The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was designed to help member countries rebuild and bolster security after World War II through something called “collective defense.” In essence, an attack against one member is considered an attack against all members: Everyone in NATO is supposed to rally as if it were their own country being attacked. For […]
Author: Abby Vesoulis
Nine People Wounded in Cleveland Shooting
An early morning shooting left nine people injured in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday. Cleveland Police say they responded after gunfire near the block of West 6th Street and Johnson Court—a downtown intersection surrounded by clubs, bars, and a liquor store—at around 2:30 a.m. They arrived to find nine people injured, according to Cleveland 19 News. […]
Court Allows Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors to Take Effect Immediately
Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors can go into effect—at least for the time being. In late June, a district court had halted a ban on minors receiving care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy on the grounds that the restrictions in the bill, which Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee signed […]
What Abortion Funds Saw After Dobbs
It took more than a month to pin down Megan Jeyifo, the executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF), for an interview. She’s been understandably busy, growing CAF from an organization that served roughly 30 Illinois residents monthly in 2016 into one of the largest independent abortion funds in the nation. These days, upwards […]
Supreme Court Declines to Make It Easier to Sue Social Media Companies
Thanks to the 26-word legal provision known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, social media companies have long enjoyed broad immunity from lawsuits over what individual users post on their platforms. On Thursday, the Supreme Court left that liability shield intact, sidestepping a contentious legal and political fight that at one point seemed […]
Health Care Without Mifepristone? “The Experience for Patients Is Going to Be Awful.”
“It was absolutely revolutionary,” Dr. Marguerite Cohen, an OB-GYN in Portland, Oregon, says. Dr. Cassing Hammond, an OB-GYN in Chicago, Illinois, describes it as a “sea change—a godsend for so many of the patients who needed it.” These physicians are referring to the advent of mifepristone more than twenty years ago, a drug that has been approved […]
Did the Biden Administration Just Help Trans Athletes—Or Legitimize Their Exclusion?
Thursday was a whirlwind day for the trans community. First, the Supreme Court court declined to immediately reinstate a 2021 West Virginia law requiring female sports teams at public middle schools, high schools, and colleges be solely based on “biological sex” rather than gender identity. The high court’s unsigned order means that the plaintiff who […]
Did the Biden Administration Just Help Trans Athletes—Or Legitimize Their Exclusion?
Thursday was a whirlwind day for the trans community. First, the Supreme Court court declined to immediately reinstate a 2021 West Virginia law requiring female sports teams at public middle schools, high schools, and colleges be solely based on “biological sex” rather than gender identity. The high court’s unsigned order means that the plaintiff who […]
Republican Asa Hutchinson Announces 2024 Presidential Run
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson announced Sunday that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. “I’m convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts,” 72-year-old Hutchinson said during an interview on ABC with John Karl. “I believe I can be that […]
John Fetterman On His Struggle With Depression: “I Was Indifferent” Towards Living
Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) entered Walter Reed Hospital for clinical depression in mid-February. Six weeks later, he returned home on Friday. In a CBS Sunday Morning interview with anchor Jane Pauley, filmed two days before he was discharged, 53-year-old Fetterman opened up about what led him to seek treatment. “I had stopped leaving my bed,” […]