Texas plans to block about $3 million in Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood operations in the state -- a move the reproductive healthcare group said could affect nearly 11,000 low-income people.
If our calamitous past has taught us anything it should be that mere survival is not enough. And assurances that “we will survive” refer to a privileged and limited "we."
The idea of making donations in Pence's name arose and spread on social media as a protest after Republican Donald Trump won his bid for the U.S. presidency in a surprise victory last week.
I doubt I'll ever forgive myself for the mistakes I've made, but -- like you -- now all I can do is fight back against Trump. Here is what I think we need to do ...
Before Trump turned the Republican nominating contest into a battle of boasts and bullying, right-wing extremists had dominated the party. Their platform, not surprisingly, goes even further to the right than what’s even been heard ...
Although right-wing media have denied the severity of anti-choice violence against abortion providers and clinics, a Mother Jones report on the closure of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Appleton, WI, demonstrated the widespread impact such ...
Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes appeared on CNN to discuss Zika's spread and Sen. Marco Rubio's opposition to abortions for pregnant women infected with the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause microcephaly.
Fox News did not air several Democratic National Convention speeches from figures promoting issues that run counter to the narrative the network has pushed for years—including racial justice, reproductive rights, gun safety reform, LGBT equality, ...
Planned Parenthood is battling on multiple legal fronts across the country, close to a year after the airing of several heavily edited videos that purported to show staff selling fetal tissue. The organization has filed ...
In the first half of this year, 1,022 provisions to curtail abortion rights have been introduced in state legislatures. Of those provisions, 17 have passed at least one legislative chamber and 21 have been enacted ...
At this point, Trump's brutality is all theoretical. But Republican cruelty is actual policy, and it has decimated states across the country.
Hypocrisy, zealotry, and gobbledygook. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of the increasingly unhinged right wing.
So-called political establishments and Washington insiders should be judged by what they do, rather than what they are.