life after roe
Mar. 21, 2023
‘They Really Wanted to See My Baby Get Taken Away’ A woman is suing a Brooklyn hospital for secretly testing her for drugs during labor and calling child-protective services.
Let’s Have a Real Conversation About Barbara Walters Seventeen leading broadcasters on her legacy and making their way in the world she made.
just asking questions
Feb. 3, 2023
What It Takes to Give Abortion Seekers (Actually Good) Advice Online The Online Abortion Resource Squad’s Ariella Messing on fighting disinformation in a post-Roe world.
life after roe
Jan. 20, 2023
What the Supreme Court Left Out of Its Dobbs -Leak Report The investigation failed to identify the leaker of the draft opinion — and the justices got light treatment.
the intelligencer profile
Sept. 6, 2022
Dorothy Roberts Tried to Warn Us The legal scholar has been writing about the criminalization of pregnancy for 25 years. Now she’s calling to abolish the child welfare system.
Who Actually Lost the Sex Wars? And were there any winners? A conversation with Christine Emba, Nona Willis-Aronowitz, and Lorna Bracewell.
The Dissenters Say You’re Not Hysterical “The majority tells everyone not to worry,” the dissenting justices write. But they’re ringing the alarm.
life after roe
June 24, 2022
The End of Abortion As We Knew It In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade .
life after roe
May 23, 2022
life after roe
May 19, 2022
I, Too, Have a Human Form In Justice Alito’s draft opinion, the pregnant body is erased.
life after roe
May 7, 2022
Abortion Funds Are a Lifeline. And a Target. The right’s attacks on grassroots groups have already begun.
life after roe
May 5, 2022
Does the Reasoning in Roe v. Wade Matter? Few valorize the opinion that provided a constitutional right to abortion. But its weakness may be beside the point.
life after roe
May 4, 2022
life after roe
May 3, 2022
Leaked Draft Opinion Says Supreme Court Will Overturn Roe v. Wade The draft majority opinion, if issued, would open the door to absolute abortion bans at any time and for any reason.
the internet
Apr. 27, 2022
The Best Moments in Twitter History What makes Twitter great? Chaos, madness, hilarity.
Does the Supreme Court Deserve Ketanji Brown Jackson? The first Black female justice would lend the Court more credibility. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
The Other First What it means to nominate a veteran public defender to the Supreme Court.
What’s Actually in the Sexual Harassment Complaint Against John Comaroff The accused allegedly did much more than compliment a grad student’s bike helmet.
The Parent Booster Frustrated by a lack of urgency and information, activist parents pushed the FDA on shots for the youngest kids.
What Can Stephen Breyer’s Successor Accomplish? The Supreme Court’s liberals can try to forge a consensus, or use their perch to call out a conservative supermajority.
supreme court
Jan. 26, 2022
Stephen Breyer Secures His Legacy The liberal justice’s retirement ensures that Joe Biden will have a shot at nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Neil Gorsuch Wear a Mask Challenge As the Supreme Court tries to quell a COVID controversy, the conservative justice remains maskless.
supreme court
Jan. 18, 2022
Neil Gorsuch Reportedly Refused John Roberts’s Request to Wear a Mask The conservative justice’s obstinacy has forced Sonia Sotomayor to work remotely.
The Supreme Court Goes Anti-Vaxx The High Court’s overreach is as absurd as it is brazen.
good morning america
Dec. 30, 2021
Was The Morning Show ’s Creator Wrong to Report an Allegation of Harassment? A former employee’s claim allegedly got kicked up to executives — possibly without her consent.
the pandemic
Dec. 24, 2021
The Infuriating Wait for the Youngest-Kids Vaccine Pfizer’s shot for children under 5 was expected soon. What happened?
Amy Coney Barrett’s Adoption Myths “What’s happening at the Supreme Court is that people are using us to further their own agenda. They’re co-opting our lives and our stories.”
This Is How Roe Ends Hope for a compromise that preserves abortion rights looks lost after conservative justices spoke about Mississippi’s 15-week ban.
The End of the Viability Line If the Supreme Court lets Mississippi ban abortion at 15 weeks, before fetal viability, much more than that will be lost.
The Texas Abortion Ban Could Lose at the Supreme Court Justices sound skeptical of the law, but the damage has already been done, and it could get worse.
How Do We Investigate Sexual Offenses Fairly? If you care about sexual violence, you have to care about due process, argues the lawyer and activist Alexandra Brodsky.
on the market
Sept. 27, 2021
You Can Now Buy Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s “Dinner Party-Gate” House The Yale Law professors’ five-bedroom, five-bath New Haven home is listed for $1,080,000.
The Right-Wing Divisions Over Texas’s Abortion Law Not everyone who advocates for strict abortion laws is thrilled. But eventually, everyone in the movement might get what they want.
What’s Next in the Legal Fight Against Texas’s Extreme Abortion Ban A brazenly political court let Texas ban almost all abortions. Politics may be the only thing to stop it.
The Supreme Court’s Stealth Attack on Abortion At best, the justices feel no urgency to stop Texas from violating people’s dominion over their own bodies.
I Drove 8 Hours to (Maybe) Get My Baby the COVID Vaccine Last week, I got an offer to enroll my 14-month-old in a COVID-vaccine trial. My only worry was that I wouldn’t make the appointment in time.
This Is How We Get Our First Woman Governor Cuomo’s singular gift to women may be his getting out of the way.
The Tiger Mom and the Hornet’s Nest For two decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled.
intelligencer chats
May 26, 2021
The Radicalism of the Abortion Law the Supreme Court Took Up Chief Justice Roberts is thought to favor an incremental-change model. This is far from that.
Breast-Milk Scrambled Eggs Will Not Protect Your Baby From COVID These women were vaccinated and breastfeeding. So why did their babies get COVID?
Remember the Office? A look back at 150 years of cubicles, corner offices, all-nighters, and the holiday party.
What It Was Like to Work for Ruth Bader Ginsburg “We hired a college student to take care of the babies during the day. We had playpens and cribs and baby carriages.”
intelligencer chats
Mar. 31, 2021
Biden’s Promising Opening Move in the Court Wars The president’s list of judicial nominees shows that Democrats have learned some lessons from the GOP.
The Smearing of Kristen Clarke Clarke could become the first Black woman to run the DOJ’s civil rights division. She’s in Fox News’s crosshairs.
atlanta shootings
Mar. 18, 2021
Suspects Don’t Get to Decide If They Committed a Hate Crime “I know of no intersectional hate-crimes case,” says one expert. But that may be what we need.
new york scenes
Mar. 9, 2021
The First 13 Days Revisiting the early confusion of March 2020.
coronavirus
Feb. 26, 2021
I Was a COVID-Vaccine-Site Bouncer The city tried to build a COVID volunteer corps. The system wasn’t prepared for the demand.
intelligencer chats
Feb. 9, 2021
Will Stephen Breyer Take One for the Team? Liberals are (finally) focusing more attention on the courts — and putting pressure on a justice to retire while the retiring’s good.
Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor The once-maligned justice has taken up the mantle of RBG and Thurgood Marshall. But what can she accomplish on the most conservative court in decades?
More Articles