants of the Damned by David Enrich.
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“This is the big battle”: Jan Schakowsky on abortion in America
The US congresswoman explains how the threat to reproductive rights comes from the same place as the Republicans’ dismissal of…
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Why a bid to strip away abortion rights in Kansas backfired
You know something’s up when restriction fails in a Republican state.
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Judith Butler on Roe vs Wade, trans rights and the war on education
The philosopher and gender theorist says the restriction of abortion rights is part of a project to restore patriarchy.
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Has Joe Biden saved abortion?
The US president can’t kid himself that his executive order is all it takes.
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Why men don’t get Roe vs Wade
Women feel the threat to our abortion rights viscerally, in our bones.
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Letter of the week: Land of theocracy
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The Roe vs Wade decision is resonating in Europe
The US Supreme Court’s reversal of federal abortion law has rekindled debates over reproductive rights.
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The pain of Americans is all too familiar to those of us in Northern Ireland
The overturning of Roe vs Wade will embolden anti-choice advocates everywhere, says the leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland.
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My abortion showed me that women in Britain are far from free
We are told that the overturning of Roe vs Wade means nothing for liberal Britain, but the impulse to coerce…
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Guns, abortion, climate: how a new US Supreme Court ruling threatens the planet
The court’s conservative majority has pressed its agenda by restricting executive power over climate change regulation.
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The message from the Supreme Court: do not get used to having rights
Overturning Roe vs Wade means some women’s bodily autonomy will cease at the moment of conception.
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Roe vs Wade has resonated widely – but the US is not the centre of the universe
It isn’t healthy to focus on American issues so obsessively that we ignore other countries.
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To protect abortion rights, don’t let the UK ditch the ECHR
Privacy campaigners warn metadata could put Americans seeking abortions at risk of prosecution. Is Europe any safer?
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Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty
Fear and frustration grip the US as the ruling that guaranteed abortion rights is overturned. What comes next?
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The problem of period apps post-Roe
As abortions become illegal in many US states, the data kept by fertility trackers poses new dangers to their users.
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The end of Roe vs Wade: what is there left to write?
We have known this decision was coming for a long time, but still I don’t know what to say today.
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