A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Push in the States for a Right to Birth Control

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception — an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024. The justice’s argument in Dobbs v.…

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Bagging a New Generation

Madi McCool was driving in downtown Philadelphia in the summer of 2020 when she first spotted it: a reusable cloth mask that was actually cute. It was baby blue, orange and white, with a distinctive, bold daisy pattern. It caught her eye immediately. After some internet sleuthing, she tracked the mask down: It was by…

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The New War on Bad Air

In January 1912, in the depths of a New York City winter, an unusual new apartment complex opened on the Upper East Side. The East River Homes were designed to help poor families fend off tuberculosis, a fearsome, airborne disease, by turning dark, airless tenements inside out. Passageways led from the street to capacious internal…

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Love Letter: A New Life

“My father was not much of a talker,” writes Brian Frazer. “My mother’s overbearing personality had forced him into a shell — getting more than a word or two out of him was rare.” Find out how Mr. Frazer brought his father out of his shell, and back into the world, in this week’s delightful…

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