“Well, it’s not just about moving forward. For a long time, I thought it was just about moving forward. That’s understandable. But after 2022, it’s not just about moving forward.”
Horrified by this week’s news that Arizona has allowed its near-total abortion ban from 1864 to be re-enforced, Alexandra is not drinking anything you might imagine, including ragtime music and potable rainwater. Even though there were no benefits, I literally jumped through time and imagined America moving backwards.like that Temporary deviations may occur. The result is both ridiculous and unforgettable.
Kate Cohen She instead took up the zombie genre with a column about the 1864 Arizona law and similar laws that were (at one point) ruled unenforceable or unconstitutional, or replaced in subsequent years.Let’s take a look at New York State’s laws against adultery and homosexuality. in 12 states — Both are technically still in the planning stages.
“I believe these laws have been left alone with the assumption that the future is the path to social progress,” Kate writes. But these days, they rise from the grave and pursue progress with open arms.
As both Kate and Alexandra point out, laws like this really should be repealed, as the arc of history could be reversed at any time and all sorts of zombie laws could return. It is.
Conservatives who are adamantly opposed to abortion Ramesh PonnuruRepublicans, on the other hand, don’t think they’re doing enough to shift the arc of history back to a pro-life shape. He urges the party to stand firm on the issue and stop putting pressure on states.
“Republicans are betting that saying this is a national issue will seem more reasonable to voters than, say, saying they want to build a national consensus to ban late-trimester abortions,” Ramesh wrote. ing. “But that means they’ll be talking about abortion in the context of Democratic choice” — which includes Democrats pushing for aggressive red-state legislation that goes far beyond the public’s preferences. .
his fellow abortion opponents marc thiessen Strategically I disagree. He believes former President Donald Trump’s Republican efforts to lobby states on abortion have helped abortion opponents “win a long battle for hearts and minds.” Americans are currently less supportive of abortion regulations, and pushing for a federal ban would only accelerate that trend.
Mark also predicts that by dropping the issue, Republicans could turn pro-abortion Democrats into “extremists” in the public’s eyes.
finally, george will I wonder if there won’t be many extremists on either side for long. “For decades,” he said, “abortion was seen as an irresolvably divisive issue, unfit for politics’ basic task of dividing dissent.” writing.
In George’s estimation, that situation is finally changing, with “the intensity of the debate over abortion policy waning.” The country could reach polarization even sooner if Republicans waive both the six-week state stay-at-home order and the 15-week federal stay-at-home order.
The only way to find out what this means is if we all time travel, Alexandra says at the end of her column. can do: move forward — especially heading into November.
Chaser: Ann Ternes A cartoon of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s disagreement with President Trump over abortion.
from Lee Hochstadter’s A column about all the Ukrainian superstars who could have qualified for this summer’s Olympics had they not lost their lives in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Even the next generation, like 14-year-old weightlifter Alina Peregdova, who also died in 2022, has become extinct.
It was unfair for the International Olympic Committee to refuse to ban Russia from this year’s Olympics, Lee wrote. That’s cowardly. If Lee were in charge, individual athletes from Russia and the puppet state of Belarus would not even be allowed to compete under a neutral flag.
Let Russia hold an Orwellian “Friendship Games” in September, citing the lack of prize money and standards, Lee wrote. doping. The Olympics should represent something higher.
Every generation eventually invents its own words, but Gen Z is totally slang maxed.
If you don’t know what that means, you’re not Gen Z. Even better, you’re not an incel or a member of the toxic, misogynistic online girlfriend community of “involuntary celibate people.”
Gen Z linguists and educators adam alexic In an editorial, he writes that the online generation Z has ironically adopted a lot of incel terms like “sigma,” “kucked,” and “blackpilled,” but don’t worry. Everything is explained therein.
Aleksic also explains why this is not a reason to worry. “In fact, it’s a happy twist of fate that the incels’ own words are now being used against them,” he says.
Chaser: For 2022, the American Dialect Society has chosen “~ussy” as the word of the year. Check this out for yourself. Amanda Katz (Hello, my editor!) I wrote that I should have chosen “FAFO”, or “look around and find out”.
- A new privacy bill could be a good start for much-needed technology legislation. Jen Rubin is written. But that’s just the beginning.
- Does President Trump have a right opinion on crime?Test your (and his) knowledge editorial committee Latest fact check quiz.
- Trump can’t solve the bureaucracy problems that plague conservatives. Megan McArdle is written.
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