People who live in red states are in more financial distress than those living in blue states, according to a recent WalletHub study. Texas ranked at No. 1…
Read more Pinching pennies in South Carolina? Most residents are. Here’s were WalletHub ranks itThe Trump administration’s cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of…
Read more Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump ClawbacksThe best way to understand last week’s unusual debate between Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Ron DeSantis of Florida is to think of them less as representatives…
Read more What the DeSantis and Newsom Debate Really RevealedWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Diana Greene Foster made a painful prediction: She estimated that one in four women who wanted an abortion wouldn’t be…
Read more Dobbs’s Confounding Effect on Abortion RatesOfficially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change…
Read more The Abortion Backlash Reaches OhioAcross multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the…
Read more The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning PointThe red-state drive to reverse the rights revolution of the past six decades continues to intensify, triggering confrontations involving every level of government. In rapid succession, Republican-controlled states…
Read more The Tennessee Expulsions Are Just the BeginningPresident Joe Biden is following a strategy of asymmetrical warfare as the 2024 presidential race takes shape. Through the early maneuvering, the leading Republican candidates, particularly former President…
Read more The Topic Biden Keeps DodgingThe next front is rapidly emerging in the struggle between supporters and opponents of legal abortion, and that escalating conflict is increasing the chances that the issue will…
Read more Abortion Pills Will Be the Next Battle in the 2024 ElectionPaxlovid is a paradoxlovid. The game-changing antiviral swooped in during the pandemic’s worst winter with the promise of slowing COVID deaths to a trickle. But since it became…
Read more Inside the Mind of an Anti-PaxxerEven before Donald Trump announced he was seeking the presidency again, last week’s election results showed Republicans how difficult it will be to escape the former president’s gravitational…
Read more Is Trump Still a Viable Candidate? Yes and No.If Republicans win control of one or both congressional chambers this week, they will likely begin a project that could reshape the nation’s political and legal landscape: imposing…
Read more How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Nationwide Freedoms
