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August 31, 2021

Here’s What Happens If Texas’s Extreme Abortion Ban Goes Into Effect

Clinics across Texas are preparing to get sued and to have to send patients out of state.

by Esther Wang

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Madison Cawthorn’s Latest: The Time May Come for “Bloodshed”

His potential Democratic opponent unloads on the Berchtesgaden-visiting congressman for his latest over-the-top remarks.

by Daniel Strauss

Welcome to the Climate-Covid Convergence

Hurricane Ida, wildfire evacuations, and Orlando’s oxygen shortage all show that we need policy solutions to address multiple crises at once.

by Melody Schreiber

Why Isn’t Terry McAuliffe Cruising in Virginia?

He was a successful governor. It’s a blue state now (so we say). So why is the Virginia gubernatorial race so close?

by Daniel Strauss

The Plutocratic Takeover of European Soccer Is Nearly Complete

This year’s insane transfer-window period has illuminated the sport’s apocalyptic financial inequities.

by Alex Shephard

Deborah Levy’s Luminous Investigation of Female Ambition

In her formally experimental series of autobiographies, Deborah Levy takes a rollicking, intimate journey through the challenges of motherhood and writing.

by Kirsten Denker

The California Recall Election Could Wreck the Country

Gavin Newsom’s wayward political career is not the biggest thing at stake.

by Jason Linkins

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