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The Most Urgent Issue for the U.S. Catholic Church Isn’t Abortion Anymore

Francis X. Rocca

March 24, 2026

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The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby

August 22, 2025

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The Biggest Anti-Abortion Victory Since ‘Dobbs’

July 1, 2025

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The Adriana Smith Case Was an Ethical Disaster

Christine Henneberg

June 24, 2025

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Americans Are Tired of Choice

June 23, 2025

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Whose Choice? Whose Life?

Elizabeth Bruenig

June 16, 2025

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The Supreme Court’s Inconsistency Is Very Revealing

Paul Rosenzweig

June 12, 2025

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A Convenient Piece of Junk Science

May 24, 2025

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The Conclave Just Did the Unthinkable

Francis X. Rocca

May 8, 2025

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Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.

April 29, 2025

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The Project 2025 Presidency

David A. Graham

April 24, 2025

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The Coming Democratic Baby Bust

Kristen V. Brown

February 17, 2025

RFK Jr. Has a Lot to Learn About Medicaid

Katherine J. Wu

January 29, 2025

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A Possible Substitute for Mifepristone Is Already on Pharmacy Shelves

January 23, 2025

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The Coming Democratic Revolution

December 4, 2024

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The Next Abortion Battlefront

Kristen V. Brown

December 3, 2024

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A Good Country’s Bad Choice

November 22, 2024

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What Swayed Trump Voters Was Bidenomics

Ronald Brownstein

November 7, 2024

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How Trump Neutralized His Abortion Problem

November 7, 2024

A home displays a pro-abortion-rights sign on October 26, 2024.

There’s No Coming Back From Dobbs

Kristen V. Brown

October 22, 2024

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Abortion Pills Have Changed the Post-Roe Calculus

October 18, 2024

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Donald Trump’s Roomful of Suspiciously Friendly Women

October 17, 2024

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What Is This ‘Post-Birth Abortion’ Donald Trump Keeps Talking About?

Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens

October 17, 2024

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Eight Great Reads

October 14, 2024

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What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris

October 7, 2024

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Yes, Third-Trimester Abortions Are Happening in America

October 7, 2024

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Trump and Vance Are Calling Their Abortion Ban Something New

October 5, 2024

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The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale

November 2024 Issue

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J. D. Vance Tries to Rewrite History

David A. Graham

October 2, 2024

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Who Should Get to Have Kids?

Kristen V. Brown

September 26, 2024

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Six Sunday Reads

September 22, 2024

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An Unexpected Window Into the Trump Campaign

September 20, 2024

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The Women Killed by the Dobbs Decision

September 18, 2024

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‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’

October 2024 Issue

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J. D. Vance’s Very Weird Views About Women

September 11, 2024

The Plan to Take Down the Hyde Amendment

August 19, 2024

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