On Friday night, incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, a Baptist pastor, and challenger Herschel Walker, a former football star, convened for a debate in Savannah, Georgia to answer questions about the policy issues Americans routinely rank as most important: Things like Abortion. Healthcare. Crime. Warnock’s assignment was to prove he should keep the job. Walker’s mandate […]
Author: Abby Vesoulis
Raphael Warnock’s Campaign Strategy: Don’t Mention Herschel Walker—Or His Controversies
When Sen. Raphael Warnock addressed several dozen supporters at Atlanta’s East Point Avenue United Methodist Church on Wednesday night, what he didn’t say spoke more loudly than what he did. Warnock’s speech at this outreach event for Latino voters was full of religious and pro-immigration sentiments. “I am a Senator for all Georgia—no matter what […]
Biden Unveils an Ambitious Plan to End Hunger—But Congress Has Little Appetite to Act On It
At a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Wednesday, President Joe Biden outlined a bold plan to eliminate hunger in the United States over the next decade. “I know we can do this, end hunger in this country by 2030, and lower the toll that dietary-related diseases take on too many Americans,” […]
Nearly Three-Quarters of Americans Don’t Want President Biden to Run for Reelection
In response to a question this summer, Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota said he didn’t want 79-year-old President Joe Biden to run for reelection in 2024, at which point Biden would be 81. “I think he’s a man of decency, of good principle, of compassion, of empathy, and of strength. But to answer your question directly, […]
An Arizona Judge Just Reinstated a 150-Year-Old Total Abortion Ban
Before Arizona was even a state, its first territorial legislature enacted a total ban on abortion in 1864. On Friday, a state judge lifted a decades-old injunction blocking that law. Now, any person who helps “procure the miscarriage” for a pregnant person, “unless it is necessary to save her life” risks spending two to five […]
Abortion Is Galvanizing Voters. Michigan’s Ballot Measure Will Show Us How Much.
“I just need some space” is a disingenuous way to tell a romantic partner you’re Just Not That Into Them. As the top Michigan court ruled last week, it’s also a disingenuous way to attempt to remove from the Michigan midterm ballot an abortion-rights referendum that received 325,000 more voter signatures than the required 425,000. […]
Forced Parenthood and Failing Safety Nets: This Is Life in Post-Roe America
Melissa Kearse, a 38-year-old single mother of five, has never had an abortion. She never wanted one. “I come from a very religious background,” she explains, “where my-body-my-choice is not necessarily my body and my choice.” But in her home state of Georgia, any choice she did have was stripped away by the state’s conservative […]
Thanks to Inflation, You’re Spending $460 More Per Month. Here’s Where the Money is Going And Why
This spring, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who’s running for US Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania, filmed himself in the produce aisle of a Redner’s grocery store as he shopped for for “crudité” ingredients. The video, which resurfaced this week, was intended to spotlight high inflation under a Democrat-controlled federal government. Instead, it has been widely […]
The Inflation Reduction Act Was a Huge Win for Democrats. Will It Help Them In the Midterms?
After more than a year of intra-party squabbles and GOP stonewalling, plus incessant hurdles—both procedural and political—it’s a miracle that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Tuesday. A drastically scaled back version of the Build Back Better (BBB) bill that was derailed in late 2021 by Sens. Joe […]
Kansas Just Showed Us How to Win the Fight to Protect Abortion Rights
For the first time since a five-member majority of the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in late June, the future of abortion rights was on the ballot in Kansas. Literally. The Tuesday Kansas primary election included an abortion ballot referendum with two options. Individuals could vote “yes” for a […]