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In Kansas, the ACLU Is Challenging Anti-Trans Laws in Court and by Building Community May. 07, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In 2023, Kansas enacted a law attempting to define "transgender" out of existence by restricting the... Read More
Abortion Is a Winning Issue for Republicans Mar. 20, 2024
The visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, the f... Read More
By the Time Abortion Makes the Ballot, the Battle's Over Nov. 13, 2023
The fight over abortion in America is as much a religious contest as a political one. Until the pro-... Read More
The Little Lights in Marion, Kansas Aug. 18, 2023
My wife, Deborah, born and bred in a New England city of 100,000, rolls her eyes a little when I tal... Read More
Abortion, a Sickness in Our National Soul Aug. 16, 2023
The resounding defeat of Issue 1 in a statewide vote in Ohio is rightly seen as a repudiation of pro... Read More
Something's Happening Here ... Jul. 06, 2023
No one on the pro-choice side wanted Dobbs to be decided and the abortion issue left to the 50 state... Read More
Hot Mic Moment for Kansas GOP Official Reveals the Depth of Party's Hostility May. 25, 2023
For anyone who wonders why legislators in red states like Missouri keep passing laws that seem to ha... Read More
We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors From Death Penalty Cases Apr. 17, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Leo Jones, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Florida jury in 1982 fo... Read More
The Republicans on Abortion Feb. 02, 2023
At its winter meeting, rather than acknowledge that its extremism on abortion may have hurt it in th... Read More
When Does Life Begin? Aug. 11, 2022
WASHINGTON — Frankly, I was not surprised by the abortion vote in conservative Kansas last wee... Read More
Maybe Our Democracy Is OK Aug. 05, 2022
On Tuesday night in Kansas, a bipartisan group of voters overwhelmingly rejected an amendment to the... Read More
Kansas, My Kansas! Aug. 05, 2022
In Kansas, where the corn is as high as a state rep's teenage girlfriend, voters stampeded the polls... Read More
Republicans Feel the Backlash on Abortion Rights Aug. 05, 2022
For decades, abortion was the perfect issue for Republicans: one that they could use to energize "pr... Read More
Dog Days of Summer Aug. 04, 2022
The ancient Romans coined the phrase "dog days" based on the period that the brightest star (Sirius,... Read More
Abortion Politics: The New Narrative Aug. 04, 2022
On the same day that Kansas (yes, Dorothy, it was Kansas) voted against allowing the legislature to ... Read More
Abortion-Rights Victory in Red-State Kansas Confirms This Is America's Stance Aug. 04, 2022
For the first time since the Supreme Court revoked the biological freedom of millions of American wo... Read More
The Restorative Power of the American People Aug. 31, 2021
LEBANON, Kansas — There is something uplifting about standing in the center point of the Unite... Read More
What's the Matter with Kansas State University? Jul. 01, 2020
Kansas hasn't voted for a Democrat in presidential elections since 1964. From 1995 to 2002 and from ... Read More
Cops Don't Need Another Excuse to Hassle Innocent Drivers: Supreme Court Shouldn't Let Police Stop Cars Simply Because They're Registered to People With Suspended Licenses Oct. 30, 2019
At any given time, millions of Americans are forbidden to drive because their licenses have been sus... Read More
Short Takes on Judges Who Talk First, Think Later Feb. 11, 2019
Red-Faced Blackface Gucci has pulled from shelves its "blackface sweater," which was pretty much exa... Read More
