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Even though there are fewer restrictions, what challenges do you face in New York? New York’s not perfect. We have some gestational age cut-off laws. It’s 24 weeks in New York. That’s problematic because for fetal anomalies, most ultrasounds are not done until 20 or 22 weeks. So if you were to...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my upcoming abortion. Then, the day after the post went up, I had an abortion. I received hundreds of emails in response to my piece, some harsh and cruel but most supportive and kind. The majority of the messages showed up in my inbox within hours of the...

You asked "Do partial birth abortions kill human beings?" I replied "According to the SCOTUS in Gonzales v Carhart, if it does not meet the requirements of the Partial Birth Abortion Act, then yes." Why do you go on with this?

A final, often overlooked, element was critical in the 20th century’s making of the hydrocarbon middle-class family: the political and economic power of carbon-based workers. Workers in many industries, from longshoring to the needle trades, fought the long battle to organize unions and improve...

How the same things that contributed to the rise of the middle class are also now leading to its downfall Houses, cars, and children. For a century, they have defined the family economy, and they have driven the national economy. They organize our lives and shape our debts. Their presence all...

No, you're looking for a means of rationalizing what you already believe. There's nothing I could say that would prompt some sort of epiphany on your part. Believe what you like. Makes no difference to me.

I've provided a number of examples, and the responses have been not unlike AAA's above. "That's not the way things are 'these days'". "Racial discrimination is a thing of the past", as they then characterize negroes as lazy, shiftless, good-for-nothing thugs/sluts/etc (the cognitive dissonance...

If by "it" you mean an abortion and it meets the requirements of the Act and of the SCOTUS, then, no, it would not be murder. It's not word games; it's the law.

Excellent article, much too long to post here: As Louisiana Sinks And Sea Levels Rise, The State Is Drowning. Fast. In just 80 years, some 2,000 square miles of its coastal landscape have turned to open water, wiping places off maps, bringing the Gulf of Mexico to the back door of New Orleans...

You say that white privilege is a "made-up construct" and that it "isn't". My experiences are not unlike those that are expressed here and have already been dismissed. If you want to believe that there is no such thing as white privilege, that is your choice.

In the posts I've made here.

“Every fear hides a wish,” as David Mamet wrote in a play about a homophobic white racist who ends up as the submissive prison lover of an African-American man. If much of white America seems possessed by visions of black violence, black rage and black revenge, the wish that lies beneath those...

Why acknowledging white privilege is not surrendering to “white guilt” One commenter on Salon got my attention last week during the furor that followed my essay about “white privilege” as a concept that helps us understand both what actually happened in Ferguson, Missouri, and the racially...

Then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

It's not so much a matter of calling white people racists as it is acknowledging that white privilege exists. Few whites even think about it or are even aware of it.

So it's not the teachers' fault nor the parents' fault; it's the Democrats' fault. OK. Got it.

But I thought that inner-city schools were well-funded, well-staffed, well-supplied, at least according to the posts I've read here. This isn't the case?

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge Friday threw out new Texas abortion restrictions that would have effectively closed more than a dozen clinics statewide in a victory for opponents of tough new anti-abortion laws sweeping across the U.S. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sided with clinics that...

Why am I not surprised that you don't know anything about any of this?