Politics

A federal judge has struck down a ban on abortion after 15 weeks that was passed by the Mississippi state legislature in March. In a blistering opinion, Judge Carlton Reeves declares the legislature’s “professed interest in ‘women’s health’ is pure gaslighting.” Reeves sided with Jackson Women’s Health Organization —Mississippi’s sole …

A small but enthusiastic group of Middle Tennessee residents showed up to hear some music and use their voices at Party at the Polls, a voting rally organized by WME and Endeavor Impact. Held at the very un-rock & roll hour of 10 a.m. at Ascend Amphitheater, the event nonetheless …

Nobody had high hopes for Trump’s environmental policy. He had, after all, said climate change was a hoax and sent out more than 100 skeptic tweetseven before running for president. But the speed, recklessness and spite with which his administration has sought to upend environmental protections has been breathtaking. Climate …

President Trump has plenty of supporters in Congress. Then there’s Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee may be the most ardent and aggressive Trump loyalist in Washington. Most notably, he’sused his position atop the traditionallynonpartisan House Intelligence Committee to compromise the investigation into the Trump …

Some prominent Democrats are done playing nice now that Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton said it may be time to consider abandoning the idea of civility when dealing with “a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.” A day later, former …

United States senators are taking turns reading the FBI’s updated background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But the report is unaccountably incomplete. The FBI interviewed only one of Kavanaugh’s three accusers. And investigators failed to interview key witnesses who could have helped corroborate allegations of sexual misconduct by …

While America was consumed with the Brett Kavanaugh drama last week, the Washington Post unearthed a crazy tidbit in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) latest environmental impact statement. The study predicts a rise in global temperatures of about four degrees Celsius, or seven degrees Fahrenheit, by the year …

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, nervous about the optics of an all-male panel interrogating an alleged victim of sexual assault, gambled and hired a “female assistant” to question Christine Blasey FordThursday on their behalf.All 11 members of the Republican majority — including Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who called for …

Americans have been suffering since President Trump decided to ignite a global trade war earlier this year. As things tend to do in this administration, the problem is about to get worse. On Monday night, Trump officially imposed a new round of tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. The …

If last week you didn’t know there was such a thing as a “New Yorker Festival,” you probably do now, after former Trump Svengali and alt-right Lenin Steve Bannon was booted from the lineup.New Yorkereditor David Remnick announced the un-vitation to staff Monday, after a slew of celebrities pulled out …