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The surprising science of how pregnancy begins
April 12, 2023
Pregnancy is often talked about as though it’s a light switch. You’re a regular person walking around and then a switch flips — presto, you’re…
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Republican leaders are now adopting increasingly autocratic measures, using the police powers of government to impose moralized regulations, turning private citizens into enforcement officers and…
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Senate Democrats are urging the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into the expulsions of two Tennessee state representatives to determine whether their removal…
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Why Do Most Public Servants Follow Rules About Free Gifts?
April 12, 2023
An article by Terri Gerstein: A lime FrozFruit. A turkey sandwich. A pack of baseball cards. A bag of clementines. These are just some of…
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A Revolution in Cost-Benefit Rules
April 12, 2023
Our April issue includes a package of articles on the duplicity of economic modeling that misinforms policy debates and decisions. Seemingly neutral models often conceal…
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The Biden administration, seeking to reassure abortion rights activists without provoking the courts, is privately promising an array of liberal groups that it will wage…
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‘Abortionists.’ ‘Unborn human.’ Legal experts blast ‘incendiary’ rhetoric of Texas ruling on abortion pill.
April 11, 2023
An unprecedented preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone signals a new…
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Crash Course: Donald Trump vs. The Law
April 11, 2023
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently charged former president Donald Trump with crimes related to multiple acts of fraudulent bookkeeping. And, because it involves Trump,…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: In recent weeks, the American public has been privy to the startling private communications of high-level executives and media…
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Healey, in bid to ‘ride out’ legal challenge, moves to stockpile 15,000 mifepristone doses in Massachusetts
April 11, 2023
Governor Maura Healey revealed Monday that the state took preemptive steps to bolster its mifepristone stockpile, putting in an order last week for 15,000 doses…
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How Do We Decide When to Punish Our Children?
April 11, 2023
Every sweet child in the world is in the criminal justice system. The unofficial one, that is; the one run by their parents or other…
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New documentary spreads false facts about US anti-BDS laws
April 11, 2023
An op-ed by Josh Halpern: As Israel Apartheid Week sweeps across American college campuses, BDS activists have a new weapon in their media arsenal. Boycott,…
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Access to abortion pill in limbo after competing rulings
April 10, 2023
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the…
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One City’s Escape Plan From Rising Seas
April 10, 2023
An article by Susan Crawford: Think of Charleston as sitting in a basin of water. A bathtub. As long as the bathtub has 7 feet…
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After years of planning, false starts, and a bitterly fought campaign to kill it, the fate of one of Massachusetts’ most important clean energy projects…
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On Thursday night, Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee state House of Representatives expelled two of three Democratic legislators who engaged in a peaceful protest on…
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A federal judge’s ruling to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses threats to the U.S. government’s regulatory…
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New York City’s Budget; A Wild Day in Tennessee’s Capitol; Child Labor; The Good Friday Agreement at 25; #BL (Spring) Trees
April 10, 2023
Coming up on today’s show: Mayor Adams has called for city agencies to cut their budgets, but the Independent Budget Office found the city is…
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Two conflicting rulings Friday by federal judges in Texas and Washington over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone has left access to the drug…
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The Unequal Racial Burdens of Rising Seas
April 10, 2023
All true climate-change stories are about the abuse of power. Knowing this, Susan Crawford makes a plea for climate justice in “Charleston,” her sweeping case…
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When his post office started requiring that he deliver Amazon packages on Sundays in 2015, Gerald Groff told his boss he couldn’t do the shift:…